2834 Entomological Society. 



Proceedings of the Entomological Society. 



May 6, 1850. — J. F. Stephens, Esq., V. P., in the cbair. 



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

 donors: ' Isis von Oken,' Heft 3, 4, 8, 9 and 10 ; presented by Herr Zeller, Honorary 

 Member. ' Entomologische Zeituug,' for March ; presented by the Entomological 

 Society of Stettin. Specimens of Scleroderma cylindrica, Westw.,a.ndi S. pedunculata, 

 Westw.; also pupae of an Odynerus from Briars, and of Hylaeus, by Mr. S. S. 

 Saunders, in illustration of his memoir read at the last meeting. 



The following gentlemen were balloted for and elected Members of the Society : 

 Francis Walker, Esq. ; Samuel Waring, Esq., of Norwood; and Alexander Murray, 

 Esq., of Shenley, Herts. And the following were balloted for and elected Subscribers 

 to the Society : Dr. Lowe, of Balgreen, Slateford, N. B. ; Samuel Nevill Ward, Esq., 

 of the Hon. E. I. C. Civil Service, Madras. 



Mr. Shepherd exhibited two specimens of Lobophora polycommata, W. V., and an 

 extensive series of Micropteryx purpurella, Haw., and semipurpurella, St., recently 

 taken at Darenth Wood. Among the semipurpurella was one remarkable albino 

 variety. 



Mr. Stainton exhibited specimens of Micropteryx purpurella, semipurpurella, and 

 unimaculella taken at West Wickham ; he also exhibited nine species of Ornix, 

 forming the Meleagripennella group of that genus, six of these were British, including 

 one new species he had taken the preceding week in Devonshire ; he also exhibited a 

 specimen of Bedellia Orpheella, taken by Mr. H. Cooke, of Brighton, and stated that 

 the specific name of this insect must sink, as it had .been previously described by 

 Zeller under the name of Opostega somnulentella ; and he had likewise brought for 

 exhibition a specimen of Aleucis pictaria, taken by Mr. Ellman near Lewes. 



Mr. S. S. Saunders exhibited a female Stylops extracted from the abdomen of An- 

 drena Trimmerana, after the death of the bee; also two male specimens of the same 

 bee, one with a female Stylops in the abdomen, and the other with the exuviae of a 

 male visible. 



Mr. J. F. Stephens exhibited three new species of British Micro-Lepidoptera, viz., 

 Stigmonota dorsana, from Scotland ; Tinea Caprimulgella, Von Heyden, and a De- 

 pressaria. 



Mr. Adam White exhibited a new Coleopterous insect, forming a new sub-genus of 

 the family Languriadae, for which he proposed the name Doubledaya viator, in honour 

 of the late Edward Doubleday, and read a description of it, of which the following is 

 an abstract. 



" Head decumbent, in front at the base of the jaws expanded and wider than the 

 thorax. Thorax as wide as long, margined on the sides, bisinuate at the base, grooved 

 down the middle. Legs very long, the two first pairs somewhat the longest, the 

 femora and tibiae compressed ; tarsi very widely dilated, flat, all the joints wider than 

 long. 



" Head and thorax highly polished, ferruginous, the elytra of a pale ochreous red, 

 and with from eight to nine thickly punctured longitudinal parallel striae. 



" This insect is a native of Madras, in the East Indies, the specimen described is 

 unique in the collection of the East India Company." 



Mr. Fortnum exhibited two species of Locusta captured near Frankfort, from one 



