8896 Entomological Society. 
Garden,’ Vol. iii. Nos. 35, 36, 38—41 ; by C. A. Wilson, Esq. ‘The Journal of the 
Society of Arts’ for November; by the Society. ‘The Atheneum’ for November; by 
the Editor. ‘The Reader’ for November; by the Editor. ‘ Stettiner Entomologische 
Zeitung,’ 24 Jahrg. Nos. 10—12; by the Entomological Society of Stettin. 
Election of Member. 
George Bryant, Esq., of the India Office, Victoria Street, Westminster, was bal- 
lotted fur, and elected a Member of the Society. 
Alteration of the Bye-Laws. 
Notice was given that a Special General Meeting would be held on Monday, the 
25th of January, 1864, at 7 ep. M., for the consideration of certain proposed alterations 
of the bye-laws. 
Exhibitions, &c. 
Mr. S, Stevens exhibited a large box of Coleoptera collected by the Rev. Mr. Gerard 
in the Zulu Country ; and a specimen of Polyommatus, taken in the Isle of Wight, 
which appeared to be intermediate between P. Adonis and P. Alexis. 
Sir John Hearsey exhibited some Indian Lepidoptera, principally Noctuide and 
Geometride. 
Mr. W. W. Saunders called attention to the injury done to an Orchid by one of 
the Cimicide: the Orchid was a Catasetum, which had been imported from Brazil 
about eighteen months before ; the bug was a Bryocharis, probably also an importation, 
but Mr. Saunders was inclined to think that it had come from Hayti, from which 
locality he had, only two months ago, received a collection of Orchids, among which 
a species of ant (Formica herculanea ?) had been found. The Bryocharis, when dis- 
turbed, exhibited extreme activity, and destroyed the plant in a manner similar to 
Thrips. 
Professor Westwood produced a MS. entomological journal of the late John Curtis, 
being a volume containing a page for each day of the year, and comprising upwards 
of two thousand entries, written without very careful attention to grammatical rules, 
but with the exquisite ueatness which characterized the author’s caligraphy. The 
observations of successive years were recorded on the same page belonging to the day 
of the month on which they were made; the year was entered in one column, the plant 
or material attacked or infested was named in a second column, and the insect attacking 
or infesting in a third; these were followed by more particular details as to the nature 
and extent of the injury done, and generally as to the habits of the species under obser= 
vation. The Professor observed that perhaps, on the whole, there was no better plan 
of keeping an entomological journal, but the manifest objection to it was that it was 
merely chronological (or rather seasonal), and there were no means of referring at once 
to all the observations on the same subject; but an index was required both of the 
attacking insects and of the objects attacked. 
Professor Westwood also produced, as another Entomologico-literary curiosity, a 
MS. page of the Proceedings of the Norwich Entomological Society, of which the fol- 
lowing is a copy :— 
“Third Meeting. At Mr. Curtis’s, December 4, 1810. 
“A paper was read (No. 4) from Mr. Curtis, on the powers of sound possessed by 
some individuals among the Coleoptera. 
