Entomological Society. 3437 



March 2, 1852. — Eobeet Brown, Esq., President, in the chair. 



Thomas Thompson, Esq., M.D., was elected a Fellow. 



Numerous donations were announced, including several volumes of Messrs. Webb 

 and Berthelot's work on the 'Natural History of the Canaries;' presented by Mr. 

 Webb : and a collection of specimens of about 150 species of plants, from the herba- 

 rium of the late Dr. Sibthorp, either figured in the 'Flora Graeca' or described in the 

 ' Prodromus.' 



Mr. Hope exhibited drawings of Australian Lepidoptera and their transformations, 

 made from the living insects by Harriet and Helena Scott, with descriptions by Mr. 

 A. W. Scott, and which are intended for publication. Extracts from a notice of these 

 drawings by Mr. Swainson, were read by the Secretary. 



Mr. Hope also exhibited a remarkably large cone of Araucaria Bidwellii, from 

 Moreton Bay ; and gave some interesting information relative to the dimensions at- 

 tained by that tree, describing it as being hardly equal in height to the Norfolk-Island 

 pine (Araucaria excelsa), although in size far exceeding all other known species of the 

 genus. 



Mr. Adam White exhibited specimens of two large Hemiptera from China, lent 

 by Mr. Fortune. The colour of one of these (the Eurostus validus of Dallas), when 

 dry, was a dull brownish red, but when alive, or preserved in spirits, the most brilliant 

 metallic grass green : the specimens of this were both dry and in spirits. Mr. White 

 made some observations on colour as a specific character, showing its value when de- 

 rived from mechanical causes, such as the polarization of light on striated surfaces, or 

 the filling up of cells with fluids in Eurostus, Cassidae, Scutellerae, and other insects. 



Read, a further continuation of Mr. Woods' 'Notes on a Botanical Tour in France.' 



March 16, 1852. — Kobeet Brown, Esq., President, in the chair. 



Among the donations was announced a posthumous work on the Palms of British 

 East India, from the papers of the late William Griffith, Esq., by Mr. John M'Clel- 

 land; presented by the Hon. East India Company. 



Bead, the conclusion of Mr. Woods' ' Botanical Notes of a Tour in France.' Also, 

 a paper ' On the Habits of Myrmica domestica, Shuck., and on a means of applying 

 the industry of this minute species of Ant to the preparation of skeletons of small ani- 

 mals ; ' by Mr. George Daniell. 



Proceedings of the Entomological Society. 



March 1, 1852. — J. O. Westwood, Esq., President, in the chair. 



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

 donors : — ' The Zoologist,' for March ; by the Editor. 'The Literary Gazette,' for 

 February ; by the Publishers. ' Entomologische Zeitung,' for November ; by the En- 

 tomological Society of Stettin. ' Exotic Butterflies, being Illustrations of new Species 

 selected chiefly from the collections of William Wilson Saunders and William C. 

 Hewitson : with coloured drawings and descriptions of each species.' By W. C. Hew- 

 itson. Part I ; presented by W. W. Saunders, Esq. ' Ueber den Character der Tn- 

 secten-Fauna von Siid-Persien ;' von V. Kollar & Dr. L. Redtenbacher. 'Beitrag 

 zur Entvvicklungsgeschichte eines neuen Blattlausartigen Insectes, Acanthochermes 

 Quercus,' von V. Kollar, ' Ueber Weinbeschiidigung durch einen kleinen Nachfal- 



