PROCEEDINGS 



OP THE 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



186L 



February 4, 1861. 



J. W. Douglas, Esq., President, in the chair. 



Donations. 

 The following donations were announced, and thanks ordered to be presented to 

 the donors : — 'Memoires de la Societe de Physique et d'Hisloire Naturelle de Geneve,' 

 Tome XV., Deuxieme Partie ; presented by the Society. ' Proceedings of the Royal 

 Society,' Vol. xi. No. 42 ; by the Society. 'Journal of the Proceedings of the Lin- 

 nean Society,' Supplement to Vol. v., Botany ; by the Society. ' Annales de la Societe 

 Enlomologique Beige,' Tome iv. ; by the Society. ' Sulla Monografia del Bombice 

 del Gelso del Dottor Emilio Cornalia, Eelazione di Antonio Villa;' ' Osservazioni 

 Zoologiche eseguite durante I'ecclisse parziale di sole del 18 Juglio, 1860, communi- 

 cate dal Socio Antonio Villa ;' ' Straordinaria apparizione di insetti carnivori, di An- 

 tonio Villa;' ' Sui Curculioniti dell'agro Pavese enumerati dal Dottor Prada, Relazione 

 lelta nella seduta 18 Decembre, 1859, della Societa Geologica in Milano dal socio 

 fondatore Antonio Villa, Vice-Presidente della Societa Stessa ;' by the Author. ' The 

 Journal of the Society of Arts' for January; by the Society. ' The Farm and Garden,' 

 Nos. 23 and 24 ; by C. A. Wilson. ' The Zoologist' for February; by the Editor. 

 ' The Athenaeum ' for January ; by the Editor. ' The Enloraologist's Weekly Intelli- 

 gencer,' Nos. 223 to 226 inclusive ; by H. T. Staiuton, Esq. 



Election of a Subscriber. 

 Joseph Holdsworth, Esq., of 54, Lombard Street, London, was balloted for and 

 elected a Subscriber to the Society. 



Exhibitions. 

 Mr. Janson exhibited a specimen of Philonthus punciiventris, Kraatz (' Naturgis- 

 chicble der Inseclen Deulschlands,' ii. 578, 10; 1857), and made the following obser- 

 vations respecting the species : — 



" Nearly allied to P. carbonarius, GylL, from which it is readily distinguished by 

 its slender antennae, of which the penultimate articulations are but slightly transverse ; 



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