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Proceedings of the Zoological Society. 



Monthly General Meeting, July 4. — Sir P. de Malpas Geey Egerton, Bt., M.P., 

 in the chair. 



Miss Bertrand, A. N. Armani, Esq., W. P. Wood, Esq., M.P., J. Thrupp, Esq., 

 J. Taylor, Esq., Richard Blakemore, Esq., M.P., and J. P. Stocker, Esq., were elected 

 as Fellows. The Hon. A. Russell, The Hon. G. Campbell, Capt. R. N., Sir J. 

 Ramsden, Bt, The Earl of Abergavenny, Capt. C. Wynne Payne, H. Padwick, Esq., 

 and J. J. Cumings, Esq., were proposed as candidates for the Fellowship. Arthur 

 Walker, Esq., of Pietre Maritzberg, was proposed as a Corresponding Member. 



The Report of the Council stated that the Menagerie now included upwards of 

 1500 animals : that the receipts during the month of June were greater than those of 

 any similar period since the foundation of the Society ; that the number of visitors 

 during the first six months of the present year had been 156,432 : and that this num- 

 ber exceeded the corresponding period of 1849, by 82,449. 



Proceedings of the Entomological Society. 



July 1, 1850. — William Spence, Esq., V. P., in the chair. 



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

 donors : ' Annals of Lyceum of Nat. Hist. New York,' Sept. 1848 ; by the Lyceum. 

 ' Entomologische Zeitung,' for May ; by the Entomological Society of Stettin. 

 ' Statuten und Namen der Mitglieder des Munchener Vereins fur Naturkunde, and 

 Isis, 1850, No. 1 ;' by the Munich Natural History Society. 'On the Pselaphidae of 

 the United States ' and a ' Synopsis of the Cloridse of the United States ; ' by the au- 

 thor, Dr. John L. Le Conte. 



Four impaled Bombi (exhibited at the preceding meeting) ; by Mr. Gould. Spe- 

 cimens of Apion Sedi and Pogonus Burrellii ; by Mr. S. Stevens. A collection of 

 Lepidoptera ; by Mr. Douglas. 



John Lubbock, Esq., of High Elms, near Farnborough, and the Rev. Hamlet 

 Clark, of Northampton, were elected members of, and John Walker, Esq., of Chester- 

 field, was elected a subscriber to the Society. 



The President announced that the prize offered for the best monograph of a genus 

 of Tortrices, had been awarded and sent to Mr. Logan for a monograph of the genus 

 Penthina. 



The President also announced that the Council had appointed Mr. E. W. Janson, 

 Curator to the Society. 



Mr. S. Stevens exhibited living specimens of Gracilia minuta, with the willow 

 basket-lid in which they had bred ; also Sericoris littorana reared from thrift (Statice 

 armeria) growing below Gravesend, and Elachista rufocinerea and E. cemsella taken 

 in copula. He also exhibited a Psecadia funerella, taken early in June, near Kirkby 

 Stephen, Westmoreland, by Mr. Hewitson. 



Mr. Bond exhibited several Psecadia funerella from Whittlesea Mere ; also Chilo 

 mucronellus, Nascia cilialis, Eupithecia sparsata, and Zeuzera arundinis, from the 

 same locality. 



Mr. J. F. Stephens exhibited pupa-cases of Zeuzera arundinis protruding from 

 reeds in which the larvae had fed ; and Mr. Bond stated that the pupa, although pos- 



