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projecting from the mouti). Tlie opposite etui of the meat was jnst inside the rim of 

 the other disk, further than which it could not go. The next morning the food had 

 been digested, and was being at the same titne rejected bj both the mouths, showing, 

 if proof were needed, that they led to the same stomach.— /</. 



Proceedbigs of Societies. 



Entomological Society. 

 April 2, I860.— J. W Douglas, Esq., President, in the chair. 

 Donations. 



The following donations were announced, and thanks ordered to be presented to 

 the donors: — ' The Zoologist ' for April ; presented by the Editor. ' The Proceedings 

 of the Zoological Society of London,' 1859, Part 3 ; by the Society. 'Journal of the 

 Proceedings of the Linnean Society,' Supplement to Vol. iv. Botany ; by the Society. 

 ' Exotic Butterflies,' Part 34 ; by W. W. Saunders, Esq. ' The Journal of the 

 Society of Arts ' for March ; by the Editor. ' The Literary Gazette' for March ; by 

 the Editor. 



Elections. 



Dr. E. Candeze, of Liege, Belgium, was elected a Member ; and George Seaton, 

 Esq., of Trinity Square, Brixlon, and J. C. Young, Esq., of Redwood House, 

 Bromley, were elected Subscribers to the Society. 



Exhibitions. 



The President exhibited some specimens of a species of Trogoderraa, which had 

 bred in great numbers in rice imported from Akyab, about two years since, and now 

 at Hibernia Wharf, London Bridge ; he also exhibited a quantity of the damaged 

 rice in which, he was informed, the larva had increased to a great extent within the 

 last nine months. 



Mr. Stevens exhibited some splendid Lepidoptera sent from Batchian by Mr. 

 Wallace, amongst which were beautiful examples of both sexes of Ornithoptera 

 Croesus, Papilio Orumnus, P. Deiphobus, P. Codrus, and a fine new species allied to 

 P. Peranthus ; also a small Hestia, very distinct from any described species. 



Mr. Lewis exhibited a damaged example of Telephorus atra, Linn., a species not 

 hitherto recorded as a native of Britain ; the specimen exhibited had been taken in 

 Scotland by Mr. John Scott, and determined by Mr. F. Smith and himself, by com- 

 parison with continental examples in the British iMuseutn collection. 



Mr. Janson exhibited some Coleoplera taken at Raunoch by Mr. C. Turner. 

 Mr. Westwood observed, with reference to the large species of Briichus, 

 exhibited at the last December meeting by Dr. Wallace, as infesting the interior 

 of the nest of the Coqtiilla (Attalea funifera of Brazil), that there appeared 

 from an investigation which he had made with a view to the determination of the 

 species in question, to be considerable confusion in the nomenclature of the species 

 allied to Bruchus Baclrisof Linnaeus. That name had been given to a species which 



