PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON 



For the Year 1884. 



February 6, 1884. 

 J, W. Dunning, Esq., M.A., F.L.S., &g., President, in the chair. 



The President appointed Sir Sidney S. Saunders, Mr. F. P. Pascoe, 

 and Mr. E. Meldola as Vice-Presidents for the year. 



Donations to the Library were announced, and thanks voted to the 

 respective donors. 



Election of Members. 



Edward B. Poulton, Esq., M.A. (Wykeham House, Banbury Road, 

 Oxford), and S. Prout Newcombe, Esq. (Northcote, East Croydon), were 

 balloted for and elected Members of the Society. 



Exhibitions, dc. 

 Mr. P. Crowley exhibited eggs, larval galleries, pupse and images of 

 Castnia eudesmia, Gray. The specimens had been lately received from 

 Valparaiso by Mr. Watkins. The eggs greatly resembled grains of white 

 wheat in size and colour; the larval galleries (so-called cocoons) appeared 

 to consist of silk and sawdust, and were exceedingly tough and hard ; they 

 were from one foot to sixteen inches long and about four inches in circum- 

 ference ; in some instances they were very closely adherent to the spiny leaf 

 of the food-plant (Z^oMJTeiia coarctata); the empty pupa-case protruded from 

 the side of these galleries, after the manner of a Cossus pupa, whicli it 

 much resembled. =:= 



* The metamorphoses of this species have been described and figured by 

 Philippi, Stett. Ent. Zeit., xxiv. (1808), pp. 337— 341, pi. iii.; c/. Westw., Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. (2), i., 104; pi. xxviii., fiys. 1— 4.— [W. F. K.] 



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