CONTENTS. 



PAGE 



Officers of the Society m 



Price of the Transactions iv 



Explanation of the Plates ^^ 



Errata 170 



Additions to the Library from the 1st of January, 1854, to the 31st 



December, 1855 xiii 



Additions to the Collections from the 1st January, 1854, to the 3lst 



December, 1855 xvi 



List of Members, April, 1856 xvii 



Journal of Proceedings from February, 1854, to January, 1856 ... i 

 Index clix 



MEMOIRS. 



L Notice of a Sackbearing Bombyx, found by Mr. Bates near 

 Santarem, on the Amazons. By Edward Newman, Esq., 

 F.L.S., &c 1 



IL Description of a new Species of Lit/iocoUetis. By John Scott, 



Esq 9 



in. Critical Remarks upon the British Elaterid£, with Descriptions 

 of some of the Species. By John Curtis, Esq., F.L.S., 

 &c 10 



IV. Some Observations on the Excrement of Insects; in a Letter 

 addressed to William Spence, Esq., F.R.S., &c. By 

 John Davy, Esq., M.D., F.R.S., Inspector-General of 

 Army Hospitals 18 



V. Descriptions of some Coleopterous Larvffi, &c. By John Curtis, 



Esq., F.L.S., &c 33 



