Xlviii PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



Exhibitions, Memoirs, &c. 



Mr. J. F. Stephens exhibited a specimen of fir timber, from 

 Charing, in Kent, perforated obliquely downwards by Sirex gigas 

 and Sirex juvencus ; and stated that the perfect insects had made 

 their appearance throughout the months of June, July, August, 

 and September. 



Mr. J. J. Weir exhibited specimens of Cynceda dental'is, taken 

 by himself at Lewes ; also a box, containing numerous species of 

 Lepidoptera, some of them rare, beaten from the thatch of an out- 

 building, their winter quarters, 



Mr. Wollaston exhibited a box of Coleoptera collected in the 

 neighbourhood of Colombo, Ceylon, amongst which were many 

 rare species. 



Mr. S. Stevens exhibited a box, containing many species of 

 Coleoptera, rare in Britain, amongst which were Lixus bicolor, 

 Hypera fnsciculosa, Platyonomus mixtus, all found on Erodium 

 cicularium ; also Lixus angustatus, Sitona Waterhousei, Acalles ro- 

 boris, and a species of Lehia, believed to be undescribed, found 

 near Deal ; also specimens of amber, containing insects found on 

 the sea-shore at Deal and Hastings. 



The Secretary read a letter from Mr. Jacques, stating that he 

 had captured twenty-one specimens of Lamia textor near Bristol, 

 that he believed to be a nocturnal insect, never having met with 

 it before 7 p.m., and that he had taken the specimens mentioned 

 by examining the branches of willows after dark. 



The following extract of a letter from W. Thompson, Esq., of 

 Belfast, on the habits o^ Aleyrodes Phlllyrece was read: — 



" Although you are not to expect any thing entomological from 

 me, I may mention my being lately attracted by the beautiful 

 Aleyrodes Phillyrecs, Having remarked from a little distance the 

 very lucid and even black appearance of a fine large plant of 

 Pliillyrea latifoUa, I went to ascertain the cause, and found hosts 

 of this beautiful creature on the under side of the leaves, to which 

 only the perfect insect, as well as in its other stages, was attached, 

 just after the manner o^ Aphides. If you have not seen the spe- 

 cies, you can imagine the beautiful sight afforded on my shaking 

 the plant, when hundreds of minute moths (as it were), not ex- 

 ceeding a line and a half in length, and of a snowy whiteness, 

 hovered over the gloomy PhiUyrea. I visited the plant yester- 

 day, and found the Aleyrodes just as I had seen it a month before. 

 The PhiUyrea however was the worse, a few of the leaves being 



