The Zoologist— March, 1869. 1605 



PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society. 

 February ], 1869. — H. W. Bates, Esq., President, in ihe chair. 



The President returned thanks for his re-election, and nonjinated as his Vice- 

 Presidenls Messrs. Pascoe, Frederick Smith, and A. R. Wallace. 



Donations to the Library. 



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

 'Catalogue of Scientific Papers (1800 — 1863) compiled and published by the Royal 

 Society of London,' Vol. ii. ; 'Proceedings of the Royal Society,' Nos. 105 and 106; 

 presented by the Society. 'Journal of ihe Linnean Society,' Zoology, No. 45; by the 

 Society. 'Journal of the Quekett Microscopical Club,' Nos. 4 and 5; by the Club. 

 'Bulletin de la Societe Tmperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou,' 1868, No. 1 ; by the 

 Society. 'Genera des Coleopteies,' Tome viii.; by the Author, Prof. Lacordaire. 

 'Essai Monographique sur les Oxybelus du Bassin du Leman (Insectes Hymen- 

 opleres),' par Frederic Chevrier; by the Author. Newman's ' British Moths,' No. 26: 

 by the Author. ' The Zoologist,' for February ; by the Editor. ' The Entomologist's 

 Monthly Magazine,' for February ; by the Editors. 



Exhibitions, SfC. 



Mr. Edward Saunders exhibited a specimen of Pachetra leucophcea, captured by 

 Mr. N. E. Brown, on a gas-lamp at the Redhill Railway Station, on the i4th May, 

 1868. 



The Secretary read a letter from Dr. W. Webster Butterfield, of Indianapolis, 

 oflFering to exchange Lepidoptera of Indiana, U.S.A., for those of England. 



Mr. Pascoe made some observations on ihe Coleopterous genera Aprostoma, 

 Mecedanum and Gempylodes, with reference to the remark of Prof. Westwood (Proc. 

 Ent. Soc. 1868, p. 1.) that these genera would probably have to be united. M. Guerin's 

 genus Aprostoma was by Prof. Lacordaire referred to the family Brenthidae ; at all 

 events the insect from the Niger exhibited by Prof. Westwood was generically distinct, 

 and in Mr. Pascoe's opinion abundantly distinct, from Gempylodes. 



Mr. Pascoe exhibited a curious bug (perhaps an Odontoscelis) from the neighbour- 

 hood of Toulon; he had been unable to identify it with any species described by 

 M. Mulsant. 



Prof. Westwood gave an account of the nsw vine-pest, Rhizaphis, to which his 

 attention was first called in 1863 : its mode of attacking the vine was two-fold, or at 

 all events specimens between which he could not find any difference, and which to all 

 appearance belonged to the same species, caused damage to the vines io two very 

 different ways. Some of them sucked the upper side of the leaf, and caused the 

 appearance on the lower side of a gall, which was unique in its character; the upper 

 coat of the leaf split into tooth-like or radiating segments, each with delicate while 

 filaments ; beneath this covering the insect sheltered herself, being visible through the 

 interstices between the radiations, and was of the size of an ordinary pin's head ; there 

 she lay her eggs, which hatched immediately, and the mother and young together filled 



