The Zoologist — February, 1867. 5G9 



Entomological Society. 



November 19, 1866. — Sir John Lubbock, Bart., President, in the chair. 



Donations to the Library. 



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

 'Bulletin de la Societe Imperiale des Naturalisies de Moscou,' 1865, No. 4; 186(5, 

 No. 1; presented by the Society. 'On the Origin of Species by means of Natural 

 Selection, or the Preservation of favoured Races in the Struggle for Life,' by 

 Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R S., &c. ; by the Author. 'Catalogue of Longicorn 

 Coleoplera, collected in the Island of Penang by James Lamb, Esq,' by Francis P. 

 Pascoe, F.L.S., F.Z.S., 8cc, late Pies. Eut. Soc. ; by the Author. 



Election of Members. 

 Percy Bicknell, Esq., of Beekenham, was elected a Member ; and G. H. Verrall, 

 Esq., of Lewes, an Annual Subscriber. 



Exhibitions, fyc. 



Prof. Westwood exhibited pupae of Thecla Betulae, and remarked that the larva 

 does not spin any silken band or girth, but simply fixes itself lengthwise on the 

 leaf. 



Mr. A. F. Sheppard sent for exhibition, on behalf of Mr. Gregson, remarkable 

 varieties of Pieris Rapa?, P. Napi, Leucopbasia Sinapis and Anlhocharis Cardamines; 



also Gelechia ?, taken by Mr. Hodgkinson in North Lancashire and by Mr. 



Gregson in South Lancashire; Phycita subornatella of Zeller, taken in the Isle of 

 Man and in Ireland; and an Acidalia, respecting which the following extract was 

 read from a letter from Mr. Gregson : — 



" I send you Acidalia veterata ; it may be the same as one named mancuniata 

 by Dr. Knaggs from some aberrant stunted second-brood females, but as the rule is to 

 name from normal males (not females) as types, of course his name falls, especially as 

 his diagnosis may mean anything or nothing. I do not knovv Dr. Knaggs, and of 

 course have not any wish to offend him, but could not accept his new name for my 

 old insect when based upon an abnormal type." 



Mr. Stainton exhibited a living specimen of Stathmopoda Guerinii (S. S. 565), 

 and called attention to the peculiar position of the hind legs, which were elevated and 

 stretched out sideways as in S. pedella (which received the name of pedella from 

 Linne from the peculiar posture of its hind legs) and as in the curious Indian insect 

 Atkiusonia Clerodendronella, of which a drawing by a native artist at Calcutta was 

 also exhibited. With reference to the galls in which the lanoe of S. Guerinii reside, 

 Mr. Stainton referred to a passage in Reaumur (vol. Hi. p. 305) in which these galls 

 on the 'terebinthe ' and their Aplm-inhabitants were mentioned, the plant which bore 

 them having obtained the name of the fh-tree (Varbre aux mouches) from the pod-like 

 excrescences containing these Aphides. Mr. Stainton refeired to the possibility of the 

 larva of S. pedella being an inhabitant of galls, and thought that the habitat assigned 

 by Linne for the larva " in alnifotiis, subculanea " might after all be correct : he quoted 

 a passage from a paper by T. Bergmann, who had furnished Linne with the notice of 

 the habit of Tinea pedella, to shew that that observer was aware of the existence of 

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