2972 Insects, $c. 



Note on Lepidoptera, Sf-c. — I can easily suppose an editor's patience must be 

 sorely tried by MSS. of careless correspondents, and, therefore, neither wonder at nor 

 complain of your castigation in the ' Zoologist' (Zool. 2899). I have not had leisure 

 to recur to the subject before. Should what I now send be eligible for your pages, 

 you will, I think, find it more carefully penned. The portion rejected from my Au- 

 gust address, merely urged your readers to look carefully soon after Midsummer next 

 year for Xanthosetia Inopiana, on the Inula dysenterica, as I found it numerous on 

 that plant in damp localities, about the 6th of July, but so worn as to show me I was 

 too late in the season. Am I solitary in my experience of the scarcity (comparative 

 in all cases, and absolute in some) of the Ehopalocera this year ? I have not seen one 

 Vanessa Cardui, and even Atalanta is unfrequent. I am now taking petiificata and 

 semibrunnea on the ivy, but nothing else worth naming. — J. Allen Hill; Almondsbury 

 House, October 10, 1850. 



Proceedings of the Entomological Society. 



Nov. 4, 1850. — G. K. Waterhouse, Esq., President, in the chair. 



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

 respective donors : The ' Zoologist ' for November ; presented by the Editor. ' Lecture 

 on Blights,' by F. Plomley, Esq., M.D. ; presented by the Author. ' Fauna Japonica, 

 Auctore Ph. F. De Siebold ; Crustacea, elaborante W. De Haan, 1850;' presented 

 by Herr De Haan, Hon. For. M.E.S. ' Memoiies de la Societe des Sciences de 

 •'Agriculture at des Arts de Lille, 1842 — 9;' presented by the Society. 'Enumera- 

 tion des Insectes qui Consomment les Tabacs,' by M. Guerin-Meneville ; ' Essai sur 

 les Maladies des Vers a Soie,' by M. Guerin-Meneville; 'Analyse des Experimens 

 sur la Muscardine,' by M. Guerin-Meneville; all presented by the Author. 



The Rev. Joseph Green, Miss Stopford, and Mr. Thomas Thompson were bal- 

 loted for and elected Subscribers of the Society. 



Mr. Westwood mentioned that M. Guerin had observed that the structure of the 

 blood in diseased silkworms, was found, when viewed under microscopes of high 

 powers, to be considerably altered. The small granules, which in the healthy blood 

 were found to be oval, or round ; in the diseased blood became elongated, and then 

 branched ; thus, apparently turning from an animal into the vegetable substance 

 known as muscardine. 



Mr. Shepherd exhibited an Hermaphrodite Nonagria Cannae, of which, however, 

 both the antennae were male. 



Mr. S. Stevens exhibited some cocoons of a Bombyx from Columbia, in each of 

 three of which he had found two pupa?. He also exhibited the four new species 

 of Australian Coleoptera, Clytus bicinctus, Saperda bilabilis, Cerambyx subserratus 

 and Agasma semicrudum, described by Mr. Newman in the 'Zoologist.' 



Mr. Stevens also exhibited some specimens of insect economy, brought from South 

 Australia by Mr. Mossman. 



Mr. J. F. Stephens exhibited specimens from Scotland, of Dietvopterus Aurora, 



