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ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 289 



M. Graslin. " Memoir, with descriptions of Chelonia 

 verecunda, Zygoma Europwa, Thanoas Cervantes, Ckophana 

 Cyclopea, Ophiusa nubilaris and Orgyia Zoraida. 



M. de Waga, Professor of Natural History at Warsaw, 

 having been proposed by M. de Theys, was admitted a member 

 of the Society. 



M. Bouchard Chanterreaux, having been proposed by 

 -. Serville, was admitted a member of the Society. 



Art. XL I. — Proceedings of the Entomological Society of 

 London. 



Sitting of the 5th December, 1836. 



Rev. F. W. Hope in the Chair. 



The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed: — 



A list of donations, from various British and Foreign Societies 

 and individuals, was read; and thanks voted to the respective 

 donors. 



Mr. Yarrell exhibited the larvae of Agrotis Segetum, 

 received from near Walden, in Essex. He said it was stated to 

 be as destructive to the turnip as the fly ; eating into the bulb 

 of the root, and entirely destroying whole crops. Mr. Hope, 

 in some subsequent observations, mentioned the occurrence of 

 the same in great numbers in Shropshire and Herefordshire. 



Mr. Westwood exhibited the nest of a Vespa, from which 

 he had taken a specimen of the insect, with a parasite. The 

 nest had a circular hole penetrating through the centre, which 

 he supposed to be a common gangway; and that, when occasion 

 required, the insects effected an enlargement of their nest by 

 accretions ranged round the hole, working from the inside. 



Mr. Westwood exhibited an original letter of Linnaeus to 

 the late Mr. Drury. 



