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inch in height, surrounded their noble parent, whose erect example they appeared to 

 be desirous of emulating in a most amusing manner. So many friends have admired 

 my pet that I crave this as an apology for this description, though the animal must 

 be seen to be appreciated. — W. R. Hughes ; The General Hospital, Birmingham, 

 May 2^ 1863. 



Proceedings of Societies. 



Entomological Society. 



June I, 1863. — Frederick Smith, Esq., President in the chair. 



Donations. 

 The following donations were announced, and thanks voted to the respective donors : 

 — ' The Transactions of the Entomological Society o^New South Wales,' Vol. i. Part 1 ; 

 presented by the Society. ' Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society,' Vol. vii. 

 No. 26; by the Society. 'The Intellectual Observer,' No. xvii.; by the publishers. 

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

 May ; by the Society. ' The Reader ' for May ; by the Editor. ' Stettiner Entomo- 

 logische Zeitung,' Vol. 24, Nos. 4—6; by the Entomological Society of Stettin. 



Election of Member. 



A certificate in favour of Alfred R. Wallace, Esq., as a Member of the Society was 

 read. On the proposition of Mr. Dunning, seconded by Mr. Slainton, it was unani- 

 mously resolved that, as a slight recognition of the vast services rendered to Science 

 by this distinguished entomologist, zoologist and traveller (and following the prece- 

 dents afforded by the election of Mrs. F. W. Hope, and that of Mr. Tweedy in 1850), 

 the customary two-months' suspension of the certificate in the meeting-room, and the 

 formal vote by ballot, be dispensed with ; and Mr. Wallace was accordingly elected 

 by acclamation. 



Exhibitions, fyc. 



Mr. Stainton exhibited some young Lepidopterous larvae mining the leaves of the 

 hazel. The same larva had been found in the leaves of Ribes sanguineum, and in the 

 North of England in birch leaves. It retained the mining habit only for a short time, 

 and subsequently became an external feeder. The larva was that of an Incurvaria, 

 and would probably prove to be T. pectinea. 



Mr. Stainton exhibited some dead larvae of Hyponomeuta padella on apple leaves. 

 They had been transferred, when quite young, from their natural food, the hawthorn, 

 to an apple tree, which was the usual food of a closely-allied form : the transferred 

 larvae had at first commenced eating the apple leaves, but soon ceased to do so, and 

 died, apparently for no other reason than that the food did not agree with them. This 

 fact was adduced not only as an instance of inability on the part of the larvae to adapt 

 themselves to circumstances, but also as having a material bearing upon the question 

 of the specific distinctness of the hawthorn-feeding and apple-feeding forms of Hypo- 

 nomeuta. 



