4042 Entomological Society. 



The new species of Crustacea described by Mr. Thompson are the 

 following: — Hippolyte Whitei, H. Yarrellii, H. Gray an a, and H. 

 Mitchelli ; all from Weymouth Bay. 



Mr. Gosse describes the following new and rare marine animals: — 

 Sipivnculus punctatissimus, from Weymouth ; Spadix purpurea, Lul- 

 worth and Weymouth ; Actinia miniata ; Act. clavata, Thompson, var. 

 rosea ; and Iluanthos Mitchellii. 



Proceedings of the Entomological Society. 



August 1, 1853.— Samuel Stevens, Esq., F.L.S., in the chair. 



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

 donors : — The ' Zoologist ' for August ; hy the Editor. The * Athenaeum ' for July ; 

 by the Editor. The ' Literary Gazette ' for July ; by the Editor. The * Journal of the 

 Society of Arts' for July ; by the Editor. ' Bulletin de la Societe Imperiale des Na- 

 turalistes de Moscou,' Nos. 3 and 4, 1851, No. 1, 1852: 'Die Coleopterologischen 

 Verhaeltnisse und Kafer Russlands,' von Victor v. Motschulsky : both by the Soc. Imp. 

 Nat. Moscou. ' Bericht iiber die wissenchaftlichen Leistungen im Gebiete der Ento- 

 mologie wahrend des Jahres 1851,' von Dr. H. Schaum; Berlin, 1853 : by the Author. 

 ' Catalogue of the Coleoptera of Scotland,' by Andrew Murray ; Edinburgh, 1853 : by 

 the Author. ' Abhandlungen der Mathemat.-Physikal. Classe der Koeniglich Bayer- 

 ischen Akademie der Wissenchaften,' 17 Band, lstabth., Munchen, 1853: Bulletin 

 ditto, No. 25 : ' Ueber den Chemismus der Vegetation,' von Dr. A. Vogel jun., Mun- 

 chen, 1853 : all by the Akademie. ' Transactions of the Linnean Society,' Vol. xxi. 

 part 2, 1853 : ' Proceedings of the Linnean Society,' Nos. 48 — 51 : ' List of the Lin- 

 nean Society;' all by the Society. 'Proceedings of the Royal Society,' Vol. vi. No. 

 97 ; by the Society. Two specimens of Boletophagus crenatus ; by Mr. Foxcroft. 



Viscount Goderich, M.P. ; Captain Cox, Queen's Body Guard; and Henry Evans, 

 Esq., Darley Abbey, near Derby, were balloted for and elected Members of the Society. 



Mr. Stevens exhibited a female of the rare Pachetra leucophaea ? taken flying at 

 Mickleham, in July ; and an almost black variety of Hadena dentina, from the same 

 place. 



Mr. Wilkinson exhibited living larva; of Incurvaria masculella in their cases, feed- 

 ing upon leaves of beech and hornbeam externally, having in a young state fed within 

 the cuticles, of which the cases were formed. 



Mr. Smith exhibited a very large Boletus, found by Mr. Foxcroft on an old birch- 

 tree in the Black Forest, Rannoch, from which he had extracted Boletophagus crena- 

 tus. He also exhibited a large quantity of Mr. Foxcrofi's captures of Coleoptera, 

 Lepidoptera, and Hymenoptera in Perthshire, including many rare species, and among 

 the Coleoptera, Noctiluca splendidula ? a new British species. 



Mr. Douglas exhibited Ino Globulariae, taken at Cheltenham in July, being anew 

 locality for this species ; also Heliothis marginata, and twelve other species of Noc- 

 tuidae captured at the same time and place, flying at dusk about the flowers of Silene 

 inflata. 



