7534 Entomological Society. 



Proceedings of Societies. 



Entomological Society. 



April 1, 1861. — J. W. Douglas, Esq., Piesideul, iii the chair. 



Donations. 

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

 the donors : — ' Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge,' Vol. xi. ; ' Inslructions in 

 reference to collecting Nests and Eggs of North-American Birds ,' ' Catalogue of ihe 

 described Lepidoptera of North America,' prepared for the Smithsonian Institution by 

 John G. Morris ; presented by the Smithsonian Iiistiiulion. ' New Genera and Spe- 

 cies of North" American Tipulidse with short Palpi, with an Attempt at a new Classi- 

 fication of the Tribe,' by Baron R. von Osten-Sacken ;' by the Author. ' Journal of 

 the Proceedings of the Linnean Society,' Vol. v. No. 19; by the Society. Leydig's 

 'Natural History of the Daphnidae — Reviewed by J. Lubbock, Esq.'; by the Author. 

 ' On Sphaerularia Bombi,' by John Lubbock, F.R.S., F.L.S., F.G.S. ; by the Author. 

 ' Exolic Butterflies,' Part 38 ; by W. W. SaundcBB) Esq. ' The Zoologist' for April ; 

 by the Editor. ' The Journal of the Society of Arls ' for March by the Society. ' The 

 Entomologist's Weekly Intelligencer,' Nos. 231 to 233 ; by H. T. Stainton, Esq. 



Election of a Subscriber. 

 Aaron Solomons, Esq., of 16, Pownall Road, Dalston, was elected a Subscriber to 

 the Society. 



Exhibitions. 



Mr. F. Smith exhibited a nnmber of Myrmedonia funesta and other Coleoptera, 

 found in a nest of Formica fuliginosa at Earith. 



Mr. Fereday exhibited some specimens of Nausibius dentatus, Marsham, bred 

 from the fruit of Dimocarpus Litchi of China. 



Dr. Knaggs exhibited a small mutilated larva, apparently lepidopterous, respecting 

 which he communicated the following : — 



" A medical friend was called to see a child, ten years of age, who was sufiTering 

 from vomiting of blood and passage of blood by stool. On examination of the 

 pharynx he observed that blood was trickling from the posterior nostrils ; during the 

 examination the child expressed an inclination to sneeze, upon which a white 

 pocket handkerchief was applied, in order to see if any blood was thereby 

 ejected ; there was, however, nothing but mucus and the small larva produced, which 

 was alive at the time, but had since been crushed by accident." Dr. Knaggs observed 

 that instances of insects being ejected from the nostrils by sneezing had been pre- 

 viously recorded in the ' Proceedings' of the Society. The injured larva he now exhi- 

 bited was probably that of Endrosis fenestrella, a very common species everywhere in 

 houses ; and he considered it not impossible that it was on the handkerchief before the 

 sneezing took place. 



Mr. M'Lachlan exhibited specimens of a trichojiterous insect new to Britain, the 

 Goniotaulius concentricus, Kolenali, not Phryganea coucentrica, Zett.; Stenophylax 

 vibex, Brauer, not of Curtis. Of this species about a dozen specimens were taken in 

 1860, near Rauworlh, by Mr. Winter ; it is a common species on the Continent, and 



