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from his own collection, by Dr. Pfeiffer. These shells were referred to the genera 

 Helix, Bulimus, Cyclostoma, Cataulus, Pupina, and Helicina. Mr. Cuming also 

 communicated the descriptions of three new species of Limnaeacea by Dr. William 

 D unker.— D. W. M. 



Proceedings of the Entomological Society. 





April 4, 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 April ; by the Editor. The ' Athenaeum ' for March ; 

 by the Editor. The 'Literary Gazette ' for March ; by the Editor. The ' Journal 

 of the Society of Arts;' by the Society. ' On two new Subgenera of Calanidae,' by 

 John Lubbock, Esq., F.Z.S., &c. : by the Author. Hewitson's ' Exotic Butterflies,' 

 part 6 ; by W. Wilson Saunders, Esq. ' Descriptions de trois Coleopteres: ' ' De- 

 scriptions des Coleopteres nouveaux : ' ' Rappel des Coleopteres decrits par Palisot et 

 Beauvais: ' all by M. A. Chevrolat, and presented by the Author. Specimens of Co- 

 leopterous larvae with a Sphaeria attached ; by T. J. Stevens, Esq., Bogota. 



T. H. Langcake, Esq., Beeston, near Leeds, and F. Bates, Esq., Leicester, were 

 elected Subscribers to the Society. 



Mr. T. Desvignes exhibited a fine Choeroeampa Celerio, taken by Thomas Thomp- 

 son, Esq., at Welton, near Brough, Yorkshire; also a new British bee, — Anthidium 

 maculatum, taken in Scotland by E. C. Buxton, Esq. 



Mr. F. Smith remarked that this bee was common in the South of Europe ; and 

 it was curious and interesting, if no mistake had occurred, to find it first captured in 

 Britain so far North as Scotland. 



Mr. Bond exhibited a Steropus madidus, with a Filaria about 6 inches long pro- 

 truding from the abdomen ; also a Filaria, 15 inches in length, extracted from another 

 specimen of the same species of beetle. 



Mr. Douglas exhibited some young larvae of a Solenobia, produced from eggs laid 

 by females without male intercourse. Last July, at Charlton, he found larvae moving 

 about on the stem of a poplar tree ; he put some into a box with a piece of the bark, 

 and forgot them until recently, when he found they had produced apterous females 

 only, and from them had been developed the larvae now exhibited, which had died in 

 the box where they were born. 



Mr. F. Smith exhibited some Bruchi reared from seeds of Sophora myrtilli folia 

 from the Cape of Good Hope. Almost every seed had contained a larva of the Bru- 

 chus, from the greater number of them, however, only a parasitic Chalcis had emerged. 



Mr. S. Stevens exhibited some fine insects, chiefly Lepidoptera, just received from 

 Mr. Bates, on the Amazon River. 



The following extract of a letter from Mr. T. J. Stevens, Corresponding Member, 

 at Bogota, was read. 



" Having seen in the hands of my friend, Mr. Mack, our Consul, a dead larva with 

 a fungus growing from the body, I was much struck with the curious appearance, and 

 with some trouble procured specimens from Mr. Haldane, of Palmar, on whose estate. 



