3564 Entomological Society. 



Proceedings of the Entomological Society. 



July 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 July ; by the Editor. 'The Literary Gazette' for 

 June; by the Publishers. ' Transactions of the Linnean Society,' vol. xxi., parti: 

 1 Proceedings of the Linnean Society,' 1851, Nos. 45, 46, 47: 'List of the Linnean 

 Society,' 1851 ; all by the Society. ' Exotic Butterflies,' by W. C. Hewitson, part 3 ; 

 by W. W. Saunders, Esq. ' Entotnologische Zeitung,' May and June ; by the Ento- 

 mological Society of Stettin. ' Ueber die Lebenswiese der Termiten und ihre Ber- 

 breitung,' von Dr. H. Hagen ; by the author. ' Bericht iiber die wissenchaftliehen 

 Leistungen im Gebiete der Entomologie wahrend des Jahres 1849,' von Dr. H. 

 Schaum. Berlin, 1851 ; by the Author. ' Proceedings of the Royal Society,' vol. vi. 

 No. 87 ; by the Society. ' iEdes Hartwellianae, or Notices of the Manor and Man- 

 sion of Hartwell,' by Captain W. H. Smyth, R.N., F.R.S., Sec. London, 1851 ; pre- 

 sented by Capt. Smyth and Dr. Lee, F.R.S., &c. ' A List of the British Fossorial 

 Hymenoptera ; ' by S. Bagster, Esq. ' The Athenaeum,' for June ; by the Editor. A 

 fine specimen of Lucanus Cervus, brought from the Pyrenees by W. D. West, Esq. ; 

 by D. W. Mitchell, Esq., Sec. Z.S. Bred specimens of Halias clorana; by A. F. 

 Sheppard, Esq. Two specimens of Diglossa meisa, taken on the 26ih of June, on 

 the coast at Baldoyle, near Dublin ; presented by the captor, A. R. Hogan, Esq. Co- 

 coons of silk from the north of China, and specimens of Apate Bambusee, Spence, 

 MSS.; by Mr. Douglas. 



Henry Haseldine, Esq., 25, Whitehead's Grove, Chelsea, was elected a Subscriber 

 to the Society. 



Mr. E. W. Janson, on the part of A. R. Hogan, Esq., exhibited a Lepidopterous 

 larva, from tlie segments of which proceed several elongate fungus-like excrescences, 

 and concerning which Mr. Hogan communicates the following : — 



" All the account I can give you of this singular creature is, that having found it 

 some time last winter (in January, I think) when I was busily engaged with other 

 matters, without identification or examination I threw it into a chrysalis-box which 

 contained both moss and clay; in the former of these it disappeared, and I saw no- 

 thing more of it, till on preparing to start for England in May last, 1 cleared but the 

 box, and found it dead, precisely in the state you will now see." 



Mr. Douglas exhibited a bamboo fan, one of a case-full imported from China two 

 or three years since, and all of which were now found to be eaten through and through 

 by Apate Bambusae. 



The Secretary announced that the annual field-day meeting of the Society was held 

 at Mickleham on the 26th of June ; when captures of several rare insects were made, 

 some of which he exhibited. 



Mr. Douglas exhibited the curious larva-case of Tinea proletella, found by him 

 on the 9th of April at West Wickham Wood, feeding on Geum urbanum. He also 

 exhibited specimens of a new Lithocolletis, which he proposed to call L. Scabiosella, 

 ha \ i ii <z found the larvae mining the radical leaves of Scabiosa Columbaria, growing at 

 the side of the old tram-road beyond Croydon. 



