$194 Tue ZooLocist—Avueust, 1872. 
Proceedings of the Entomological Society. 
July 1, 1872.—Prof. J. O. Westwoop, M.A., F.L.S., President, in the 
chair. ‘ 
Donations to the Library. 
The following donations were announced, and thanks voted to the 
donors :—‘ Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou,’ 
Année 1871, Nos. 8 and 4; presented by the Society. ‘Illustrated 
Catalogue of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, at Harvard College,’ 
No. v.; by the Trustees. ‘The Canadian Entomologist,’ vol. iv., No. 5; 
by the Editor. ‘A Systematic Revision of some of the American Butterflies, 
with brief notes on those known to occur in Essex County, Mass.,” by 
Samuel H. Scudder; by the Author. ‘The Entomologist’s Monthly 
Magazine’ for July; by the Editors. ‘ Lepidoptera Exotica,’ part xiii. ; by 
E. W. Janson. ‘Notiser ur Sallskapets pro Fauna & Flora Fennica 
Forhandlingar,’ vols i., iv., v., vi., vil. and xii.; by J. W. Dunning, Esq. 
‘Exotic Butterflies,’ part 83; by W. W. Saunders, Esq. ‘ Notice by the 
Board of Studies for the Natural Science School of the University of 
Oxford. Issued in pursuance of Statute Tit. v. (vi.), Sect. i.’; by Professor 
Westwood. 
Election of a Member. 
Lord Moreton was balloted for, and elected an ordinary Member. 
Exhibitions, dc. 
Mr. Jenner Weir exhibited two examples of Agrotera nemoralis, taken 
by him in Abbot's Wood, Sussex, on the 26th ultimo. 
Mr. Meldola exhibited several varieties of British Lepidoptera, including 
dwarf specimens of Anthocharis cardamines, Porthesia auriflua and Abraxas 
grossulariata, and a Venilia maculata in which the black spots of the wings 
were entirely absent; also an example of Leucania vitellina, taken at 
Brighton in 1869. 
Prof. Westwood exhibited various interesting Coleoptera sent from 
Ceylon by Mr. Thwaites. Also prettily banded cocoons of some species of 
Ichneumonide (likewise sent from Ceylon by the same gentleman) remark- 
able for being attached to silken threads more than two inches long. The 
same lot of Ceylonese insects had furnished him, further, with an interesting 
illustration of the habits of a Lepidopterous insect, the larva of which cut 
out large oval pieces from a leaf of Citrus, making therewith a moveable 
dwelling under which it fed, fastening it down by the edges: owing to the 
