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July 4, 1883. 

 Prof. J. O. Westwood, M.A., F.L.S , &c, Hon. Life- President, in the chair. 



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

 respective donors. 



Election of a Member. 



A. Eland Shaw, Esq. (92, Elgin Road, Harrow Road, W.), was balloted 

 for and elected a Member of the Society. 



Exhibitions, dc. 



Mr. R. M'Lachlan exhibited specimens of Phylloxera vastatrix, Planch., 

 from the roots of vines belonging to Mr. J. E.Lightfoot, Mayor of Accrington. 



Prof. Westwood remarked that he became acquainted with the Phylloxera 

 in Britain as long ago as 1862, and that on November 25th, 1867, he 

 described and figured this insect, at a meeting of the Ashmolean Society 

 in Oxford, under the name of Peritymbia vitisana, which name (had the 

 Proceedings of the Ashmolean Society been regularly published) would have 

 had priority over M. Planchon's Rhizaphis vastatrix. 



Miss E. A. Ormerod exhibited a bunch of Atherix Ibis, Fabr., found on 

 a sprig of alder overhanging water at Hampton Court by Mr. J. Arkwright. 

 The swarm of flies measured about 6 in. long by 3 in. broad, and consisted 

 of many thousand specimens. 



Mr. E. A. Fitch called attention to the figure of a similar swarm of this 

 species in the ' Compte-rendu ' of the Societe Entomologique de Belgique 

 for July 4th, 1874. 



M r. W. L. Distant exhibited specimens of four of the five known species 

 of American Fidgoridce. Three were from Central America. 



Mr. Gr. C. Champion stated that in Central America he had kept forty 

 or fifty specimens alive for days, and had seen no trace of luminosity, 

 neither did they stridulate ; the evidence of the natives also was quite 

 against these insects being luminous. The Fulgorida were very sluggish 

 in their habits, Mr. Champion observiug that he commonly fouud specimens 

 on the trunks, where they sometimes remained for days; he had never 

 seen a specimen on the wing. Mr. Champion also related that he had not 

 infrequently found larvae attached to and feeding on the white cottony 

 secretion so abundant about some of the smaller Fulgoridce. ; he had found 

 as many as three larvae attached to one imago. 



Prof. Westwood commented on the great interest of this last announce- 

 ment, remarking that the three cases of lepidopterous parasitism on the 

 Fidgorida already recorded by him (Trans. Ent. Soc. Loud. 1876, p. 519 ; 

 1877, p. 433) occurred on eastern species. He was glad to hear that 



