8452 Entomological Society. 



February 2, 1863. — Frederick Smith, Esq., President, in the chair. 

 The President nominated as Vice-Presidents for the present year Messrs. Pascoe, 

 Waterhouse and Grut. 



Donations. 



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

 respective donors: — 'Bulletin de la Societe Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou,' 

 1861, Parts i. to iv. inclusive ; presented by the Society. ' Tijdschrift voor Entomologie,' 

 Ve deel 4e & 5e sluk ; by the Entomological Society of the Netherlands. 'The 

 Journal of Entomology,' No. 7 ; by the Proprietors. 'The Intellectual Observer,' 

 No. 13; by Messrs. Groombridge & Sons. 'The Canadian Naturalist,' Vol. viii. 

 No. 5 ; by the Natural History Society of Montreal. ' Sitzungsberichte der Konigl. 

 bayer. Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Munehen,' 1862, ii. Heft ii. ; by the Academy. 

 'The Zoologist* for February; by the Editor. 'The Journal of the Society of Arts' 

 for January; by the Society. 'The Athenaeum' for January; by the Editor. 

 A specimen of Synuchus nivalis, "found under stones" near Reigate; presented by 

 T. E. Hughes, Esq. 



New Members. 



Frederic Moore, Esq., and Edward Alfred Smith, Esq., were elected Members. 

 A certificate was read in favour of Edward Parfitt, Esq., as an Annual Subscriber. 



Exhibitions, Sf-c. 



The Secretary exhibited a box of "manna" from Tasmania, which had been 

 anonymously sent to the Society, accompanied by a bottle which contained numerous 

 specimens of a Hemipterous insect of the genus Eurymela, and which was labelled as 

 follows: — "The insect which causes the manna to be formed on the while gum trees, 

 by perforating the delicate young branches, for the purpose of feeding on the sap." 



Mr. Bond exhibited a remarkable instance of arrested development in the left fore 

 wing of a specimen of Colias Hyale ; also a female specimen of Lycaena Adonis, in 

 which some of the eye-like markings on the under surface were on the left side 

 {i.e. right of the under surface) wholly wanting. 



Mr. Haward exhibited a miscellaneous collection of Coleoptera, collected by him- 

 self three or four years ago in Central Europe, principally in Southern France and 

 Germany, and in Switzerland and North Italy. 



Mr. Stainton exhibited two bramble leaves, inside each of which was visible 

 the cast-off skin of a larva of Nepticula aurella, and read the following note by 

 Mr. C. Healy :— 



Observations on the Moulting of the Larva of Nepticula aurella. 

 " On the 18th of January, 1863, I collected several bramble leaves containing 

 young larvae ; in the afternoon of the same day I observed one larva resting in the 

 centre of its mine in an apparently sickly state. On the following morning the old 

 skin had split at the first segment, and the darkish blotch at the back of the head had 

 receded to the second segment. On the 20th the old skin had shrunk to the fifth 

 segment, and at this date the whole of the first four segments had quite a transparent 

 appearauce, being devoid of all markings whatever, and contrasting strangely with the 

 remainder of the larva's body ; the larva lay quite motionless in its mine. On the 21st 

 the mouth had regained its former brownish colour, and the larva now mov< d its head 

 about in a languid manner in search of food, of which it partook sparingly. On the 

 22nd the darkish blotch bad reappeared on the back of the larva's head ; the old skin 



