796 The Zoologist — June, 1867. 



PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society. 

 April 1, 1867. — Sir John Lubbock, Bait, President, in the chair. 



Donations to the Library. 



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



'Exotic Butterflies,' Part 62; and 'Illustrations of Diurnal Lepidoptera,' Part 3, 



Lyca?nida?, by W. C. Hewilson ; presented by the Author. ' On the Data afforded by 



the Burchellian Collection as to the Geographical and ModiOcational Ranges of 



certain Brazilian Insects,' by J. 0. Westwood ; by the Author. ' The Zoologist' for 



April; by the Editor. 'The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine' for April ; by the 



Editors. 



Exhibitions, §-c. 



Mr. S. Stevens, on behalf of Mr. Higgins, exhibited six specimens of Damaster 

 blaptoides from Japan: the species appeared to he very local, and to be found only 

 near Nagasaki, whilst its smaller congener D. Fortune! was found in the North of 

 Japan. 



Mr. Pascoe exhibited, and read the following description of, a new species of 



Toxotus from Greece: — 



Toxotus Lacordairii. 



"T. ($) fuligineus, pube griseo-argentea tectus; segmentis duobus ultiinis abdo- 

 minis, femoribusque apicibus [exceptis luleis; tibiis anlicis et intermediis di- 

 midio basali lutescentibus; antennis basi luteis, articulo tertio quinlo longiore. 

 (?) mare vix robustior; in toto nigrescens, sparse argenteo-pubescens; tibiis 

 intermediis et posticis articulis basalibus dilalatis ; antennarum articulo quinlo 

 tertio duplo longiore. 

 Long. 8 lin. 



"The male somewhat resembles T. Quercus, but in the comparative length of the 

 joints of the antenna? it is more like T. meridianus. The female is scarcely stouter 

 than the male, and differs from it, as well as from all other European species of the 

 genus, in having the third and fourth joints of the antenna? equal, and the two 

 together not longer than the liflh; as well as in having the basal joints of the four 

 posterior tarsi as broad as the succeeding joints: the same is also the c;ise with the 

 anterior tarsi, but the character occurs in other species. In both sexes the two 

 tubercles on the prothorax are strongly marked and have a slightly linear form. 



"I have not dwelt on colour, as that will probably be found to vary. The pair 

 fiom which the above descriptions were made have been for some years in my cabinet, 

 and were originally obtained at Mr. Stevens's, from a collection made in Greece." 



Mr. Edward Sheppard read the following extract from the 'Daily News 'of the 

 29ih of March, 1867:— 



"According to the Melbourne papers jus 1 received, enormous swarms of beetles 

 have been noticed lately in Victoria, Australia. In the early part of January a swarm 

 was noticed near Ararat, in Victoria, flying in a column about twenty yards broad, 

 and keeping in compact order. They cast a dark shadow on the ground, and they 

 were an hour in passing the spot from which they were seen. At a certain point they 



