Entomological Society. 4965 



Election of Members. 



Octavius Pickard-Cambridge, Esq., Bloxworth House, near Bland ford, Dorset, 

 was elected a Member of, and E. B. Were, Esq., 35, Osborne Terrace, Clapham Road, 

 and Horace Francis, Esq., 38, Upper Bedford Place, Russell Square, were elected 

 Subscribers to, the Society. 



Exhibitions. 



Mr. Edwin Shepherd exhibited a beautiful pair of Trochilium scoliseforrais, 

 Borkhausen, taken with other specimens by Mr. Ashworth, at Bryn Hyfryd, near 

 Llangollen, in North Wales. This insect has just been described for the first time as 

 British in the December number of the ' Zoologist,' p. 4928, by Mr. Newman. 



Mr. Stevens exhibited a few drawings of the larvae and pupae of some of the 

 Lepidoptera of Port Natal, made there by Mr. R. W. Plant ; also perfect insects of 

 some of the species, whose early states were figured. 



The President exhibited some drawings of insects made by himself, and made the 

 following communications respecting them : — 



" 1st. A very pretty variety of Vanessa Urticae, given to me by F. Trenchard, Esq. 

 The specimen was taken by himself * near the entrance-gate in Bishop's Wood, 

 Hampstead, July 21st, 1838.' 



"2nd. A drawing of a caterpillar which I made when at school, and first noticed 

 in the second edition of my ' British Entomology.' It seems to be the larva of Sphinx 

 Celerio, yet it does not accord with any drawing or engraving I have seen: it is of an 

 obscure flesh-colour, with a large round black spot on each side of the first abdominal 

 segment, with four minute white dots on each, and the outer edges forming two straw- 

 coloured lunules; behind each, on the second segment, is a smaller oval yellowish- 

 white spot. The following memorandum was made at the time : — ' Two of these 

 caterpillars, from one of which this drawing was taken, were found in the arms of an 

 old garden-chair, in a garden near Bishop's Bridge, Norwich: they began to spin up 

 amongst some leaves in a pot on the 8th of October, 1810: they fed on the Persian 

 willow (Epilobium angustifolium). In the other specimen there were five minute dots 

 on one side and but three on the other: the white spot in my drawing is a little too 

 large, and the tail of the other caterpillar was longer.' They were in the possession of a 

 schoolfellow, Howard Sims, and changed to chrysalides amongst some leaves, from 

 which the moths never emerged, owing to the frequent disturbance of them. 



" 3rd. A drawing of Hygrotus bisnlcatus, which I described in the ' Annals of 

 Natural History,' and which is quite distinct from any of the European species that 

 have fallen under my notice. 



"4th. A drawing of the Apion named after me, in 1817, by the Rev. W. Kirby ► 

 I am very desirous of laying this sketch before the Society, in order to correct a mis- 

 statement which I should be sorry to see repeated. Being at that time on a visit at 

 Barham, I took a single specimen of an Apion, which Mr. Kirby decided to be un- 

 known to him, and of which he made a detailed Latin description for publication, and 

 I made the drawing : being in my youth at the time, Mr. Kirby paid me the compli- 

 ment to name an Apion after me; I could not but feel gratified, and although I 

 believe Mr. Kirby's description was never printed, Mr. Janson is quite mistaken in 

 supposing that I had named the Apion after myself, or that it was a discovery since 

 1839, as assumed in the 'Entomologist's Annual:' the latter misstatement is cor- 

 rected by the above date, and T should be sorry to be considered capable of such a 



