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Proceedings of the Zoological Society. 



Monthly General Meeting, April 4. — E. Wyndham, Esq., in the chair. 



P. Sclater and T. Dry, Esqrs., were elected Fellows. Samuel Gurney, jun., and 

 I. Ingram Travers, Esqrs., were proposed as candidates for the Fellowship. 



The Keport of the Council stated that Her Majesty had honoured the Society by 

 the gift of a lioness, a magnificent leopard, a pair of ostriches, and a pair of gazelles, 

 recently received from Morocco. The hippopotamus presented by the Viceroy of 

 Egypt was reported to be in vigorous health at the date of the Hon. C. A. Murray's 

 last letter (March 1 8), and it is expected that the animal will arrive in this country — 

 with several other valuable accessions to the menagerie — about the end of next 

 month. Communications have also been received from A. N. Shaw, Esq., Bombay, 

 and Lieut. Tyler, R.E., Santa Lucia, announcing the shipment of some interesting 

 quadrupeds and reptiles. 



The visitors to the gardens on Easter Monday and Tuesday amounted to 5940. 



Proceedings of the Entomological Society. 



April 1, 1850. — G. R. Waterhouse, Esq., President, in the chair. 



The following donations were announced, and thanks ordered to be given to the 

 donors : ' Entomologische Zeitung,' November and December, 1849 ; ' Linnaea Ento- 

 mologica,' vol. iv. ; by the Entomological Society of Stettin. ' The Zoologist ' for 

 March and April ; by the Editor. ' Biographical Notice of the late Edward Double- 

 day;' by J. O. Westwood, Esq., the author (from the 'Gardener's Chronicle'). 

 1 Monograph of the larger African Species of Nocturnal Lepidoptera, belonging or 

 allied to the Genus Saturnia,' with four plates ; by J. O. Westwood, Esq., the author. 



The following gentlemen were balloted for and elected Corresponding Members 

 of the Society: Herr M, Bach, Boppard, on the Rhine; H. G. Dalton, Esq., George 

 Town, Demerara. 



Mr. Westwood exhibited a specimen and drawing of Cholovocera Maderae, a new 

 Coleopterous insect, remarkable for having the facetted eyes at the posterior angles of 

 the head, replaced on each side by six small, semiglobose, pellucid ocelli, precisely si- 

 milar to the ocelli at the sides of the head of many larva;, being the only species 

 throughout the whole of the metamorphotic winged insects in which this peculiarity 

 had been observed to exist. 



Mr. Westwood exhibited two insects mounted on gelatine, which he considered 

 was preferable to talc, as it was more transparent, and the insects were more firmly 

 secured, for the gum by which they were fastened was not so liable to scale off. 



Mr. Westwood also stated that the pupa-cases exhibited at the last meeting by 

 Mr. Bond, and then supposed to be those of a species of Galeruca, belonged to a spe- 

 cies of Chilocoris, and had been noticed by De Geer. 



Mr. Stainton exhibited a British species of Micropteryx which he had previously 



overlooked, though it was described by Mr. Stephens under the name of concinnella. 



It appeared that this species was the true Aruncella of Scopoli, and that the insect 



described under that name by Mr. Stainton, in his monograph of the genus, must now 



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