﻿PKOCEE 
  DINGS 
  

  

  OF 
  THE 
  

  

  ENTOMOLOGICAL 
  SOCIETY 
  OF 
  LOiNDON. 
  

  

  1852. 
  

  

  February 
  2, 
  1852. 
  

   J. 
  O. 
  Westwood, 
  Esq., 
  President, 
  in 
  the 
  chair. 
  

  

  The 
  following 
  donations 
  were 
  announced, 
  and 
  thanks 
  ordered 
  to 
  he 
  given 
  to 
  the 
  

   donors: 
  — 
  The 
  ' 
  Zoologist' 
  for 
  February 
  ; 
  by 
  the 
  Editor. 
  The 
  ' 
  Literary 
  Gazette' 
  for 
  

   January 
  ; 
  by 
  the 
  Publishers. 
  'Revue 
  et 
  Magasin 
  de 
  Zoologie,' 
  1851, 
  Nos. 
  1 
  to 
  10; 
  

   by 
  M.Guerin 
  Meneville. 
  ' 
  Insecta 
  Britannica' 
  — 
  Dipteva, 
  Vol. 
  i. 
  ; 
  by 
  the 
  Publishers. 
  

   ' 
  Entomologische 
  Zeitung' 
  for 
  December 
  and 
  January 
  ; 
  by 
  the 
  Entomological 
  Society 
  

   of 
  Stettin. 
  ' 
  Journal 
  of 
  the 
  Royal 
  Agricultural 
  Society 
  of 
  England,' 
  Vol. 
  xx.. 
  Part 
  2 
  ; 
  

   by 
  the 
  Society. 
  ' 
  Synopsis 
  of 
  the 
  Cleridae 
  of 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  ;' 
  ' 
  On 
  the 
  Pselaphidae 
  

   of 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  ;' 
  ' 
  Descriptions 
  of 
  new 
  species 
  of 
  Coleoptera 
  from 
  California 
  ;' 
  

   'An 
  Attempt 
  to 
  Classify 
  the 
  Longicorn 
  Coleoptera 
  of 
  the 
  part 
  of 
  America 
  north 
  of 
  

   Mexico;' 
  all 
  by 
  John 
  L. 
  Le 
  Conte, 
  M.D., 
  and 
  presented 
  by 
  the 
  Author. 
  Three 
  spe- 
  

   cimens 
  of 
  a 
  species 
  of 
  Bostrichus 
  that 
  feeds 
  on 
  Chinese 
  bamboo 
  cane 
  ; 
  by 
  Mr. 
  

   Bowring. 
  Phyllosoma 
  clavicorne, 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  glass-shrimps, 
  captured 
  at 
  sea, 
  on 
  the 
  

   passage 
  from 
  Central 
  America 
  to 
  the 
  South 
  Pacific 
  ; 
  Zopherus 
  mexicanus, 
  caught 
  on 
  

   an 
  island 
  in 
  the 
  bay 
  of 
  Fonseca, 
  St. 
  Salvador, 
  and 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  Mutillidas 
  ; 
  all 
  presented 
  

   by 
  Miss 
  Elizabeth 
  Hornby. 
  A 
  collection 
  of 
  insects 
  of 
  all 
  orders, 
  from 
  Shanghae 
  ; 
  

   presented 
  by 
  Professor 
  Thompson 
  of 
  Glasgow, 
  through 
  Dr. 
  Carpenter. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  F. 
  Cox, 
  of 
  Van 
  Diemen's 
  Land, 
  was 
  elected 
  a 
  Corresponding 
  Member 
  of 
  the 
  

   Society. 
  

  

  The 
  President 
  appointed 
  Messrs. 
  John 
  Curtis, 
  J. 
  F. 
  Stephens, 
  and 
  H. 
  T. 
  Stainton, 
  

   Vice-Presidents 
  for 
  the 
  year. 
  

  

  The 
  President 
  read 
  the 
  following 
  note 
  from 
  Mr. 
  Spence, 
  and 
  exhibited 
  the 
  vase 
  

   and 
  insects 
  referred 
  to 
  ; 
  the 
  latter 
  appear 
  to 
  be 
  an 
  undescribed 
  species. 
  

  

  "18, 
  Lower 
  Seymour 
  Street, 
  

  

  " 
  February 
  2, 
  1852. 
  

   i 
  " 
  My 
  dear 
  Sir, 
  

  

  ' 
  " 
  I 
  beg 
  to 
  send 
  from 
  Mr. 
  E. 
  A. 
  Bowring, 
  of 
  the 
  Board 
  of 
  Trade, 
  for 
  the 
  in- 
  

  

  spection 
  of 
  the 
  Society, 
  a 
  Chinese 
  carved 
  vessel 
  or 
  vase 
  of 
  bamboo, 
  the 
  interior 
  of 
  

   which 
  has 
  been 
  much 
  injured 
  by 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  minute 
  Bostrichidae, 
  of 
  which 
  specimens 
  

   are 
  gummed 
  on 
  the 
  card 
  in 
  the 
  box 
  enclosed 
  herewith, 
  and 
  of 
  which 
  Mr. 
  Bowring 
  

  

  