Entomological Society. 3661 



Proceedings of the Entomological Society. 



October 4, 1852. — J. O. Westwood, Esq., President, in the chair. 



Since the last meeting the Society has removed from No. 17, Old Bond Street, to 

 more eligible apartments at No. 12, Bedford Row ; but the painting of the meeting- 

 room not being completed, the Zoological Society kindly permitted this meeting to be 

 held at their house in Hanover Square, for which favour the meeting passed a vote of 

 thanks. 



Mr. Wallace was present as a visitor. He has lost the whole of the valuable 

 collections of Natural History, made by him during several years' residence in South 

 America, by the burning at sea of the ship in which he was bringing them to this coun- 

 try, and he narrowly escaped death in an open boat, from which, after long privation 

 and suspense, and while yet in the midst of the Atlantic Ocean, he and others were 

 taken up by a vessel bound to London. 



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

 donors: — The ' Zoologist ' and the ' Phytologist ' for October ; by the Editor. ' The 

 Literary Gazette ' for September ; by the Publishers. ' Revue et Magasin de Zoolo- 

 gie,' 1852, Nos. 6 and 7 ; by M. Guerin-Meneville. 'The Athenaeum ' for August 

 and September ; by the Editor. Hewitson's ' Exotic Butterflies,' part 4 : by W. W. 

 Saunders, Esq. Dr. C. G. Nees ab Esenbeck's ' Hvmenopterorum Tchneumonibus 

 affiuiuvn Monographiae,' vol. ii. ; by Mr. Baly. * Memoires de la Societe de Physique 

 et d' Histoire Naturelle de Geneve,' tome xiii., Ire partie: Geneve, 1852; by the 

 Society. Eight specimens of Haltica pubescens, taken in August, at Holme, near 

 Peterborough ; by the captor, the Rev. Hamlet Clark. Also, the following books, by 

 Miss Eliza Bromfield, in addition to her former donation : — 



LiNNiEi, Fauna Suecica, 8vo. 

 „ Museum Ulricas, 8vo. 



Raupen Kalender Naturgeschicte, &c, 8vo. 



Rossi, Fauna Etrusca, 2 vols. 4to. 



Swammeedamm, Biblia Naturae, 2 vols, folio. 



Vogel, Verhandlungen der Insecten, 8vo. 



J. C. Pickersgill, Esq., 36, Gordon Square, was elected a Member ; and C. W. 

 Quin, Esq., 25, Clarence Street, Islington, and Mr. R. Shield, Dublin, were elected 

 Subscribers to the Society. 



Mr. C. R. Bree sent for identification a larva of Anthrenus Museorum, found alive 

 in his cabinet. He complained of the difficulty experienced by persons in the country 

 in identifying the insects they found ; and suggested that for the benefit of a very nu- 

 merous class, who were not exactly students, but who nevertheless wished to be better 

 acquainted with the insects around them, it would be very desirable that monographs 

 of our native insects should be published in annual volumes, with a figure of each spe- 

 cies; — a work he thought it possible might be accomplished. 



Mr. Bond exhibited some larvae of Anticlea Berberata, feeding upon the leaves of 

 berberry, from Cambridgeshire. He observed that like these now exhibited, the colour 

 was usually brown, but sometimes it was luteous, in specimens of the same age. 



Mr. Weir exhibited specimens of Coleophora deauratella, taken among clover near 

 Tunbridge Wells ; and one of the rare Elachista trapeziella from the same locality. 



Mr. Edwin Shepherd exhibited a box of Lepidoptera taken by Mr. Bouchard near 



