1726 The Zoologist — June, 1869. 



enhances tbe collection of phosphoric matter, if it be such. My fi!^hmonger tells me 

 that most sea-fish become thus luminous, many of them within half an hour after dark, 

 and others at a later date. Notes on this subject fr(m) others of your correspondents, 

 who living at the seaside have a better opportunity of observing, would be very 

 interesting. — C. H. 



PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society. 



May 3, 1869. — H. W. Bates, Esq., President, in the chair. 



Donations to the Library. 



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

 • Proceedings of the Royal Society,' No. 1 10; presented by the Society. 'Journal of 

 the Quekett Microscopical Club,' No. 6; by the Club. 'Annalesdela Societe Lin- 

 neenne de Lyon,' vol. xvi. ; by the Society. ' Verhandlungen der k. k. zool-bot. 

 Gesellschaft in Wieu,' vol. xviii., Parts 1 and 2 ; by the Society. ' Bulletin de la 

 Societe Imp. des Naluralistes de Moscou,' 1868, No. 2 ; by the Society. ' Beitrag 

 zur Keiintniss der Coleopteren-Fauna der Balearen,' by Dr. Schaufuss. Hewitson's 

 ' Exotic ButterQies,' Part 70 ; by W. W. Saunders, Esq. ' The Zoologist' for May ; 

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



Election oj Member. 

 Charles Owen Waterhouse, Esq., of the British Museum, was ballotted for, and 



elected a Member. 



Exhibitions, i$-c. 



Mr. S. Stevens exhibited a large collection of Coleoptera, sent from China by Mr, 

 Pullinger; and read an extract from a Report on the Coffee Plantations of India, to 

 tbe effect that the planters had not discovered any remedy for or preventive of the 

 ravages of the coffee-borer, Xylotrechus quadripes. 



Mr. Dunning exhibited a specimen of the common Cetonia aurala, found in a 

 garden at New Cross on the 11th April; it was partly covered with earth, and appeared 

 to have just emerged from its underground hybernaculum, whence it had been pre- 

 maturely tempted by the first warmth of spring. 



Mr. Butler mentioned that the Conocephalus from West Africa, which he exhibited 

 on the 15th Februaiy was still alive ; he had kept it in a box on a mantelshelf at the 

 British Museum, where it remained motionless unless disturbed, and had not eaten 

 anything whatever. 



Prof. Weslwood exhibited three species of Epyris and some other Hymenoptera 

 of doubtful position, having relations with the Proclotrupidaj, the Cbrysididte, and 

 some of the Scoliidae ; and a Calyoza from Port Natal, with pectinate antennae having 

 thirteen joints in both sexes; this was identical with an insect found in gum anime, 

 and described in Trans. Ent. Soc. ii. 56 (where the male was represented as having 

 only twelve joints to the antenna;). 



Mr. Frederick Smith exhibited both sexes of Cynips, the male of which had at 

 last been detected by Mr. Walsh in America. The oak-apples on the black oak 

 (Quercus linctoria) arc first observed in May, and reach their full growth in a few 



