838 Thb Zoologist — July, 1867. 



PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society. 

 June 3, 1867. — Sir John Lcbbock, Bait, President, in the chair. 



Donations to the Library. 



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

 ' Annales de la Societe Entoinologique de France,' for 1866 ; presented by the Society. 

 ' The Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society,' 2nd Series, Vol. iii. Part 1 ; by the 

 Society. ' Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia,' Vols. iv. and v., 

 and Vol. vi. No. 1; by the Society. ' Verhandlungen der K. K. Zoologiscb-botau- 

 ischen Gesellschaft in Wien,' Vol. xvi.; by the Society. 'Characters of some New 

 Genera of the Coleopterous Family Cerambycidac,' by Francis P. Pascoe, F.L.S , &c. ; 

 by the Author. 'The Zoologist' for June; by the Editor. 'The Eutomologist's 

 Monthly Magazine' for June; by the Editors. 



Exhibitions, fyc. 



Mr. Pascoe exhibited some Coleoptera from Graham's Town, collected by Mr. 

 Schiffman ; amongst them were a new Pycnopsis, a new Ceroplesis, three new species 

 of the European genus Slenidea, a new form of Rhipicerida', a new genus of Prionidae 

 belonging to Lacordaire's "groupe Closteiides," and a new genus allied to 

 Cerambyx. 



Mr. T. \V. Wood (who was present as a visitor) exhibited several specimens of 

 Vanessa Milberti from British Columbia, all agreeing in this particular— that the light 

 coloured scales of the wings appeared to have been abraded, suggesting the notion that 

 the light-coloured scales had been less firmly attached than the dark-coloured. 



Mr. Stainton exhibited the larva, pupa and imago of Earias siliquana, sent to him 

 by Professor W. C. Williamson, of Manchester, who wrote as follows:— "The moth 

 has almost destroyed the cotton crops in Egypt; it eats into the ovary of the flower in 

 its early larval state, and goes into chrysalis in the cotton-ball, utterly destroying the 

 cotton. Its ravages have extended over both Upper and Lower Egypt. The moth is 

 of a bright green colour, like our little English prasinana of the oak ; can you identify 

 it? The insects have come to me through the Foreign Office and the Manchester 

 Chamber of Commerce." Mr. Stainton observed that the moth had hitherto been 

 considered a great rarity, and he had been able to identify it as the Earias siliquana of 

 Herrich-Schaffer by the aid of two specimens lately brought from Egypt by Mr. 

 Pickard-Cambridge ; Dr. Staudinger, when compiling his Catalogue of European 

 Lepidoptera, did not possess a specimen. The insect was closely allied to the Earias 

 chlorana of this country, which feeds in the terminal shoots of osiers. 



Mr. Bond exhibited a small moth, belonging to the Torlrices, captured during the 

 preceding week, in Darenth Wood, by Mr. E. G. Meek, and which he believed to be 

 new to the British list. 



Mr. Bond also exhibited a variety of Adela DeGeerella (male), captured at 

 Charlton in 1866, and having the wings entirely suffused with bright yellow. 



