Entomological Society. 2435 



Proceedings of the Entomological Society. 



April 2. — G. R. Waterhouse, Esq., President, in the chair. 



The following presents were announced: ' Entomologisehe Zeitung,' by the Ento- 

 mological Society of Stettin. The ' Athenaeum,' by the Editor. ' Transactions of 

 the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool, four volumes, by that Society. 

 A most interesting collection of insects from Adelaide, South Australia, by — Wilson, 

 Esq., Corresponding Member of this Society. A number of British Lepidoptera, by 

 H. T. Stainton, Esq. The thanks of the Society for these presents were voted to the 

 respective donors. 



The following gentlemen were balloted for and elected, viz., Edward Newman 

 and S. J. Wilkinson, Esqrs., as members ; James L. Michael, J. P. G. Smith, John 

 F. Burton, and Nicholas Cooke, Esqrs., and Mrs. Vines, as subscribers. 



Mr. Westwood announced that the remainder of the drawings stolen from the 

 rooms of the Society had been found, and that he believed they would be recovered 

 by the Society, though in a mutilated state, having been cut up to decorate an album. 



Mr. Doubleday laid on the table a prospectus of a new Catalogue of the Curculi- 

 onidae, including all the species enumerated by Schonherr and those published since 

 his work, which it was proposed to publish by subscription by M. Jekel of Paris. 



Mr. Westwood read a paper by himself, on two new genera of exotic Coleoptera, 

 illustrated by drawings of the species, viz., Erichsonia dentifrons and Cossyphodes 

 Wollastonii. This paper was prefaced by observations on modern nomenclature, re- 

 ferring especially to some examples of insects named after individuals in such a 

 manner that malice as much as esteem would appear to have been the motive of the 

 authors in bestowing such names. He also described some new Hemipterous insects 

 from the East Indies, and exhibited drawings thereof. 



Mr. Stainton read a paper quoting an inquiry of Herr Zeller in the 'Entomolo- 

 gisehe Zeitung,' as to the Papilio Cinxia of Linneus, and stating that he had exa- 

 mined the specimen in the collection of the Linnean Society, and found it with the 

 name " Cinxia," in the hand-writing of Linneus, attached. He added that it is the 

 species known to us as Melitaea Cinxia, and that it is the Delia, W. V., and Atha- 

 lia, Esper. 



Mr. Douglas brought for distribution some specimens of iEgialia globosa and 

 Phylan gibbus, found by him at New Brighton, in Cheshire. He exhibited a speci- 

 men of Necrophoms humator, one of three found last autumn by Mr. Gregson, of 

 Liverpool, in a bee-hive, out of which the comb, honey and bees had disappeared. 

 It was suggested that the comb and honey had been destroyed by some other agents, 

 and that the Necrophori had entered to feed on the dead bees. 



Mr. Douglas stated that Mr. H. Doubleday had informed him that last year he 

 had bred the Phoxopteris upupana of Hiibner, a very rare species of Tortricidae, and 

 new to this country ; and that the Tortrix, taken last season at Leith Hill, Surrey, by 

 Mr. Benjamin Standish, was the true Penthina sauciana of Hiibner, also a rarity. 



Mr. J. F. Stephens exhibited a female Pygaera Bucephala, found last week at 

 Epping, and communicated to him by Mr. H. Doubleday as a remarkable instance 

 of the early appearance of this species, its usual time of appearance being in June. 



Referring to the insects on the table from — Wilson, Esq., of Adelaide, Mr. 

 Westwood remarked that there was a specimen of Cerapterus Macleayii, a species 

 still rare, though known to and figured by Donovan many years since. 



