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PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society. 

 June 4, 1866.— Sir John Luubock, Bart., President, iu the chair. 



Additions to the Library. 



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

 'Proceedings of the Ro.\al Societv,' No. 83; presented by the Society. 'A Ciitalogue 

 of Phytophiiga,' Part 1, by the Rev. Hamlet Chirk ; by the Auliior. ' On the Structure 

 of the E-ig in Scatophaga,' and ' Description of ihe Skin cast by an Epheineron, in its 

 "Pseud-imago" condition,' by Tuffen West, F.T.S., &c.; by the Author. 'Notes 

 upon some Odonala Irora the Isle of Pines,' by Samuel H. Scudder; by the Author. 

 ' New S|)ecies of North American Coleoptera,' Part 1 ; ' List of ihe Coleoptera of 

 'North America,' Part 1 ; ' On ihe Species of Galeruca and allied Genera inhabiting 

 North America;' 'Note on the Species of Myodiies,Za<r., inhabiting Norih America;' 

 and 'Remaiks on Stylopidae,' by John L. Leconte, M.D. ; by liie Author. 'The 

 Zoologist' for June; by the Editor. 'The Entomoloijisi's Monthly Magazine' for 

 June; by the Editors. 



The addition by purchase of the 131st livr. of the 'Genera des Coleopteres 

 d'Europe' was also announced. 



Election of Members. 



Count George Mniszech, of Paris, was elected a Foreign Member. Oshert Salvin, 

 Esq., M.A., F.L.S., of 16, Bolton's Grove, West Brompton, and Thomas Turner, Esq., 

 of 5, Dix's Fields, E.\eter, were elected Ordinary Members. 



Exhibitions, Src 



The Secretary read a letter from Dr. Wallace, in which the writer expressed his 

 regret that the drawing of the full-grown larva of Bombyx Cynthia given in his 

 Essay on Ailanlhicullure (Tr. Ent. Soc. 3rd Ser. vol. r. pi. xvi.) was not quite truthful, 

 the reason being that the larvae were not sent to the artist until the foiiith week in 

 October, when the weather had become wet and chilly and the food deficient, and the 

 larva were in consequence half-starved and torpid; moreover, on their journey the 

 gray-blue bloom was knocked ofif, and was not subsequently secreted ; it had, therefore, 

 been impossible for the artist to do full justice to the larva. Dr. Wallace added that he 

 had had sent him some eggs of ihe Japanese oak-feeding silkworm, Bombyx Yamamai, 

 the young larvje of which had hatched out, and required his constant attention during 

 the previous month. 



Mr. Wilkinson read from the Report of Mr. Consul Zohrab on the trade of 

 Berdiansk for the year 1865 (Commercial Reports received at the Foreign Office from 

 Her Majesty's Consuls, presented to Parliament, February, 1866), the following extract, 

 communicated by Prof. E. W. Brayley, of the London Institution : — 



"The appearance of a poisonous black spider amongst the wheat at harvest time 

 created for a few days a panic among the labouring classes. Wages rose to double 



