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Proceedings of the Entomological Society. 



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June 3rd, 1850. — G. R. Waterhouse, Esq., President in the chair. 



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

 donors : ' Entoinologische Zeitung,' for April ; by the Entomological Society of 

 Stettin. 'Descriptions of three new Coleopterous Insects, by Messrs. Mulsant, CI. 

 Rey and Wachanru ;' by M. Mulsant. ' Directions for Collecting and Preserving 

 Specimens of Natural History in Tropical Climates ;' by the author, Mr. S. Stevens. 



The following gentlemen were balloted for and elected- Subscribers : Mr. R. W. 

 Meade, Bradford; Mr. C. R. Bree, Stowmarket; and Mr. John Dashwood, Barton- 

 under-Needwood, Lichfield. 



Mr. Bedell exhibited Depressaria assimilella, reared from larvae found on broom ; 

 Lithocolletis hortella and Tinea Zinckenii, from West Wickham wood; Ctenostoma 

 Laburnella ? from fences near Beckenham ; and Coccyx Strobilella, reared from cones 

 of spruce-fir. 



Mr. J. F. Stephens exhibited a shoot of Ribes sanguineum which had been quite 

 killed by Coccus Serpul&formis, numbers of which were on the bark ; he also stated 

 that branches of apple-trees, in his garden, were killed by Coccus Mytilliformis. 



Mr. Shepherd exhibited a specimen of Cloantha conspicillaris recently caught 

 flying at Darenth Wood. 



Mr. Westwood exhibited the male and female of Lyda fasciata, one of our rarest 

 Hymenoptera ; also a shoot of a pear-tree on which the larvae of this species had fed, 

 showing the damage done by them. He observed, that he had taken them emerging 

 from the earth, under the surface of which they had undergone their final change. 

 He also exhibited leaves of a pear-tree attacked by a Lepidopterous case-making 

 larvae, probably Coleophora Hemerobiella; and he made some observations on the 

 peculiar mode adopted by these curious larvae to obtain the parenchyma of the 

 leaves, on which alone they subsisted ; and as some damage might accrue to the trees 

 from their attack, he thought it desirable that it should be discovered when and where 

 the eggs were deposited. 



Mr. S. S. Saunders exhibited pupa-cases of Rhopalum tibiale, from a raspberry 

 snag, from which the perfect insects had issued towards the end of May. 



Mr. Stainton exhibited specimens of Lithocolletis tenella, hitherto one of our 

 rarest species, but which he found abundant on hornbeam, at Wanstead, in May ; 

 also a species of the same genus, found at the same time and place, which was the 

 Ilicifoliella of his catalogue, and which he now proposed to call Carpinicolella ; also 

 three specimens of Micropteryx mansuetella, recently taken by Mr. C. R. Bree, in 

 company with M. Calthella, at Northfield Wood, near Stowmarket, on Mercurialis 

 perennis. 



Mr. S. Stevens exhibited Dryophila Anobioides and Hylastes rhododactylus, also 

 the stump of broom from Plumstead Wood, from which he had obtained them. He 

 also exhibited a new species of Dorytomus, allied to D. taeniatus, from Wimbledon 

 Common ; Pogonus Burrellii, found in soft mud on the shore at Sheerness ; splendidly 

 coloured specimens of Lixus bicolor, from Deal, and Psyche retiella, from Southend ; 

 the last insect he thought was attached to Plantago maritima. 



Mr. W. W. Saunders exhibited some insects set up as specimens of the method of 

 preserving and displaying used by Mr. Ernard, who was about to proceed to Surinam 

 on a collecting expedition. With them were some spiders, of which the form and 

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