February 9, 1841. 
William Horton Lloyd, Esq. in the Chair. 
A letter from Dr. M‘Clelland, of Calcutta, Corr. Memb., was 
read. It states that Dr. M‘Clelland had forwarded for the Society 
a pair of Java Pea-fowls; these having been brought from Chitta- 
gong by C. W. Smith, Esq., who expressed a desire to present them 
to the Society. Dr. M‘Clelland also states, that he shall endeavour 
to procure for the Society a pair of the Jungle Pea-fowl of India. 
A letter from P. C. Blackett, Esq., dated January 27, 1841, was 
next read. It relates to the parent stock of the domestic Dog (Canis 
familiaris of authors), and gives some account of the habits of the 
European Wolf. The pups of this animal, it is said, were considered 
valuable about sixty or seventy years back, and that they were easily 
domesticated, and became as familiar and attached to their master 
as the common domesticated Dog. 
A monograph on the genus Nematoptera, by J. O. Westwood, 
Esq., F.L.S., was read. 
In this monograph numerous new species are added to those 
already characterized by Dr. Klug and others. The genus Nema- 
toptera (Nemoptera, Latr.) was placed by its founder, Latreille, in the 
family Panorpide, owing to the rostrum being elongated as in that 
family ; but Mr. Westwood agrees with Drs. Klug and Burmeister, in 
arranging the species in the Hemerobiide, since they agree with this 
family, not only in the structure of the mouth, but also in the ge- 
neral arrangement of the nervures of the wings. 
Following are the chief characters of the species :— 
Sectio 1™. 
Alz anticze latissime ovate, coloratz, serie duplici vel triplici cellu- 
larum in area anali. 
Sp. 1. Nemaroprera Pzrivert. Nem. alis anticis ovatis, pallid? 
flavis ; fasciis quatuor sinuatis ; costa ad basin immaculata ; ma- 
cula oblonga ante mediam, altera media tertiaque subapicali, ni- 
gris, punctisque nonnullis versus marginem internum et in discum 
ale ejusdem coloris. 
Expans. alar. antic. 2—25 unc. Long. alar. postic. 1—14 une. 
Syn. The Feather-tailed Smyrna Adderbolt, Petiver, Gazoph. 
tab: 73. f.11. : 
Phryganea e Moldavia, Linneus, Kongl. Vetensk. Handl. 1747. 
p- 176—178. tab. 6. fig. 1. 
Ephemera Coa, Hasselquist, Iter Palestinum, p. 423. (1757). 
No. XCVII.—Procgepines or THE Zoot. Soc. 
