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Genus 2. Chermes, Linn. 



Antenna; five-jointed, very short. Wings deflexed. Fore wings 



with three oblique simple veins. Hind wings with one oblique vein, 



which is often evanescent. 



C. Abie lis, Linn. 



Genus 3. Phylloxera, Fonscolombe. 



Antennae three-jointed. Wings horizontal. Fore wings with three 



oblique simple veins. Hind wings with no oblique veins. 



P. coccinea, Heyden. 



(To be continued.) 



PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society. 

 July 6, 1863.— H. W. Bates, Esq., President, in the chair. 



Additions to the Library. 



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

 'Proceedings of the Royal Society,' Nos. 101 and 102; presented by the Society. 

 'Journal of the Linuean Society,' Zoology, No. 41 ; by the Society. ' Proceedings of 

 the Zoological Society,' 1867, Part 3; by the Society. Hewitson's ' Exotic Butter- 

 flies,' part 67; by W. W. Saunders, Esq. Newman's 'British Moths,' No. 19; by 

 the Author. ' The Zoologist ' for July ; by the Editor. ' The Entomologist's Monthly 

 Magazine,' for July; by the Editors. 



The following additions, by purchase, were also announced:— Panzer, 'Faunae 

 Insectorum Germanic* Initia.' Sturm, ' Deutschland's Fauna, Kafer ;' vols. 9—22. 

 'Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift,' 1857—67. 



Exhibitions, Src. 



Mr. M'Lachlan mentioned that, out of twenty-one pupa? of Hypercallia Christier- 

 ninana, he had bred nineteen of the perfect insect, and exhibited a dozen of them. 

 The pupa: soon lost the beautiful bright green colour (Zool. S. S. 1303), became 

 for a time pale dirty yellow or colourless, and finally assumed a rosy hue as the wings 

 of the imago made progress towards their full development. 



Mr. H. J. S. Pryer exhibited a specimen of Halias quercana, from West Wickham, 

 with the wings unequally developed, one side being much shorter than the other. 



Mr. Bond exhibited varieties of Seiina inorella and Arctia villica : the former was 

 captured near Croydon; its colour was pale, the ordinary rows of dots were very 

 indistinct, but there was a dark basal longitudinal mark, and a strong subapical dark 

 fascia : the latter was bred from one of a number of larvae found at Wormwood Scrubs, 

 all of wbich.were similarly treated, and, whilst the rest produced moths of the ordinary 



