Entomological Society. 3069 



Major E. Sheppard, F.L.S., Bellefield House, Parsons Green, Augustus Shep- 

 pard, Esq., Bellefield House, Parsons Green, and J. Mcintosh, Esq., Charminster, 

 -near Dorchester, were balloted for and elected members of the Society. 



Mr. S. Stevens exhibited a new butterfly (Thormantis Howqua) Westwood MSS., 

 and two specimens of the Papilio Telamon of Donovan, both recently taken by Mr. 

 Fortune, in the north of China. 



The President remarked that the last species was especially interesting, although 

 the specimens were in bad condition, for no example had been seen since the time of 

 Donovan, and not one was known to be now in existence ; and the examination of 

 these had shown that the species was not a true Papilio, but formed a new genus be- 

 tween Thais and Teinopalpus. 



Mr. Saunders exhibited some Lepidoptera from Brazil, remarkable for the great 

 size of their projecting palpi, simulating the appearance presented by the peculiar 

 legs of the genus Polypogon. 



The President exhibited some galls found on vines, sent to him by Sir O. Mosley, 

 Bart. No insect had yet been reared from them ; indeed in many that he had ex- 

 amined, no insect was present, but in one he had found a larva which appeared to 

 belong to a species of Curculionidae. 



Mr. Douglas and Mr. Stainton exhibited some twigs of yew, from Mickleham 

 and Worksop, in which the growth had been stopped, and the agglomeration of the 

 terminal leaves had caused the formation of a knob about the size of a hazel-nut. In 

 some of these a small lepidopterous larva had been found, which was probably the 

 cause of the arrested development : and Mr. Douglas adverting to a conversation 

 about the food of Ditula angustiorana which took place on the 4th of February, 1850, 

 at this Society's meeting, suggested that these might be the larva? of that species of 

 TortricidEe. 



Mr. Stainton mentioned that during the past week he had seen in the seed-vessels 

 of common furze, fully developed specimens of Oxystoma Ulicis, apparently waiting 

 until their cells should open. 



Mr. Lubbock exhibited some small globular nests, apparently of a spider, attached 

 to stems of grass, but they were untenanted. 



Mr. Douglas exhibited a somewhat singular nest, found last week at Mickleham, 

 on the ground, formed between leaves still attached to the twig of beech on which 

 they had grown, and the architect, a spider, accompanied it. 



Mr. Stainton exhibited a small bunch of evergreen oak, the leaves on which were 

 mined by the larvae of a Lithocolletis, observing as a fact he had noticed, that Lithocol- 

 letis larva? feeding on the leaves of deciduous trees, passed the winter in the pupa 

 state, but in evergreens, they remained larva? until the spring. 



Mr. W. W. Saunders read a memoir ' Upon the Insects injurious to the Cotton 

 Plant,' of which the following is an abstract. 



" Having had my attention called to the insects injurious to the cotton-plant, I 

 have been seeking for information from a variety of sources, but discover with sur- 

 prise that the insects in question have beeu but very little studied, although it is evi- 

 dent from the published accounts of their ravages, the amount of loss to the planter 

 must at times be very great. The particulars which have hitherto appeared regarding 

 the cotton-moth, cut-worm or grub, cotton-bug, Apate monochus or bore-worm, will 

 be found in Porter's ' Tropical Agriculturalist,' and Dr. Ure's ' History of the Cotton 

 Manufacture,' but the information is very unsatisfactory and entirely wanting in that 



