7414 Entomological Society. 



Proceedings of Societies. 

 Entomological Sooiett. 



Anniversary Meeting, January 28, 1861. — J. W. Douglas, Esq., President, in 



the chair. 



Election of Officers, SfC. 



Messrs. J. W. Dunning, H. G. Knaggs, R. M'Lachlan and G. R. Waterhouse, 

 were elected members of the Council, in the ruom of Messrs. J. E. Gray, F. Grut, 

 E. Sheppard, and S. J. Wilkinson. 



J. W. Douglas, Esq., was re-elected President; S. Stevens, Esq., Treasurer; aud 

 Messrs. E. Shepherd and E. W. Janson, Secretaries. 



The Report of the Library and Cabinet Committee, made to aud adopted by the 

 Council as their Report to the Society, was read and received. 



The President delivered an Address on the state and future prospects of the 

 Society and entomological Science, for which the Meeting passed a cordial vole of 

 thanks, and ordered it to be printed in the Society's ' Proceedings.' 



A vote of thanks to the retiring Members of the Council was also passed. 



February 4, 1861. — J. W. Douglas, Esq., President, in the chair. 



Donations. 

 The following donations were announced, and thanks ordered to be presented to 

 the donors : — ' Meraoires de la Societe tie Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Geneve,' 

 Tome XV., Deuxieme Partie ; presented by the Society. ' Proceedings of the Royal 

 Society,' Vol. xi. No. 42 ; by the Society. ' Journal of the Proceedings of the Lin- 

 nean Society,' Supplement to Vol. v., Botany ; by the Society. ' Annales de la Societe 

 Enlomologique Beige,' Tome iv. ; by the Society. ' Sulla Monografia del Bombice 

 del Gelso del Dottor Emilio Cornalia, Relazione di Antonio Villa;' ' Osservazioni 

 Zoologiche eseguite durante I'eccHsse parziale di sole del 18 Juglio, 1860, communi- 

 cate dal Socio Antonio Villa;' ' Straordinaria apparizione di insetti carnivori, di An- 

 tonio Villa ;' ' Sui Curculioniti dell'agro Pavese enumerati dal Dottor Prada, Relazione 

 letta nella seduta 18 Decembre, 1859, della Societa Geologica in Milano dal socio 

 fondatore Antonio Villa, Vice-Presidente della Societa Stessa ;' by the Author. ' The 

 Journal of the Society of Arts' for January; by the Society. ' The Farm and Garden,' 

 Nos. 23 and 24 ; by C. A. Wilson. ' The Zoologist' for February ; by the Editor. 

 ' The Athenaeum' for January ; by the Editor. ' The Entomologist's Weekly Intelli- 

 gencer,' Nos. 223 to 226 inclusive ; by H. T. Staiuton, Esq. 



Election of a Subscriber. 

 Joseph Holdsworth, Esq., of 54, Lombard Street, London, was balloted for and 

 elected a Subscriber to the Society. 



Exhibitions. 

 Mr. Janson exhibited a specimen of Philonthus puncliventris, Kraatz (' Naturgis- 

 chichte der Insecten Deutschlands,' ii. 578, 10; 1857), aud made the following obser- 

 vations respecting the species : — 



