The Zoologist— April, 1866. 191 



PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 



Ento.mological Society. 

 March 5, 1866.— W. W. Saunders, Esq., V.-P., in ihe Cbair. 



Donations to ike Library. 



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



' Schriften der Koniglicheu Pliysikalisch-okonoinischen Gesellschalt zu Konigsbero-,' 

 1864, Parts 1 6c 2; presented by the Society. 'Synopsis des Neuropleres d'Espaone ' 

 par A.-E(louard Pictet; by the Author. ' Una Kectilicaciun mas acerca del Animal- 

 Planta' y descripcinn de un uuevo lusecto?' par Antonio del Castillo; by Dr. Gray. 

 'The Zoologist' lor March; by the Editor. 'The Entomolugist's Monthly Magazine' 

 for March ; by the Editors. 



Exhibitions, ^c. 

 Mr. W. H. Groser said that when at the Meeting in December, 1865, a doubt was 

 expressed whether the noise made by Anobium was caused by percussion, he had a 

 strong conviction that the fact thus disputed rested on the authority of competent 

 observers, and he had since met with the Ibllowing passage respecting Anobium lessel- 

 latum in the Rev. L. Jenyns' ' Observations on Natural History :' — 



"It is curious to observe one of them labouring, as it were, to make itself heard ; 

 raising itself on its hinder legs it beats forcibly on the wall on which it stands with 

 the fore part of the head, giving seven or eight strokes at a time in pretty quick 

 succession." 



Mr. Groser had written to Mr. Jenyns, asking if this statement was made from his 

 own actual observation, and Mr. Jenyns replied, " I am quite sure of the correctness 

 of what I have stated in my ' Observations,' &c., respecting the tapping of Ano- 

 bium tessellatum, having witnessed it repeatedly. With regard to A. striatum I do 

 not recollect now (it is so many years since) whether what I have added in reference 

 to that species was stated on the ground of having seen it make the noise in question 

 or only having heard it." 



Mr. S. Stevens exhibited a Japaense coUectiou of butterflies and beetles from 

 Hakodadi, and remarked upon the close resemblance of many of the species, and those 

 indigenous to this country. 



Mr. Tegetmeier exhibited a general collection of Japanese insects from Nagasaki 

 the greater part being Lepidoptera and Coleoptera. 



Mr, W. W. Saunders, Mr. F. Smitii, Mr. Pascoe and Mr. M'Lacblan made 

 observations upon the number of Japanese forms, of Lepidoptera, Coleoptera and 

 Nenroptera, which were of an European type. 



Mr. F. Smith, on behalf of Mr. S. Stone, exhibited a singularly compact and sym- 

 metrical nest of Vespa sylvestris ; also nests of Vespa rufa, V. germanica and V. 

 sylvestris, which were constructed in 1864 by a few workers only. The original nests to 

 which the wasps belonged, together with the queens and the principal part of each 



