Ixxxiv PROCEEDINGS OP THE 



1st October, 1849. 

 H. T. Stainton, Esq., in the Chair. 



Donations. 



The following donations were announced, and thanks ordered 

 to be given to the respective Donors thereof. 



Catalogue of the Calcutta Public Library. 



Report of the Librarian of the same, for 1847 and 1848. Pre- 

 sented by the Curators of that library. 



" The Athenaeum," for May, June, July and August. Pre- 

 sented by the Editor. 



Six specimens of Agroph'ila sulphuralis, fro.n Brandon, Suffolk. 

 Presented by Mr. Dunning. 



The following gentlemen were elected Corresponding Members 

 of the Society : 



E. Coding, Esq., M.D., Barbadoes. 



R. B. Walcott, Esq., M.D., Barbadoes. 



Grant Thomas, Esq., Barbadoes. 



Daniel Blair, Esq., Surgeon-General, British Guiana. 



Captain Hamilton, Madras. 



Exhibitions, Memoirs, &c. 



Mr. Stainton exhibited a small species of Thicidce, of remark- 

 able structure, new to Britain, communicated by Mr. Henry 

 Doubleday. 



Mr. Westwood stated, that the species of Aphides found on th^ 

 lettuce, recently described by him under the name of Pemphigus 

 Lactucce, had been previously noticed by Sir O. Mosley in the 

 Gardener's Chronicle, and by the Rev. L. Jenyns in his Obser- 

 vations on Natural History. 



A specimen of Cosmopieri/x pedella, Linn, (angustipennella, 

 Hiibner,) a species of Tineida; new to this country, was exhibited 

 on the part of Mr. Dunning, from Brandon, Suffolk. 



Messrs. Michael, G. Ingall and H. Ingall, having been pre- 

 viously elected Subscribers, signed the obligation-book of the So- 

 ciety, and were admitted by the Chairman. 



Mr. Dallas read the continuation of a paper on the Hemiptera 

 of Boutan, in the East Indies ; and Mr. Westwood read a paper 



