XXVI PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



Ath October, 1847. 

 W. Yarrell, Esq. F.Z.S. &c., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Donations. 



Dei Vantaggi che I'Agricoltiira piio recevare dallo Studio dell' 

 Entomologia. Presented by Signer C. Passerini, Hon. M.E.S., 

 the author tliereof. 



Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, Nos. 167—1 77; 



Report and Lists of the Members of the same Society for 1847. 

 Presented by that Society. 



Report of the Dublin University Museum. Presented by the 

 Committee. 



A portrait of the Dipterologist, J. W. Meigen. Presented by 

 M. Foerster, of Aix-la-Chapelle. 



A specimen o? Sirex gigas $, taken at Dorking. Presented by 

 Mr. Moore, jun. 



Exhibitions, Memoirs, &c. 



Mr. Samuel Stevens exhibited a living specimen o£ Locusta mi- 

 gratoria, captured at Hammersmith. 



Mr. Courtney exhibited a box of British Lepidoptera, including 

 several rare species. 



Mr. Bedell exhibited a box containing a very extensive series 

 oi Microlep)idoj)tera, including two new species, Microsetia irian- 

 gulella, found on trunks of oaks at West Wyckham Wood, in 

 June, 1847, and Microsetia mandella. 



Mr. Westwood exhibited specimens of drawings of some new 

 exotic Cetoniidce, from the collections of Colonel Hearsey, Cap- 

 tain Boys, and Mr. Benson ; also some Lepidoptera, from Cape 

 Palmas, including a new species of Saturnia, and a new allied 

 genus. 



Mr. F. Bond exhibited two specimens of Locusta migratoria, 

 taken at Duxford, and near York, in August and September ; also 

 a specimen of Bupreslis {Ancylocheira^ viauritanica, Lucas, Voy. 

 d'AJgerie, taken alive on an oak post, in Plaistow Marshes, on the 

 9th September last. 



Mr. A. White read some extracts from notes on the habits of 

 exotic spiders, observed by Mr. Arthur Adams, intended for pub- 

 lication in the Appendix of Belcher's Voyage. 



Mr. Westwood read the description of Nemoptera Huttii, from 

 Western Australia. 



" It is very difficult to conceive what can be the object of the 

 singularly modified hind- wings in the genus Nemoptera, in some of 

 which they are extraordinarily elongated, and scarcely wider than 



