1302 The Zoologist— July, 1868. 



PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society. 

 June 1, 18(58. — H. W. Bates, Esq., President, in the chair. 



Additions to the Library. 



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

 ' Verhandlungen der K. K. zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien,' vol. xvii. ; 

 presented by the Society. ' Stettiner Entoraologisibe Zeitung,' 1868, Nos. 4 — 6; by 

 the Society. ' On the Diurnal Lepidoptera of the Extra-tropical Northern Hemi- 

 sphere,' by W. F. Kirby ; by the Author. ' The Odonat-Fauna of the Island of Cuba,' 

 by Dr. H. Hagen ; by the Author. Newman's ' British Moths,' No. 18 ; by the Author. 

 ' The Zoologist' for June; by the Editor. 'The Entomologist's Monthly Magaziue,' 

 for June; by the Editors. 



The following addition, by purchase, was also announced: — C.G.Thomson, 

 4 Skaudinaviens Coleoptera,' vols. viii. and ix. 



Election of Members. 

 G. P. Shearwood, Esq., of Cedar Lodge, Stockwell, was elected a Member; 

 II Cavaliere Francfort, of Pallanza, Lago Maggiore, was elected a Foreign 

 Member. 



Exhibitions, frc. 



The Secretary announced that an exhibition of useful and destructive insects 

 would take place in the Palais de l'lnduslrie, at Paris, during the month of August. 

 The Committee of Management includes Dr. Boisduval, M. Gucrin-Meneville, and 

 other entomologists and scientific agriculturists. The exhibition is to be made as com- 

 prehensive as possible, the scheme including the propagation of useful insects, methods 

 of curing or preventing disease, and economical management; and the illustration of 

 destructive insects, with means for opposing their ravages. As regards destructive in- 

 sects, the Committee has determined ou a practical instead of a scientific classification, 

 the subdivisions being formed by the plants upon which the creatures feed. Foreigners 

 are invited to take part in the coming exhibition ; applications to be sent in before 

 the 20th of July, to the Secretary of the Socieie d'lusectologie Agricolc, No. 1, Rue 

 Cadelle, Paris, or at the Palais de PIndustiic. The insects or other objects of 

 exhibition are to be sent in before the 25lh of July, and the exhibition opens on the 

 1st and closes on the 31st of August. The following are the principal heads of 

 classification: — First division — Useful insects: — 1st class, Silk-producing insects; 

 2nd class, Insects producing honey and wax ; 3rd class, Insects used in dyeing and 

 for colour; 4th class, Edible Insects, Crustacea and mollusks ; 5th class, Insects 

 employed for medical use ; 6th class, Insects used as ornaments. Second division — 

 Destructive insects: — Ten classes, viz. those which attack cereals, the vine, plants 

 used in industry, forage, vegetables and ornamental plants, fruit trees, forest trees, 

 timber used for building, truffles and fungi, dry organic matters, and, lastly, parasites 

 of man and domestic animals. The third division includes three classes — carnivorous 

 insects, parasitic insects; destructive of chrysalides; and iusectivorous animals, birds 



