264 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



Entomological Society of London. 



March 7, 1883.— J. W. Donning, Esq., M.A., F.L.S., &c., President 

 in the chair. 



Messrs. Francis F. Freernau (8, Leigham Terrace, Plymouth), Frederick 

 Charles Lemann (Blackfriars House, Plymouth), and Frederick W. Smith 

 (Hollywood House, Blackheath Point, Blackheath, Kent], were balloted for 

 and elected Members of the Society. 



Mr. Pi. M'Lachlan exhibited a specimen of Pollutes hebraits, Fain., 

 which was captured in one of the London Docks on Saturday last; the 

 specimen was in a dormant state, but revived from the heat of the meeting- 

 room. These wasps had been commonly seen on a ship returning from 

 Calcutta, which contained a quantity of bamboos as dunnage; Mr. M'Lachlan 

 thought these probably contained nests of the Polities. 



Mr. T. If. Billups exhibited specimens of Pheeogenes homochlorus,Wesm., 

 and Hemiteles incisus, Brdg., captured at Chobham last summer. 



Mr. Billups also exhibited a further specimen of the Orthopterou 

 exhibited at last meeting, and which he had identified as Copiophora 

 cornuta, DeGr., a Central American species. 



Dr. 1>. Sharp exhibited a preparation showing the pro- and meso-thoracic 

 membrane of a large E later (Chalcolepidius porcatus, Linn.), in which the 

 prothoracic breathing orifices were of a hitherto unobserved structure. 

 The two stigmata were closed by hinged, horny trap-doors, very similar in 

 action to the lid of a trap-door spider's nest. 



The Secretary exhibited, on behalf of Mr. <;. S. Saunders, a microscopic 

 instrument which greatly facilitated the examination of pinned or living 

 specimens under the microscope without alteration of the stage. 



Mr. .1. l!. Bridgman communicated a paper entitled " Further Additions 

 to Mr. Marshall's Catalogue of British IchneumonidsB," in which sixteen 

 species were referred to as new to Britain, and twenty-six species described 

 as new to science. 



April 1. 1883. — J. W. Dunning, Esq., M.A., F.L.S., &c., President, 



in the chair. 



The President announced the sudden death, on March 27th last, of 

 Prof. P. C. Zeller, of Stettin, who had been an Honorary Member of this 

 Society for upwards of thirty years. 



Messrs. Lewis F. Hill (3, Edwardes Terrace, Kensington), and Louis 

 Peringuey (Rondebosch, Cape Town), were balloted for and elected Members 

 of the Society. 



Mr. W. F. Kiiby exhibited specimens of Acridium succinctum, Linn., 

 received from Mr. T. Davidson, who stated that it was this species of locust 

 which had lately been causing great destruction in the Deccan and other 

 parts of Jndia. 



