Entomological Society. 7093 



Family Scopulipedes. 



Melissodes rufo-dentatus, Smith. Montreal, August. 



M. denticulata. Smith. A female taten at Montreal in August, 1856, 

 and a male asleep in a head of Hieracium canadense, in the township 

 of De la Wherry, county of Argenteuil, at the end of July, 1858. 



Bombus terricola, Kirby. Appears about the middle of May, and 

 is not very numerous. 



B.fervidusj Fabr. This and the next species are the most abundant 

 Bombi about Montreal. The females appear about the middle of 

 May, and the males are very numerous in August. I took this species 

 up the river Rouge. 



B. ornatus, Smith {iernarius, Say ?). Very abundant, with the last 

 species, at Montreal and St. Hilaire. 



B. vagans, Smith. Montreal, August; rare. 



B. elatusj Fabr. With the last, and at St. Hilaire. 



Apis melli/ica, Linn. Hive-bees are frequently kept in Lower 

 Canada, and the fields, covered with thistles and buckwheat, afford 

 them an inexhaustible supply of honey. 



W. S. M. D'Urban. 



Loudon, May 10, 1860. 



Proceedings of Societies. 

 Entomological Society. 

 June 4, 1860. — J. W. Douglas, Esq., President, iu the chair. 

 Donations. 



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

 the donors: — ' On the Callivalion of Silk at Mussooree, Himalaya Mountains, with 

 Notes on the Treatment of the Silkworm ;' presented by the Author, Capt. Thomas 

 HuttoD, F.G.S., Superintendent of Government Silk Plantations. ' On some New 

 Longicornia from the Moluccas; ' ' On some New Anthribidas ;' by the Author, F. P. 

 Pascoe, Esq. F.L.S., &c. ' The Journal of Entomology,' No. 1 ; by the Proprietors. 

 ' The Zoologist' for June ; by the Editor. ' Proceedings of the Royal Society,' No. 38 ; 

 by the Society. ' Tijdschriftvoor Entomologie,' Vol. ii. Part 6, Vol. ill. Parts 1, 2 and 3; 

 by the Entomological Society of the Nelheilands. 'A Catalogue of the Lepidopterous 

 Insects in the Museum of Natural History at the East-India House,' by Thomas 

 Horsfield, M.D., Ph.D., F.R.S., Keeper of the Museum, and Frederick Moore, 

 Esq., Assistant, Vol. ii. ; by the East India Company. ' The Athenaeum ' for May ; 

 by the Editor. * The Journal of the So(yety of Arts ; ' by the Editor. ' The Ento- 

 mologist's Weekly Intelligencer,' Nos. 188—191 ; by the Editor. 



