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is not yet. I should mention that the glass is considerably shaded by a tall hedge at 

 the back of the hive, only two feet removed from it. — P. V. M. Filleul ; * Ross, He- 

 refordshire, Jane 8, 1852. 



Proceedings of the Entomological Society. 



June 7, 1852. — J. O. Westwood, Esq., President, in the chair. 



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

 donors : — 'A List of the Specimens of British Animals in the Collection of the Bri- 

 tish Museum. — Lepidoptera (continued). 1852.' By J. F. Stephens, Esq., F.L.S. ; 

 presented by the Author. ' Statuten und Namen des Mitglieder des Miinchener Ve- 

 reins fur Naturkunde.' ' Isis,' Nos. 1, 2, 4, and 6, 1850. ' Systema Insectorum,' torn, 

 i. Coleoptera, Fasc. 1, Mantichora — Dromica : Monachii, 1837, auctore Dr. J. Gistl. 

 All presented by Dr. Gistl. ' Transactions of the Zoological Society of London,' 

 Vol. iv. part 2, 1852 ; by the Society. A Portrait of Signor Passerini, Hon. M.E.S.; 

 by the Rev. F. W. Hope. ' The Zoologist' for June; by the Editor. ' The Literary 

 Gazette ' for May ; by the Publishers. A specimen in the finest condition of Morpho 

 Cytheris; by T. J. Stevens, Esq., Bogota. 



Capt. T. Hamilton, of the Indian Army, was elected a Member of the Society. 



Mr. Adam White mentioned that a specimen of Acherontia Atropos had been cap- 

 tured at Bressay, one of the Shetland Islands, by Miss Mouatt, of that place, the first 

 instance known of the occurrence of the species so far north in Britain. 



Mr. A. F. Sheppard exhibited a remarkably fine specimen of Notodonta Carme- 

 lita, taken by Mr. Harrison, of Keswick, on a birch tree near that place ; also, on 

 behalf of Mr. N. Cooke, of Warrington, a specimen of Notodonta trepida, reared with 

 others from eggs found in May, 1851, upon a beech tree in Petty Pool Wood, Dela- 

 mere Forest : the larva? fed on oak-leaves. Mr. Sheppard also exhibited some speci- 

 mens of Cemiostoma Laburnella, which he had beaten out of ivy, remarking that he 

 could get none from the laburnums, although there were several of those trees in his 

 garden. 



Mr. Hunter exhibited a specimen of Notodonta Carmelita, which he bred on the 

 8th of May, from a larva beaten out of an oak at Black Park last year. 



Mr. Waring exhibited two specimens of Retinia Turionella, one of which he had 

 reared from a shoot of Scotch fir from West W^ickham Wood : also a specimen of An- 

 tithesia pralongana, from the same locality. 



Mr. Edwin Shepherd exhibited two specimens of Trochilium Culiciforme, reared 

 from larvae found in a stump of birch ; also the Ichneumon parasitic on the larvae of 

 this species, with its cocoon. He likewise exhibited Notodonta trepida, three speci- 

 mens of the rare Xylina conspioillaris, Cerata Servillana, and Anchylopera Upupana, 

 all taken at Darcuth Wood in May. 



Mr. Douglas exhibited specimens of Nepticula aurella, reared from bramble-leaves, 

 and the cocoons formed by the larvae after they left the leaves in which they had fed ; 



* By mistake printed Filland at p. WVM), and subsequent pages. 



