2914 THE ZooLocist—JANUARY, 1872. 
Proceedings of the Entomological Society. 
November 20, 1871.—A. R. Wattace, Esq., F.Z.S., President, in the 
chair. 
Additions to the Library. 
The following donations were announced, and thanks voted to the 
donors :—Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d’Histoire Naturelle de 
Genéve,’ tome xxi. lre partie, and ‘Table des Mémoires contenus dans 
les tomes i. & xx,;’ presented by the Society. ‘ Nouveaux Mémoires de la 
Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou,’ tome xiii., livr. 3; ‘ Bulletin 
de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou, 1870,’ Nos. 3 and 4; 
by the Society. ‘Additions to the Australian Curculionide,’ part 1; 
‘ Descriptions of New Genera and Species of Longicornes, including three 
new Subfamilies ;’ ‘ Notes on Coleoptera, with Descriptions of New Genera 
and Species,’ part i.; by the author, F’.P. Pascoe, Esq. 
By purchase ;— ew, ‘ Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten 
europiiischen zweifliigeligen Insecten,’ band ii. 
Election of Members. 
The following gentlemen were balloted for and elected:—C. V. Riley, 
Esq., State Entomologist for Missouri, as Foreign Member: Lieut. Barzillai 
Lowsley, R.E., of George Town, Demerara, and F. Raine, Esq., of South 
Road, Durham, as Ordinary Members; and W. H. Miskin, Esq., of the 
Supreme Court, Brisbane, Queensland, as an Annual Subscriber. 
Exhibitions, de. 
Mr. Dunning said that since the last meeting of the Society he had been 
informed that, at the precise time when the example of the great black 
woodpecker (Picus martius), referred to by Prof. Westwood in connection 
with Formica herculeana, was said to have been shot near Oxford, several 
specimens were exposed for sale in Leadenhall Market, and these were 
presumably of Norwegian origin. 
Mr. E. Sheppard could not reconcile the occurrence of a gigantic species 
of ant, not hitherto known as British, in the crop of a bird the origin of 
which was open to doubt, with the idea that this bird had actually been shot 
under the circumstances already alleged. 
Prof. Westwood said that Mr. C. Robertson, of Oxford, assured him that 
he had repeatedly seen the bird in the woods at Clovelly, and Mr. Jackson, 
of New College, had observed it in East Devon. 
Mr. F. Smith was informed that thirty instances of its occurrence in 
Britain had been recorded, and that in one case an example had been shot 
by the grandfather of the present Lord Derby. 
Mr. Bond asserted that there existed no authentic British example; all 
the reported occurrences had been traced and found to be erroneous, save 
that of Lord Derby, and much doubt existed concerning this. 
