PROCEEDINGS 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON 



FOR THE TEAR 



1870. 



7 February, 1870. 

 Alfred R. Wallace, Esq., F.Z.S., &c.. President, in the chair. 



Mr. Wallace expressed his thanks to the Society for electing him to succeed 

 Mr. Bates in the oflfice of President ; and nominated as his Vice-Presidents for 

 the year, Mr. Bates, Major Parry, and Mr. Pascoe. 



Additions to the Library. 



The following donations were announced, and thanks voted to the donors : — 

 ' Horse Societatis Entomologicse Rossicae,' vols. iii. — vi. ; presented by the 

 Society. * Bullettino della Societa Entomologica Italiana,' vol. i. part 4 ; by 

 the Society. ' Journal of the Linnean Society,' Zoology, No. 47 ; by the 

 Society. ' Journal of the Quekett Microscopical Club,' No. 9 ; by the Club. 

 Hewitson's * Exotic Butterflies,' No. 73 ; by W. W. Saunders, Esq. Newman's 

 ' Entomologist,' vol. iv. ; by the Editor. ' La Phylloxera et la nouvelle maladie 

 de la Vigne,' by J. E. Planchon and J. Lichtenstein ; by the Authors. 



By purchase : — ' The Record of Zoological Literature,' 1868 (the entomo- 

 logical part); Gemminger and Harold, ' Catalogus Coleopterorum,' vol. vi. 



Prize Essays. 

 It was announced that the Council offered tw© Prizes of the value of Five 

 Guineas each to the Authors (whether Members of the Society or not) of 

 Essays, of sufl&cient merit and drawn up from personal observation, on the 

 Anatomy or Economy of any insect or group of insects. The Essays must be 

 sent to the Secretarv, at 1 2, Bedford Row, indorsed with mottoes, on or before 



