Entomological Society. 7615 



Proceedings of Societies. 



Entomological Society. 



June 3, 1861.— J. W. Douglas, Esq., President, in the chair. 



Donations. 



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

 the donors: — ' Sitzungsberichte der Konigl. bayer Akademie der VVissenschaften zu 

 Miinnchen,' 1860, Heft 4, 5 ; presented by the Academy. ' Proceedings of the Ber- 

 wickshire Naturalists' Club,' vol. iv. No. 4 ; by the Club. The ' Zoologist' for June ; 

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

 'Athenaeum ' for May ; by the Editor. 'Catalogue of British Coleoptera,' sheets O 

 and P, two copies ; by the Author, G. E. Waterhouse, Esq. The ' Journal of Ento- 

 mology,' No. 3 ; by the Proprietors. 



Exhibitions. 



The President exhibited, on behalf of Mr. Charles Fenn, a specimen of Saturnia 

 Carpini, the wings of which on the left side presented the coloration of the female of 

 that species, whilst those on the opposite side, the structure of the antennae, &c., agreed 

 precisely with the male insect. 



Mr, Lubbock observed that he believed none of these apparent hermaphrodites had 

 been anatomically examined, and he thought it would be very interesting to ascertain 

 how far the disposition of the internal organs corresponded with the external peculi- 

 arities. 



Mr. Bond exhibited two remarkably large male examples of Ennoraos illunaria, 

 bred by the Rev. Joseph Greene from pupae found at the roots of a lime tree at New- 

 rath Bridge, near Wicklow ; also two species of Eupithecia, which had been recently 

 determined by Mr. H. Doubleday to be the E. tripunctata and E. trisiguata of Her- 

 rich-Schseffer. 



Dr. Knaggs exhibited drawings of the larvae of these Eupitheciae, executed by the 

 Rev. H. Harpur Crewe, who had found them on Angelica sylvestris ; and the larva of 

 E. helveticaria, also received from Mr. Crewe. 



Sir John Hearsey exhibited a number of beautiful drawings of the transformations 

 of Indian Lepidoptera, with their food plants, executed from nature by the members of 

 his own family. 



Mr. Solomon exhibited specimens of Ammaecius elevatus, from Southport Sands, 

 near Liverpool ; and Staphylinus latebricola and S. fulvipes, taken near Folkestone. 



Mr. Solomon also exhibited, on behalf of the captors, Messrs. D. and H. Moses, 

 examples of Byrrhus Dennii, taken on Clapham Common, and a fine specimen of the 

 rare Myrmedonia Haworthii, found under dead leaves in Dulwiuh Wood. 



Mr. F. Smith exhibited a living example of Aspidomorpha Sta Crucis, a splendid 

 Cassida from India, lately received at the British Museum, and the only one of a 

 number sent which reached this country alive. 



Sir J.. Hearsey observed that he had frequently noticed this beautiful species in 

 India, and that when his family visited the subterranean temples of Salsette they found 

 it in some abundance on the island. 



Mr. Waterhouse exhibited a series of specimens of Ceuthorhyncus sulcicollis, Gi/ll., 

 and a series of another species very much resembling the C. sulcicollis, but differing so 

 as to lead him to regard it as a distinct species. The first mentioned insect is common 



