The Zoologist — August, 1873. 3G55 



Proceedings of the Entomological Society. 



June 2, 1873.— Sir Sidney S. Saunders, Vice-President, in the chair. 



Donations to the Library. 

 The following donations were announced, and thanks voted to the 

 donors :— ' Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences,' vol. i. no. 1 ; 

 presented hy the Society. ' Bullettino della Societa Entomologica ItaHana,' 

 vol. V. trim. 1 ; by the Society. ' The Journal of the Quekett Microscopical 

 Club,' nos. 20, 21 and 22 ; by the Club. ' Fifth Annual Report on the 

 Noxious, Beneficial and other Insects of the State of Missouri,' by Charles 

 V.Riley; by the Author. 'Beitrage zur Kenntniss der Dipterenfauna 

 Galiziens,' von Dr. Max. Nowicki ; by the Author. 'Les Papillons 

 Diurnes de Belgique, Manuel du jeune Lepidopterologiste,' par Louis 

 Quaedvlieg ; by the Author. ' West Kent Natural History, Microscopical 

 and Photographic Society: the President's Address; the Council and 

 Auditors' Reports for 1872 ; and a Lecture on the Aquarium and its Con- 

 tents, delivered in the Crystal Palace,' by J. Jenner Weir, Esq., President 

 at the Soiree, November 6, 1872 ; by the Society. ' Note sur les Genus' 

 Peribleptus, Sch., Paipalesomus, 8ch., et Paipalephorus, Jekei; par M. H. 

 Jekel ; by the Author. ' The Zoologist ' and ' Entomologist ' for June ; by 

 the Editor. 'The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine ' for June; bv the 

 Editors. 



Exhibitions, dc. 



Mr. Bond brought to the meeting some seeds of Gleditschia Sinensis, 

 received from Japan, which were all destroyed by a species of Bruchus, of 

 which he exhibited living specimens. 



Mr. Miiller exhibited a Psyche case sent by Mr. Rothney from Calcutta. 

 Tt was composed of the spines of some tree arranged lougitudinaUy, so that 

 the points were all at the upper end. 



Sir Sidney Saunders exhibited a series of living Hymenopterous larva 

 and pupae in briar-stems, lately received from Albania. These briars having 

 been recently split, showed the occupants in their natural cells. Specimens 

 of the perfect insects reared from the larvae were also exhibited, consisting of 

 the following :-Ti7poxylon figulus. Smith; Raphiglossa Eumenoides, 

 Saunders; Psiliglossa (Stenoglossa, ,SV/im.) Odyneroides, 5au»(/. ; Odynerus 

 laevipes. Shuck.; Prosopis rubicola, Saund. ; Osmia tridentata, Buf. d- Ferris; 

 and 0. leucomelana, Kirb. 



Mr. Miiller communicated the following notes on the discovery, by 

 Dr. Emile Joly, of Toulouse, of a nymph which he announced to belong to 

 a species of Oligoneuria ; — 



" Havmg for the last fifteen years endeavoured to find the unknown early 

 conditions of Oligoneuria Rhenana, Imhoff, but so far without success, it is 



