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THE 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON 



FOa THE YEAK 



1868. 



February 3, 1868. 



H. W. Bates, Esq., F.Z.S., President, in the chair. 



The President, after thanking the Society for the honour conferred upon him by his 

 election to the chair, nominated as Vice-Presidents, Sir John Lubbock, Mr. W. 

 Wilson Saunders, and Mr. Stainton. 



Donations to the Library/. 

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

 ' Proceedings of the Eoyal Society,' Nos. 93 — 97 ; presented by the Society. ' Abhand- 

 lungen berausgegeben vom naturwiss. Vereine zu Bremen,' vol. i. part 2; by the 

 Society. ' Coleoptera Flesperidum, being an Enumeration of the Coleopterous Insects 

 of the Cape Verde Archipelago,' by T, V. WoUaston ; by the Author. Newman's 

 'British Moths,' No. 14; by the Author. 'The Zoologist' for February; by the 

 Editor. 'The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine' for February; by the Editors. 



Exhibitions, ^-c. 



Mr. Bond exhibited a female specimen of Drilus flavescens, the second specimen 

 of that sex, he believed, which had been found in this country. Ou the 1st of April, 

 1867, Mr. J. E. Harting was collecting shells on the South Downs at Havting, Sussex, 

 and the Drilus was discovered in a shell of Helix ericetorum. The larva has for some 

 time been known to live in snail shells (see Proc. Ent. Soc. 1858, p. 9), and Mr. Bond 

 suggested that the female had been hatched in the shell in which it was discovered, 

 and had never quitted it until disturbed by Mr. Harting. 



Mr. Bond exhibited larva-skins of a species of Dermestes, which he was at first 

 informed had not only destroyed the bladder-coverings of sixty pots of preserved fruits, 

 but had also eaten a considerable portion of the contents ; but on further inquiry it 

 turned out the larvag had not in this case eaten any of the fruit, but merely damaged 

 the surface, which was covered with larva-skins and " what appeared to be powder or 

 small eggs.'' Mr. Newman, however, had inlbrgied Mr. Bond that a city house had 

 recently sustained great loss from the same insect: in this instance the pots of jam 

 were covered with paper only, not with skin, and the larvae had actually consumed part 

 of the contents, and rendered the whole worthless. 



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