PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON 
For tHE Year 1881. 
February 2, 1881. 
H. T. Starnron, Esq., F.R.S., &c., President, in the chair. 
Donations to the Library were announced, and thanks voted to the 
respective donors. 
The President made some prefatory remarks, thanking the Society 
for electing him to that office. He nominated Sir John Lubbock, Bart., 
Mr. R. Meldola, and Mr. W. L. Distant as Vice-Presidents for the ensuing 
year. 
Election of Members. 
Mr. Alfred Lloyd, F.C.S. (Dome House, Upper Bognor), and Mr. 
Theodore Wood (5, Selwyn Terrace, Jasper Road, Upper Norwood), were 
balloted for and elected Ordinary Members of the Society. 
Exhibitions, de. 
Mr. O. Salvin exhibited two large boxes of Insects of all Orders, collected 
on the Altos and Pacific coast of Guatemala by Mr. Champion. ‘These had 
but just arrived, and had not yet been critically examined. 
Mr. W. A. Forbes exhibited a curious filamentous growth upon a leaf 
from New Britain, due to the presence of one of the Coccide ; also the larva 
of one of the Blattide from Pernambuco, North Brazil, which was remarkable 
for its superficial resemblance to an Isopod crustacean. These larve were 
common under the bark of trees in damp woods. 
Mr. R. M‘Lachlan exhibited two examples of the fungoid parasites of 
insects. Firstly, a Spha@ria (Cordyceps) attacking a larva from South America, 
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