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larvae greedily. Great havoc was committed among potatoes. I found them numerous 

 among gooseberry rows and in waste jilaces. — George Roberts ; Lofihouse, Wakefield. 



Proceedings of Societies. 

 Entomological Society. 

 April 3, 1865. — F. P. Pascoe, Esq., President, in the chair. 



Donations to the Library. 



The following donations were announced, and thanks voted to the donors: — 'The 

 Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England,' 2nd series. Vol. i. ; presented 

 by the Society. 'The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London,' Vol. xxiv. 

 Part 3; by the Society. 'The Journal of Entomology,' No. 12; by the Proprietors. 

 Hewitson's ' Exotic Butterflie?,' Part 54 ; by W. VV. Saunders, Esq. Duleschall, C. L., 

 'Bijdrage lot de Kennis der Dipterologische Fauna van Nederlandsch Indie,' 

 Parts 1 — 3; ' Eiijdrage tot de Kennis der Aiachniden van den Indischen Archipel;' 

 'Tweede Bijdrage tot de Kennis der Arachuiden van den Indischen Archipel;' by 

 A.R.Wallace, Esq. 'The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine' for April; by the 

 Editors. ' The Zoologist' for April; by the Editor. 



Election of Members. 

 Captain Willoughby S. Rooke, of the Scots Fusilier Guards, and of Bigswear, 

 Gloucestershire; R. S. Scholfield, Esq., of the Junior Carlton Club ; and Dr. Sichel, 

 of Paris, were severally ballotled for, and elected Members. Mr. Stephen Barton, of 

 Bristol, was ballotted for, and elected an Annual Subscriber. 



Exhibitions, Src. 



The President exhibited a new species of Bolboceras from South Australia, which 

 was found buiTowing in the hard road at Gawler, near Adelaide, a habit similar to 

 that of the European B. gallicus. The Australian species was described by its captor, 

 Mr. Odewahn, as " making a noise like a Longicorn, by moving the small pulvilli 

 beneath the hind coxae.'' 



The President read the following extract from the ' Athenaeum ' of the 18th of 

 March, 1865:— 



"Bottesford Manor, Brigg, March 13, 1865. 



" In Saturday's ' Athenajum ' (p. 352), it is recorded, that at the Meeting of the 

 Entomological Society, held on March 6, 'Mr. Bond exhibited specimens of a gall 

 found on a willow tree near Cambridge; the attack of the insect . . . caused a prema- 

 ture terminal development of leaves in whorls, so as to resemble a flower-head.' Galls 

 of this kind are of very frequent occurrence on willows in this neighbourhood, and, 

 I believe, throughout the whole of Lincolnshire. They are so common here that 

 I have always supposed that they must be familiarly known to naturalists. They first 

 show themselves in the latter summer and early autumn, but are not easily discovered 

 until the tree sheds its leaves. When that happens the gall-leaves become prominent 

 objects. Their form is singularly like that of a small rose, and the likeness is increased 

 by the colour, which, in December and January, is a light brown, very often nearly 



