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"^ Proceedings of Societies. 



Ent-omological Society. 



July 1, 1861. — G. R. Waterhouse, Esq., V.P., in the chair. 



Donations. 

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

 the donors : ' Exotic Butterflies,' Part 39 ; presented by W. W. Saunders, Esq. 

 ' Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society,' Vol. v. No. 20, and secouil sup- 

 plement (Bdtany) ; by the Society. ' List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects 

 in the Collection of the British Museum,' by Francis Walker, f.L.S., &c.. Part xxii. 

 (Georaetrites) ; by the Author. ' The Zoologist,' for J uly ; by the Editor. ' Liste des 

 Hymenopteres Recueillis en Sicile par M. E. Bellier de la Chavignerie, pendaui les 

 mois d'Aoiit et Septembre, 1859,' par le Dr. Sichel ; by the Author. ' The Journal of 

 the Society of Arts ' for June ; by the Society. ' Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung,' 

 Vol. xxii. Nos. 4—6 ; by the Society. ' The Entomologist's Weekly Intelligencer,' 

 Nos. 240—247 ; by H. T. Stainton, Lsq. ' Report of a Lecture delivered by J. O. 

 Westwood, Esq., iM.A, F.L.S., Hope Professor of Zoology in the University of Oxford, 

 on the Metamorphoses of Insects, at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, on Friday, 

 May 24, 1861 ; by the Author. ' Pocket Catalogue of British Coleoplera ;' by the 

 Author, G. R. Waterhouse, Esq. 



Vote of Thanks. 

 A cordial vote of thanks was passed to W. Wilson Saunders, Esq., for the liberal 

 entertainment provided by him on the occasion of the Society's excursion to Rei"^ate, 

 on the 21st ult. 



Election of a Subscriber. 



Robert Hackshaw, Esq., of Merlon Road, Kensington was balloted for, and elected 

 a Subscriber to the Society. 



Exhibitions. 



Mr. Baly exhibited the type specimens of the new species of Hispidee in Mr. Bow- 

 ring's collection, described in the first part of the 'Catalogue of Hispidaj,' prepared by 

 him for the Trustees of the British Museum. 



Sir John Hearsey exhibited a large box of Indian insects of various orders, beinw 

 a portion of the collection made by him during his recent service in that country. 



Professor Westwood remarked that the box of insects exhibited by Sir Jobn Hearsey 

 contained many fine species, especially of butterflies, peculiar to Assam and the Dar- 

 jeeling district of the Himalayas; likewise a specimen of Necroscia Tuges, a spotted 

 winged species of Phasmidae, hitherto unique in the Hopeian Collection, as well as 

 one of a new genus of Actetidae of considerable size, also hitherto unique in the same 

 collection ; also specimens of each sex of the remarkable Lamellicorn Peperonota 

 Harringtonii of Westwood, and a fine new Prionideous insect wi;h spotted elytra. 



Mr. F. Smith exhibited a specimen of the singular bee parasite Braula cceca Nilzsch. 

 found in Devonshire on Apis Liguria. He stnted that the species had not hitherto 

 been recorded as an inhabitant of Britain ; on the Continent it was found on the com- 

 mon honey bee. Apis mellifica, and it was rather singular that it was observed for the 

 first time in this country on the recently imported species A. Liguria. 



