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necessity of tunnels or under-ground passages to the trees and patches of herbaceous 

 plants that yield the leaves upon which they subsist. The excavations someiiuies 

 extend outwards 400 or 500 yards. To allow suflBcient space for carrying a piece of 

 leaf through it as wide as a dime, or sometimes larger, the tunnel is generally an inch 

 in diameter, terminating most commonly under a shady tree, or in a garden or corn 

 field. When they enter a garden in this way they seldom fail to ruin it, all kinds of 

 fruit trees, flowering shrubs and garden vegetables being trimmed of their leaves." — 

 Report of Linnean Sociely^s Proceedings, in ' Gardeners' Chronicle,' May 18, 1861. 



Proceedings of Societies. 



Entomological Society. 



May 6, 1861. — J. W. Douglas, Esq., President, in the chair. 



Donations. 

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

 to the respective donors : — ' Transactions of the Linnean Society,' Vol. xxiii. 

 Part 1 ; presented by the Society. ' Proceedings of the Royal Society,' Vol. xi. 

 No. 43; by the Zoological Society. 'Proceedings of the Society, Part 3, 1860; 

 by the Society. ' Observations on the Neuration of the Hind Wings of Hyme- 

 nopterous Insects, and on the Hooks which join the Fore and Hind Wings 

 together in Flight,' by Miss Staveley ; by the Author. The ' Zoologist' for 

 May ; by the Editor. ' Notes on the Generative Organs, and on the Formation of 

 the Egg, in the Annulosa,' Part 1, by John Lubbock, Esq., F.R.S. ; by the Author. 

 ' The Journal of the Society of Arts' for April ; by the Society. ' The Atheujeum' for 

 March and April ; by the Editor. ' The Entomologist's Weekly Intelligencer,' Vol. 

 ix. and Nos. 235 to 239 inclusive ; by H. T. Stainton, Esq. 



Elections. 



A. Murray, Esq., of Scotland Street, Edinburgh, was elected a Member ; and 



James Arthur Laing, Esq., of Paragon Road, Blackheath, was elected a Subscriber 



to the Society. 



Exhibitions. 



Mr. Stevens exhibited some specimens of Saperda oculata from the Cambridge- 

 shire fens, and observed that the species had not previously been taken in this country 

 for about twenty years. He also exhibited two beautiful Cetonidae, viz., Tmesorrhina 

 Thoreyi and T. Iris, from Sierra Leone ; and three fine species of Paussus, from the 

 coast of Malabar. 



Dr. Wallace exhibited a specimen of Acherontia Lethe, said to have been found 

 alive by a young lady at East Cowes. Being a native of the East Indies, it must 

 have been accidentally imported into this country. 



Mr. Haward exhibited a fine example of Euryporus picipes, found under decaying 

 leaves on Sanderstead Downs. 



Mr. Machin exhibited some interesting Micro-Lepidoptera, amongst which were 

 Stigmonota inlerrnptana, Coleophora vulneraria, an apparently new species of Ge- 

 lechia, &c. 



Mr. Stainton exhibited larvae of two species of Micropteryx mining in birch-leaves. 



