3364 Zoological Society. — Entomological Society. 



Asterias aurantiaca. 



Ophiocoma neglecta. Beneath stones below Sandsfoot Castle. 



Ophiura texturata. Weymouth Bay. 



Spatangus purpureus. Rare. 



Arnphidotus cordatus. Not uncommon on Smallmouth Sands. 



The Chesil Bank, towards Portland, after heavy gales from the 

 westward, is a rich collecting-ground, especially for Zoophytes, and 

 at times the beautiful Gorgonia verrucosa may be found in perfection. 



This is very far from being a complete marine Fauna of Weymouth, 

 and a whole volume would not exhaust its resources, but I hope the 

 above will induce my friend Mr. Thompson, who I believe is now the 

 only resident collector of those interesting objects, to supply its defi- 

 ciencies, as well as other contributors to the 'Zoologist,' who may hap- 

 pen to visit this favourite watering-place. 



William F. Templer. 



Buddleigh, Salterton, Devon, December 18, 1851. 



Proceedings of the Zoological Society. 



Monthly General Meeting, January 1, 1852. — W. J. B rode rip, Esq., V.P., in the 

 chair. 



Messrs. A. B. Hope, M.P., J. D. Gordon, and G. R. Gray, were elected Fellows. 



Messrs. J. H. Gurney, T. Lacy, G. Gillett, R. O'Brien Jameson, and Miss Burdett 

 Coutts, were proposed as candidates for the Fellowship. 



The Report of the Council stated that the total number of visitors to the Gardens 

 during the year 1851, had been 667,243, and exhibited au increase over the year 1850 

 of 306,841. The most important additions to the Menagerie during the last month, 

 consisted of an Apteryx, presented by Lieut. Governor Eyre, which had been brought 

 from New Zealand by Capt. Erskine, R.N. ; a Weka (Ocydromus australis), also from 

 New Zealand, which had been presented by Capt. Stokes, R.N., late of H. M. S. Ache- 

 son ; and two specimens of Boa diviniloqua, presented by Lieut. Forman, of Her 

 Majesty's 88th regiment.— D. W. M. 



Proceedings of the Entomological Society. 



January 5, 1852. — J. 0. Westwood, Esq., President, in the chair. 



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

 donors : — ' Bulletin de la Societe Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou,' Nos. 3 and 

 4, 1850, and No. 1, 1851 ; by the Society. ' Insecta Caffrariae, annis 1838—45, a J. 

 A. Wahlberg collecta, descripsit C. H. Boehman ; pars 1, fuse. 2. — Coleoptera : ' 

 Holmia), 1851 ; by the author. * The Entomologists' Companion, being a Guide to 

 the collection of Micro-Lepidoptera,' by H. T. Stainton: London, 1852; by the Author. 

 k The Zoologist' for January ; by the Editor. 'The Literary Gazette' for January ; 



