3466 Entomological Society. 



4. * On a new Species of Goose from China, collected by the late Lieut. Ince, at 

 Shanghae,' by John Gould, Esq., F.R.S. This goose resembles the gray lag goose 

 (Anser ferus) in the form of the bill, but the upper and under mandibles, together with 

 their terminal points, are black, and there is a light-coloured space or bar between the 

 nostrils and the end of the bill. In the general colour of the plumage, the bird has a 

 strong resemblance to the bean goose (Anser segetum) ; it differs, however, from this 

 last in size, and in its thick and powerful bill, which is further characterized by being 

 unusually strongly serrated. Mr. Bartlett, who had made a special study of the geese, 

 fully confirmed Mr. Gould's opinion of the specific value of the bird in question, and 

 the author proposed to distinguish it by the name of Anser serrirostis. 



Mr. Augustus Smith exhibited an interesting young specimen of the whiskered 

 tern, killed in Scilly.— D. W. M. 



Proceedings of the Entomological Society. 



April 5, 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 April ; by the Editor. ' The Athenaeum ' for Febru- 

 ary and March ; by the Editor. ' The Literary Gazette ' for March ; by the Publish- 

 ers. ' Entomologische Zeitung ' for February and March, and ' Linnaea Entomolo- 

 gical Sechster Band ; by the Entomological Society of Stettin. ' Revue et Magasin 

 de Zoologie,* 1851, Nos. 11 and 12, 1852, Nos. 1 and 2; by M. Guerin Meneville. 

 * Descrizione di alcune specie dTnsetti Fossili,' and ' Catalogo dei Crostacei Italiani 

 e di molti altri del Mediterraneo : ' both by the Rev. F. W. Hope, and presented by 

 the Author. * Nature's Teaching,' a Lecture read at the Annual Meeting of the Wor- 

 cestershire Natural History Society, October 8, 1851 ; by the Rev. D. Melville: pre- 

 sented by the Author. ' Bulletin de la Societe Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou, 1 

 1851, No. 2 ; by the Society. ' Proceedings of the Royal Society,' Vol. vi. No. 82— 

 85 ; by the Society. ' Monographic des Guepes Solitaires, ou de la Tribu des Eume- 

 niens,' par H. F. de Saussure. Cahir 1, Paris, 1852 ; by the Author. ' Entomogra- 

 phie de la Russie,' par G. Fischer de Waldheim. Tome v. : Lepidopteres — Nym- 

 phalides. Moscou, 1851 ; by the Author. A box of Brazilian insects; by Viscount 

 Goderich, through Mr. Curtis. A box of British Micro-Lepidoptera ; by Mr. Bedell. 



The Rev. J. F. Dawson, Woodlands, near Bedford, was elected a Member ; and 

 W. Lancey, Esq., Westminster, was elected a Subscriber to the Society. 



Mr. Adam White exhibited some insects, collected by Dr. Joseph Hooker in the 

 Himalaya, directing attention to the Homopterous Urophora Hardwickii, of which 

 the male was seen to possess the same kind of hairy tail-like appendage as the female, 

 in which sex it had been considered to be the ovipositor. Mr. White remarked that 

 the Lepidopterous genus Trichura, Hiibner, founded on the Sphinx coarctata, Drury 

 (Zygnena caudata, Fabr.), had a somewhat analogous structure, though much more 

 scaled. He also pointed out Derepteryx Hardwickii, a Nepalese species of Coreida?, 

 apparently a male specimen* 



Mr. White also exhibited some insects, chiefly Coleoptcra, collected by Dr. Thomp- 

 son, of the Hon. East India Company's Service, in Little Thibet, at an elevation of 



