Xl PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



5th June, 1848. 

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



Donations. 



Beitrage zur nahernKenntniss derPalingenia longicauda, Olivier, 

 by Professor C. Cornelius. Presented by the Author, 



Linnsea Entomologica, Vol. 3. 



Entomologische Zeitung, for 1848, parts 2, 3 and 4. All pre- 

 sented by the Entomological Society of Stettin. 



Transactions of the Zoological Society, Vol. 3, part 5 ; 



Proceedings of the Zoological Society, for 1847, pp. 107 — 242, 

 and for 1848, pp. 1 — 16. All presented by the Zoological Society. 



Exhibitions, Memoirs, &c. 



Mr. T. V. Wollaston exhibited a very extensive series of insects 

 of all orders, collected by him in Madeira during the past winter 

 and spring. This collection contains many new and remarkable 

 species, especially of Coleoptera, and is the most extensive ever 

 brought from that island. 



Mr. Stevens exhibited a small box of insects recently taken in 

 the Isle of Wight, including specimens of Drypta ernarginata, 

 ^gratis cinerea, two new species of Anacamj)sis, &c. ; also speci- 

 mens of Endromis versicolora from Sussex, and numerous insects 

 captured in the New Forest, near Lyndhurst, including Cleora 

 cinctaria, Chlorissa viridaria, and the species of Psyche described 

 by Curtis under the name of Penthophora nigricans. The speci- 

 mens of the last named insect were reared from cocoons found on 

 heath and gorse in the neighbourhood of Ringwood and Lyndhurst. 

 Mr. Stevens remarked that the males invariably emerged from the 

 pupa between the hours of five and seven p.m., and that one evening 

 great numbers of males were attracted by a female just emerged 

 from the pupa, in one of his breeding cages, in a garden at a great 

 distance from the heath where they are found. The female, which 

 has only rudiments of legs, does not leave the cocoon until after 

 she has deposited her eggs therein. 



Mr. E. Doubleday exhibited specimens of Zegris Eupheme, 

 Colias Aurora, and other rare European Lepidoptera ; also a spe- 

 cimen of Hehomoia Leucippe ; of a new Rhodocera from Nepaul, 

 allied to Rh. Vcrhuellii, for which he proposed the name of Rh. 

 IVallichii, after its discoverer Dr. Wallich ; also the male of Actias 

 Mcenas, remarkable for the extreme length of the tails of the 

 posterior wings. (Tab. XV. fig, 1.) 



