ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. XXIX 



Qth December, 1847. 

 W. Spence, Esq., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



Donations. 



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The System of Nature. Presented by E. Newman, Esq., F.L.S., 

 the Author thereof. 



Mr. W. Wing, of 44, Dorset Street, Portman Square, was elected 

 a Member of the Society. 



Exhibitions, Memoirs, &:c. 



Mr. J. W. G. Gutch exhibited collections of Coleoptera from 

 Poland and Servia. 



The Rev. W, Kirby, Honorary President, sent for exhibition 

 specimens of the eggs of Penthalens lapidarms, a mite found in 

 the crevices of stones on commons, and also a drawing of the 

 Penthaleus. 



The President communicated a letter from the Rev. J. B. Mea- 

 dows, of Witnesham, near Ipswich, on the destruction of Green 

 Mazagan Beans by Bruchus granarius ; also on the effect of burnt 

 earth, as a manure, in preventing the attacks of Agrotis Segetum 

 oji the Turnip crops. 



Mr. Westwood said, that he had that evening observed the lumi- 

 nosity of one of the Scolopendridce ; on which Mr. Newport stated, 

 that it was in the latter months of the year, at the period of copula- 

 tion, that this peculiarity is visible. Mr. Westwood also distributed 

 specimens of Rhizohius Helianthemi, an apterous species of the 

 family Aphidce, infesting the tubers of the Jerusalem artichoke. 



Mr. Edleston sent for exhibition some curiously coloured va- 

 rieties of Segetia Xantliographa, Orthosia instabilis, and Cosmia 

 trapetzina. 



Mr. Thompson exhibited a very long thread-like animal, pos- 

 sibly an Entozoon. 



Mr. Westwood read a paper on some new Australian species of 

 Mydas'idce. 



The President read an extract from the Times newspaper on 

 the destruction of the cotton crops in the United States by some 

 unknown species of insect ; whei'eupon a discussion ensued, in 

 which the importance of the subject was alluded to, especially in 

 regard to its influence on the prosperity of our cotton manufac- 

 tures, and the possibility of the insect being introduced into our 



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