﻿PROCEEDINGS 
  

  

  OF 
  THE 
  

  

  ENTOMOLOGICAL 
  SOCIETY 
  OF 
  LONDON. 
  

  

  1853. 
  

  

  February 
  7, 
  1853. 
  

   Edward 
  Newman, 
  Esq., 
  President, 
  in 
  tlie 
  chair. 
  

  

  The 
  President 
  returned 
  thanks 
  for 
  his 
  election, 
  and 
  nominated 
  as 
  Vice-Presidents, 
  

   W. 
  W. 
  Saunders, 
  Esq., 
  W. 
  Spence, 
  Esq., 
  and 
  J. 
  0. 
  Westwood, 
  Esq. 
  

  

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

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

   January; 
  by 
  the 
  Editor. 
  ' 
  Journal 
  of 
  the 
  Society 
  of 
  Arts,' 
  Nos. 
  1 
  — 
  10; 
  by 
  the 
  So- 
  

   ciety. 
  ' 
  Entomologische 
  Zeitung' 
  for 
  December, 
  1852; 
  ' 
  Linnsea 
  Eutomologica,' 
  

   7 
  Band: 
  Berlin, 
  1852; 
  ' 
  Catalogus 
  Coleopterorum 
  Europse, 
  herausgegeben 
  vom 
  

   Enlomologischen 
  Verein 
  in 
  Stettin 
  :' 
  Vierte 
  Auflage, 
  Berlin, 
  1852; 
  all 
  by 
  the 
  Ento- 
  

   mological 
  Society 
  of 
  Slettin. 
  ' 
  Bericht 
  iiber 
  die 
  wissenchaftlichen 
  Liestungen 
  im 
  

   Gebiete 
  der 
  Entomologie 
  wahrend 
  des 
  Jahres, 
  1850,' 
  von 
  Dr. 
  Herm. 
  Schaum, 
  Berlin, 
  

   1852 
  ; 
  by 
  the 
  Author. 
  ' 
  Description 
  of 
  a 
  New 
  Genus 
  of 
  Calanidae,' 
  by 
  John 
  Lubbock, 
  

   Esq. 
  ; 
  by 
  the 
  Author. 
  ' 
  Memorias 
  de 
  la 
  Academia 
  Real 
  de 
  Ciencias 
  de 
  Madrid,' 
  

   Tomo 
  I. 
  parti 
  2 
  : 
  Madrid, 
  1851 
  ; 
  ' 
  Resumen 
  de 
  las 
  Actas,' 
  1850—51 
  : 
  Madrid, 
  1851 
  ; 
  

   by 
  the 
  Academy. 
  ' 
  Journal 
  of 
  the 
  Royal 
  Agricultural 
  Society 
  of 
  England,' 
  Vol. 
  XIII. 
  

   part 
  2 
  ; 
  by 
  the 
  Society. 
  ' 
  Reports 
  of 
  the 
  Juries 
  of 
  the 
  Exhibition 
  of 
  1851 
  ;' 
  by 
  the 
  

   Commissioners 
  of 
  the 
  Exhibition. 
  A 
  specimen 
  of 
  Glossiua 
  raorsitans 
  ; 
  by 
  Mr. 
  

   Spence. 
  A 
  specimen 
  of 
  the 
  insect-wax 
  of 
  China 
  ; 
  by 
  Mr. 
  D. 
  Hanbury. 
  Specimens 
  

   of 
  Asemum 
  striatum 
  (3), 
  Pissodes 
  Pini 
  (4), 
  Tinea 
  ochraceella, 
  Tengstrom 
  (3), 
  Ela- 
  

   chista 
  locupletella 
  (2) 
  ; 
  by 
  Mr. 
  John 
  Scott, 
  Renfrew. 
  

  

  The 
  following 
  gentlemen 
  were 
  balloted 
  for 
  and 
  elected: 
  John 
  Garland, 
  Esq., 
  

   Dorchester, 
  a 
  Member, 
  and 
  F. 
  T. 
  Hudson, 
  Esq., 
  Greenwich, 
  a 
  Subscriber 
  to 
  the 
  So- 
  

   ciety. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  D. 
  Hanbury 
  brought 
  for 
  exhibition, 
  specimens 
  of 
  the 
  white 
  insect-wax 
  of 
  

   China 
  in 
  its 
  crude 
  state, 
  obtained 
  by 
  the 
  persevering 
  endeavours 
  of 
  his 
  friend, 
  William 
  

   Lockhart, 
  Esq., 
  of 
  Shanghae. 
  The 
  correct 
  Chinese 
  name 
  for 
  this 
  production 
  is 
  

   Chung-pih-la—\\tei-a\\y, 
  insect-white-wax. 
  He 
  read 
  the 
  following 
  particulars 
  respect- 
  

   ing 
  it, 
  and 
  the 
  insect 
  by 
  which 
  it 
  is 
  produced, 
  from 
  a 
  paper 
  by 
  Dr. 
  Macgowan 
  in 
  the 
  

   'Journal 
  of 
  the 
  Horticultural 
  and 
  Agricultural 
  Society 
  of 
  India,' 
  1850. 
  

  

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