ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. XXXiii 



Exhibitions, Memoirs, &c. 

 Mr. White exhibited a box of insects from Hong Kong, where 

 they had been collected by J. C. Bowring, Esq., corresponding 

 member of the Society. Mr. White pointed out some new species 

 amongst the Cicindelidce, Carabidce, Chalcididce, and other groups. 

 Mr. Doubleday called attention to a new species of Leptocircus, 

 and some other Lepidoptera either new or rare. 



A letter from Mr. Bowring was subsequently read, containing 

 much information on the habits of some of the insects contained 

 in the box. 



Mr. Westwood exhibited a box containing above forty speci- 

 mens of the Dipterous family Neviestrinidce, belonging to nearly 

 thirty species, the greater portion of them are new and from New 

 South Wales. They were from his own collection and those of 

 Messrs. Saunders and Hope. 



Mr. Evans exhibited the pupa case of a small male specimen 

 of Diaphonia frontalis, an Australian species of the Cetoniadce. 

 This specimen, which was found in the rotten stump of a gum 

 tree, was from the collection of the Rev. F. W. Hope. 



Mr. Saunders exhibited some interesting insects from Port 

 Philip, Australia. 



A letter was read from Mr. H. E. Newman, stating that he had 

 captured a pair of the common wasp actually in coitu, and had 

 preserved the specimens in that condition, and would forward 

 them to the Society. 



A letter was read from M. F. Sachse, 30, Trinity Square, 

 Borough, in which that gentlemen offered to become the medium 

 of communication between the Entomological Society of London 

 and Stettin, and between the members thereof individually. 



Mr. J. W. Douglas read a " Note on a remarkable variety of 

 Segetia Xanthographa." 



The President read an extract from a letter addressed to 

 G. H, K. Thvvaites, Esq., by a gentleman resident in South 

 Australia, relative to an insect which had destroyed the potatoes 

 there. The writer says, " the fly which destroyed the potatoe 

 crop was a small white tree bug, with transparent wings, not half 

 the size of the common house-fly. They ate up all the tops of 

 the potatoes, so that there was not a leaf to be seen, and of course 

 the roots were useless where they attacked them in the early 

 state." 



The President read an extract from a letter addressed by J. A. 

 Turner, Esq., of Manchester, to Dr. Royle, relative to the insect 



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