Proceedings of Societies. - 



Entomological Society. 

 April 7, lb6'2.— F. Smith, Esq., President, in the chair. 



Donations, Sj-c. 



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

 donors : — ' The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London,' Vol. xxiii. Part 2 ; 

 presented by the Society. ' Kongliga Svenska Fregatten Eugenics Resa omking 

 Jorden under befal af C. A. Virfiin aren 1851 — 1853, Insekter,' Parts 4 and 5; by 

 the Kongl. Svenska Akademien i Stockholm. ' Notes on the Generative Or^ians, and 

 on the Formation of the Egg in the Annulosa,' by John Lubbock, Esq., F.R.S. ; by 

 the Author. ' The Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England,' Vol. xxii. 

 Part 2; by the Society. ' Exotic Butterflies,' Part 42 ; by W.W.Saunders, Esq., F.R.S., 

 &c. ' Sitzungsberichte der Konigl. bayer. Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Miin- 

 chen,' 1861, ii. Hefl 2 ; by the Academy. ' The Canadian Naturalist and Geologist,' 

 Vol. vii. No. 1 ; by the Natural History Society of Montreal. ' The Zoologist' for 

 April ; by the Kditor. ' The Proceedings of the Royal Society,' Vol. xi. No. 48 ; by 

 the Society. ' The Intellectual Observer,' No. 3 ; by the publishers, Messrs. Groom- 

 bridge & Sons. 'Catalogus Coleopterorum Europae auctore H.Schaum, Editiosecunda 

 aucta etemendata ;' by the Author. ' TheAthenseum' for March; by the Editor. 'The 

 Literary Gazette' for March ; by the Editor. ' The London Review' for March; by 

 the Editor. ' The Journal of the Society of Arts' for March ; by the Society. ' Stelliner 

 Eutomolo;;iscbe Zeitung.' 1862, Nos. 1—3; by the Society ' A List of British He- 

 miptera (Heleroptera), with Allied Species found in Northern and Central Europe 

 which may be expected to occur in Britain,' by J. W. Douglas and John Scott; by 

 the Authors. ' List of the Specimens of Lepidojiterous Insects in the Collection of 

 the British Museum,' by Francis Walker, F.L.S., Part XXIV., Georaetiites (con- 

 tinued) ; by the Author. * Naturhislorisk Tidoskrift stiflet af Henrik Kroyer udgivet 

 af Prof. J. C. Shiroate;' by the Editor. 



The following addition to the Library, by purchase, was also announced : — ' Rho- 

 palocera Africae Australis ; a Catalogue of South African Butterflies, comprising De- 

 scriptions of all the known Species, with Notices of their Larva, Pupae, Localities, 

 Habits, Seasons of Appearance, and Geographical Distrii)ution,' by Roland Trimen, 

 M.E.S.L., Part I., Papilionidae, Pieridae, Danaidae, Acrseidae and Nyraphalidae. 



Certificates in favour of W. H. L. Walcolt, Esq., of 11, Vyvyan Terrace, Clifton, 

 Bristol, and David Sharp, Esq., of 14, Newcastle Street, Strand, as Members of the 

 Society, were read a first time, and ordered to be suspended in the Meeting Room. 

 Certificates in favour of George Robert Gray, Esq., the Rev. T. H. Browne, and 

 Alfred Haward, Esq., were read a second lime. 



Exhibitions. 



Mr. Stevens exhibited a box of Coleoptera and Lepidoptera from the Cape of 

 Good Hoi-ie, and a specimen of Bryaxis Lefebvrei taken some years ago in the North 

 of England, probably in Cumberland. 



