2730 The Zoologist— August, 1871. 



Exhibitions, dx. 



Prof. Westwood exhiliited the miuute-book of proceedings of an Ento- 

 mological Society existing in London in 1780. The members appeared to 

 have consisted of Messrs. Drury, Honey, Swift, Fraucillou, Jones and 

 Bentley. The meetings were held weekly, but, in consequence of some 

 internal dissensions, the Society seemed to have collapsed in about a year. 

 The " business " done chiefly embraced notes on the appearance of various 

 species, and the objects of the members' studies were divided into three 

 classes, " flies" (buttei-flies), " moths" and " insects." 



Mr. S. Stevens exhibited a collection of Coleoptera formed by him during 

 a recent tour in Ireland. The most interesting species was Chlsenius holo- 

 sericeus, of which he had captured several examples at Killaloe, near Lough 

 Derg. 



Mr. Champion exhibited Emus hirtus, recently captured by him in cow- 

 dung in the New Forest ; being the only instance of its occurrence since 

 the late Mr. Alfred Haward found a specimen many years since. He also 

 exhibited two new British species of Hemiptera, viz., Corizus Abutilon, 

 Rossi, and Drymus latus, described by Messrs. Douglas and Scott in the 

 ' Entomologist's Monthly Magazine ' for June and July, 1871. 



Mr. Blackmore exhibited a collection of insects of all orders from 

 Tangiers, including some from Fez. There appeared to he many new 

 species of Coleoptera, which Mr. Blackmore announced his intention of 

 describing at a future meeting. Locusts, (Acrydium peregrinum), were 

 exceedingly abundant at Tangiers, and the pedestrian was often ankle-deep 

 in the dead and dying on the shore. The natives destroyed them with 

 wisps of straw, and did not dig trenches to stop their ravages. Mr. 

 M'Lachlan having remarked that the Chinese held, or did hold, an opinion 

 that locusts were developed from the eggs of craw-fish, Mr. Blackmore said 

 that the Spanish word ' laugosta ' was used both for a locust and lobster. 



Mr. Druce exhibited several rare species of exotic Rhopalocera, the 

 most interesting being Euryades Reovi, Westwood, Heliconia Hermogenes, 

 Hewitson, Heliconia, n. s., Eresia, u. s. ('i), Catagramma, n. s. (2), Agrias 

 Amydon, Hew., Paphia Panarista, Hew., Paphia nobilis, Bates, Siderone 

 Mars, Hew., &c. 



Mr. Stainton exhibited (on behalf of its captor, the Rev. R. P. Muiray) 

 an example of Botys fuscahs, from the Isle of Man, to the head of which 

 still adhered a portion of the puparium. The antennae and haustellum 

 were free, but the case of the latter projected perpendicularly from the 

 under side of the head, simulating the rostrum of a Panorpa. The insect 

 must have been nearly blind, yet it was flying briskly at the time of 

 capture. 



Mr. Miiller exhibited a vine-leaf from Basle, attacked by Phytoptus 

 vilis, which causes fur-like spots on the leaves, known as Erineum vitis. 



