9376 Entomological Society. 
Proceedings of Societies. 
ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
November 7, 1864.—F. P. Pascor, Esq., President, in the Chair. 
Presentation to W. W. Saunders, Esq. 
Prior to the scientific business of the Meeting, a handsome silver vase was pre- 
sented by the President, on behalf of numerous Members of the Society, to W. Wilson 
Saunders, Esq., F.R.S.; &c., in acknowledgment of the generous aid which for years 
he has bestowed upon everything tending to advance the Science of Entomology, aud 
in recognition of his unvarying kiudness and the constant and liberal support which 
- he has given to the Society. 
Donations to the Library. 
The following donations were announced, and thanks voted to the donors :—‘* The 
Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society, Vol. xxv. Part ii.; presented by the Society. 
‘Mémoire sur le Pou a poche blanche;’ by the Author, M. E. Icery, D.M.C.P. 
‘Corynodinorum Recensio ;” by the Author, the Rev. T. A. Marshall, F.L.S. ‘ The 
Zoologist’ and * The Entomologist’ fur November; by the Editor. ‘The Entomolo- 
gist’s Monthly Magazine, No.6; by the Editors. ‘The Journal of the Society of 
Arts’ for October; by the Society. ‘The Reader’ for October; by the Editor. ‘ The 
Atheneum’ for Octoher ; by the Editor. ‘ Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung,’ Vol. 25, 
Nos. 10—12; by the Entomological Society of Stettin. ‘ Amtlicher Bericht uber die 
38ste Versammlung deutscher Naturforscher in Stettin im September, 1863 ;’ by Dr. 
C. A. Dohrn. ‘ Report of the Commission appointed to enquire into the causes of 
decay in Wood Carvings, and the means of preventing and remedying the éffects of 
such decay ;’ by Professor Westwood. 
Evhibitions, &c. 
Mr. Janson exhibited four species of Coleoptera belonging to Mr. Joseph Side- 
botham, of Manchester, and all new to the British list. They were (1) Ceuthorhyn- 
chideus Poweri, Rye; two specimens taken by Mr. Sidebotham in Silverdale, near 
Lancaster, between the 14th and 18th of May, 1864, most probably by sweeping on 
the borders of the woods near the shore ; (2) Lixus filiformis, Fabr.; a single specimen 
(at first taken for L. bicolor) captured by Mr. Sidebotham by beating the oak or birch 
in a wood on the side of Roundney Hill, near Devizes, early in June, 1864; (3) 
Sybines canus, Herbst; two specimens taken by Mr. Sidebotham, by sweeping, in a 
lane between Devizes and Pottern, early in June, 1864; (4) Peritelus griseus, Oliv. ; 
several specimens were collected at Ventnor in April, 1864, by Mr. Wainwright, 
probably by shaking herbage upon a sheet of paper, in which manner some bottles 
full of Coleoptera had been obtained by that gentleman, 
My. F. Smith exhibited three males and a female of a Bombus new to Britain, the 
Bombus pomorum of Panzer: the males were captured some years ago, and liad been 
placed in his collection as a variety of another species ; the female was the specimen 
exhibited at the Meeting in June last (ante p. 26), and was captured at Deal. 
Mr. Edwin Shepherd (on bebalf of Mr. 8. Carter, of Manchester, who was present — 
as a visitor), exhibited three males and a female of Sesia spheciformis, W.V., bred from 
pup found in the stems of alder-trees in the north of Staffordshire. 
Mr. W. W. Saunders exhibited some galls which he had found in making an ex- 
