ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. XXXI 



7th Februartj, 1848. 

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



Donations. 



Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France, 2nd Series, 

 Vol. 4 and Vol. 5, parts 1 — 3. Presented by that Society. 



Linnsea Entomologica, Vol. 2 ; 



Entomologische Zeitung, for 1847. Both presented by the 

 Entomological Society of Stettin. 



Entoraographie de la Russie, Vol. 4. Presented by Dr. 

 Fischer de Waldheim, the Author thereof. 



The Athenaeum for November and December, 1 847. Presented 

 by the Editor. 



On the Study of Natural History as a Branch of Education. 

 Presented by R. Paterson, Esq., the Author thereof. 



Annales des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles, publiees par la 

 Societe Royale d'Agriculture et d'Histoire Naturelle de Lyon, 

 Vol. 9. Presented by that Society. 



Exhibitions, Memoirs, &c. 



Mr. W. W. Saunders exhibited a series of Coleoptera from 

 Mexico, amongst which were some very beautiful and interesting 

 new species and generic forms. Mr. Westwood remarked, that it 

 would be very important to obtain correct information as to the 

 localities in which they had been collected, as so large a portion of 

 them differed both from those of the collection made in Mexico 

 by Mr. Coffin and those described by M. Chevrolat. Mr. Saun- 

 ders believed that they were chiefly from the higher regions, but 

 the person by whom the collection was made being dead he feared 

 it was not possible now to obtain the desired information. Mr. 

 E. Doubleday remarked, that the Lepidoptera in the collection 

 closely resembled those brought from the neighbourhood of Oajaca 

 by Mr. Hartweg, now in the British Museum. 



Mr. S. Stevens exhibited a specimen of Nephojiteryx angus- 

 tella, Zeller, a moth new to Britain, which had been taken near 

 Darenth Wood in September last. 



Mr. A. H. Haliday read a paper in support of Dr. Erichson's 

 conjecture, that the animal discovered by Mr. Hogg on the fresh 

 water sponge, and described by Mr. Westwood, provisionally, 

 under the name of Branclnotoma Spongillce, may be the larva of 

 Hemcrohius fuscotus, Fabr., for which Dr. Burmeister has insti- 

 tuted the genus Sisyra. After a summary of the details furnished 



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