3862 Entomological Society. 



Proceedings of the Entomological Society. 



March 7, 1853. — Edward Newman, 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 ' Athenaeum ' for Febru- 

 ary; by the Editor. The 'Literary Gazette' for February; by the Editor. The 

 * Journal of the Society of Arts ; ' by the Society. ' Insecta Saundersiana. — Diptera, 

 Part IV.;' by W. W. Saunders, Esq. ' Entomologische Zeitung' for November, 

 1852, and January, 1853 ; by the Entomological Society of Stettin. ' Annales de la 

 Societe Entomologique de France,' 1851 ; by the Society. 'Proceedings of the Royal 

 Society,' Vol. vi., No. 94 ; by the Society. Boxes of English Lepidoptera from the 

 following gentlemen : — Mr. F. Bond, Major Sheppard, Mr. A. F. Sheppard, Mr. Ed- 

 win Shepherd, and Mr. T. Boyd. A box of English Micro-Lepidoptera ; by Mr. 

 Douglas. Two boxes of European Lepidoptera; by M. Becker, of Paris. One hun- 

 dred lists of British Lepidoptera ; by Mr. J. W. Dunning. 



These lists were presented for the special purpose of benefiting the Society's col- 

 lection of British Lepidoptera, by having the desiderata marked thereon, and then 

 circulated among those members who had duplicate specimens to give away. Messrs. 

 A. F. Sheppard and Edwin Shepherd had so marked several of the lists, and the above 

 donations of English Lepidoptera were the first result. 



J. N. Winter, Esq., Brighton, and M. H. F. de Saussure, Geneva, were balloted 

 for and elected Members of the Society. 



The President announced that the Society offered a prize of £5 5s. for the best 

 essay on the Natural History of the species of Coccus injurious to fruit-trees in this 

 country (with an especial reference to the "mussel-scale'' of the apple, of which a full 

 and particular account is to be given), and the best means of preventing their ravages. 



The essays, each distinguished by a motto, and with the author's name in a dis- 

 tinct sealed envelope, to be addressed " To the President and Council of the Entomo- 

 logical Society/' and delivered on or before the 31st of December next. 



Mr. Spence exhibited specimens of a Thrips, received through Dr. Lankester from 

 Dr. Theophilus Thompson, to whom they had been sent from Australia, where they 

 prevented rose-trees from blossoming by eating the petals of the flowers. 



Mr. S. Stevens exhibited a specimen of each of the rare Coleoptera, Agasma senii- 

 crudum and Calodera Kirbii, lately received from Australia. 



Mr. T. Spencer exhibited a specimen of Chcerocampa Celerio, captured last Octo- 

 ber in the Regent's Park, and a scorpion, found last summer in the middle of a field 

 at Edgeware. 



Mr. Douglas, on the part of Mr. A. R. Hogan, exhibited the specimen of Hippar- 

 chia Janira, with six whitish appendages to the haustellum, respecting which he had 

 sent an inquiry to the ' Zoologist ' (p. 3775), and which Mr. Douglas had answered in 

 the same journal (p. 3809), considering the presence of these bodies to be attributable 

 to the adhesion of parts of flowers. Subsequent examination of the butterfly, kindly 

 sent by Mr. Hogan, had confirmed this impression. 



The President said he was convinced that Mr. Douglas was correct in his opinion, 

 for not only did he find the appendages in question to be the pollen-masses of an Or- 

 chidaceous plant, but he identified the very species as Orchis bifolia. The pollen-gra- 

 nules were still distinctly observable at the distal extremity of the appendages, while 

 the basal end, always extremely viscid, had fixed itself firmly to the maxilla? of the 



