2938 Entomological Society. 



Proceedings of the Entomological Society. 



September 2, 1850. — J. F. Stephens, Esq., V. P., in the chair. 



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

 donors : the ' Zoologist' for August and September ; by the Editor. The ' Transac- 

 tions of the Royal Society, 1848,' parts 1 and 2 ; 1849, parts 1 and 2 ; 1850, part 1 ; 

 List of Members, 1849, and Proceedings, No. 70 to 74 ; by the Royal Society. ' En- 

 tomologische Zeitung,' for June and July ; by the Entomological Society of Stettin. 

 ' Bulletin de la Societe Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscow,' 1847, Nos. 3 and 4 ; 

 1848, Nos. 1 to 4 ; 1849, Nos. 1 to 3. 'Specimen Fauns Subterranean ;' by J. C. 

 Schiodte, Copenhagen, 1849 ; and ' Om en afvigende Slagt af Spindlernes Orden,' 

 by J. C. Schiodte ; both presented by the author. A figure of Epunda Lichenea and 

 its larva, drawn and presented by Mr. C. S. Gregson. ' A Letter to Lord Brougham 

 on the Scientific Exploration of Egypt and Ethiopia,' by John James Wild, Civil 

 Engineer of Zurich ; by the author. Specimens, male and female, of Raphiglossa 

 Eumenoides and R. Odyneroides, and a male of Myrmosa conspicua ; by S. S. Saun- 

 ders, Esq. These insects were described in a memoir read on the 3rd of July last. 



Mr. Shepherd exhibited specimens of Rhodaria sanguiualis taken at New 

 Brighton, by Mr. C. S. Gregson ; also some black varieties of Elachista Linneella, 

 taken near London. 



Mr. S. Stevens exhibited a male and female of a beautiful variety of Ornithoptera 

 Priamus from Richmond River, New Holland ; specimens of Amphimalla verna, 

 Meg. ? found by Captain Parry at Tenby, and of Rhagiuin indagator, Callidium stri- 

 atum, Cetonia ffinea and Pytho depressus, taken by Mr. Weaver in the Black Forest, 

 Perthshire. 



Mr. Douglas exhibited — 



Odontia dentalis, found on Echium vulgare at Folkstone, in July. 



Roslerstammia granitella, Xanthosetia inopiana, Eupancilia udana ? and Sericoris 

 fuligana, Haw., found on Inula dysenterica, also at Folkstone, in July. 



Adela Dumerillella ? Tinea angusticostella, Pterophorus baliodactylus, Gelechia 

 ? and Argyresthia Sorbiella on Pyrus Sorbus (Service), at Mickleham, in 



July. 



Penthina ■ ? in June, and Gelechia peliella, in August, at West Wickham. 



Depressaria atomella, and Catoptria ? in August, at Charlton Sandpit. 



Gelechia Inulella, Curtis, and G. bifractella, Mann, bred in July and August from 

 seed-heads of Inula dysenterica. 



Gelechia, n. s., bred in August, from seed-heads of Carlina vulgaris. 



Gelechia, n. s., bred in August, from leaves of Cirsium lanceolatum, in which the 

 larva mines, feeding on the parenchyma only. 



Pterophorus lithodactylus, bred from leaves of Inula dysenterica. 



Mr. Westwood stated that in July, Lymexylon navale appeared from the oak- 

 timber in Plymouth Dockyard in thousands, and he had learned that they did not 

 continue in the perfect state longer than a fortnight, a circumstance he thought worthy 

 of note, as if availed of, their destruction might be more easily accomplished. The 

 experiment of placing the timber in the steam-tank for ten hours had been tried, 

 and found perfectly effectual in destroying the larvae. He was likewise informed that 

 the timber affected was quite sound when received four years since. Mr. Westwood 



