The Zoologist— February, 1866. 107 



PEOCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society. 



December 4, 1865.— F. P. Pascoe, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



Donations to the Library. 

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

 moires de la Societe de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Geneve,' Tome XVIII, 

 lePartie; presented by the Society. 'Bulletin de la Societe Imperiale des Natu- 

 ralistes de Moscou,'— 1864, Nos. 2, 3 and 4,-1865, No. 1 ; by the Society. 'Tijd- 

 schrift voor Entomologie,' Vol. VIII, Paris 1 — 4 ; by the Entomological Society of 

 the Netherlands. ' Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France,' 1864, 4e trim.; 

 by the Society. ' Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung,' 1865, Nos. 4—6, and Nos. 10 — 

 12 ; by the Entomological Society of Stettin. ' The Journal of Entomology,' No. 13 ; 

 by the Proprietors. ' Synopsis of the Bombycidae of the United States,' Part 2, by 

 A. S. Packard, jun. ; by the Author. ' The Zoologist' for December; by the Editor. 

 ' The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine ' for December ; by the Editors. 



Election of Members. 

 The Kev. W. Farren White, Stonehouse Vicarage, Gloucestershire ; and John 

 Henry Hartwright, Esq., Terrace, Kennington Park, were severally ballotted for, and 

 elected Members. 



Exhibitions, ^c. 



The Secretary exhibited a collection of Lepidoplera, Coleoptera and Hymenoptera, 

 made at Moulmein an J in the Salween Valley, British Burmah, in July and August, 

 1865, by Lieut. R. C. Beavan. Amongst the Coleoptera, Mr. Baly detected a new 

 species of Prioptera. 



Mr. S. Stevens exhibited a box of admirably-preserved Lepidoptera from Santa 

 Marta, part of the collection of the late Mr. Bouchard ; and a specimen of Goliathus 

 giganteus captured by Mr. Du Chaillu about 100 miles inland from Fernand-Vaz, 

 and thence brought home in his pocket, being the only insect which he was able to 

 carry away with him on his recent hasty retreat from the interior of Western Africa. 



Mr. Stainton exhibited a remarkable variety of Tinea cloacella, bred by Mr. C. S. 

 Gregson, from dead birch trees at Llangollen ; the moth was entirely suflfused with a 

 dark ruddy brown (almost coppery) colour. 



Mr. F. Smith exhibited a series of bred specimens of the Tenthredinidous insect, 

 Croesus septentrionalis ; he had found the larvae nearly full-fed on the 20th of August 

 last ; in four or five days they buried themselves, and within a month the perfect flies 

 emerged, much to his surprise, as he had not expected them to hatch until next 

 spring. 



Mr. McLachlan believed the fly to be double-brooded ; he had captured it at Ran- 

 noch in June last. 



Mr, F. Smith (on behalf of Dr. J. E. Gray) exhibited specimens of a greasy- 

 looking Noclua, known as the " Bugong" moth (probably the Agrotis spina, Guenee), 



