THE ZOOLOGIST 



FOB 



1866, 



PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society. 

 November 6, 1865.— F. P. Pascoe, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



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Additions to tlie Library. 



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

 « Philichthys XiphiiE, Stp., monograpbisk fremstillet af V. Bergsoe ;' presented by the 

 Author. 'Nye Oplysninger om Philichthys Xiphis, Sip., af J. Steenstrup ;' by the 

 Author. ' Synopsis of the Boinbycidae of the United States,' by A. S. Packard, jun.; 

 by the Author. ' Materials for a Monograph of the North-American Orlhoptera,' by 

 Samuel H. Scudder ; by the Author. ' Reports on the noxious, beneficial and other 

 Insects of the State of New York,' by Asa Fitch, M.D., Reports 3—9, 1859-65; by 

 the Author. 'The British Hemiptera,' Vol. i. (Hemiptera-Heteropttra),' by J, W. 

 Douglas and J. Scott; by J. W. Dunning. • Memoires pour servir a I'Histoire 

 Nalurelle du Mexique, des Antilles, et des Etats-unis,' IVe Livraison (Orlhopteres, 

 Blattides); by the Author, Mons. H. de Saussure. ' Blattarura novarum Species 

 aliquot, conscripsit H. de Saussure ' ; by the Author. ' The Zoologist ' for November ; 

 by the Editor. ' The Entomologist,' No. 21 ; by the Editor. 



The addition, by purchase, of the 129th livr. of Duval, Fairmaire et Migneaux, 

 ' Genera des Coleopieres d'Europe,' was also announced. 



Election of Members. 



Samuel McCanl, Esq., B.C.L., of the Rectory.House, London Bridge ; and Henry 



Reeks, Esq., of the Manor House, Thruxton, were severally ballotted for, and elected 



Members. 



Exhibitions, SfC. 



Professor Westwood, on behalf of Mr. S. Stone, exhibited a specimen of Acherontia 



Atropos which had been born with only one antenna, the right-hand organ being 



entirely wauling ; also the pupa-skin from which the moth had emerged, and which 



showed a rudimentary antenna, which, however, was not placed in its normal position 



along the side of the thorax, but projected out from the body and was then curved or 



thrown backwards, like the horn of a cow or ram. 



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