Entomological Society. 2503 



A bison calf was born in the gardens in Regent's Park, on Wednesday, May 30th. 



A large collection was announced as likely to arrive from Egypt at the end of the 

 month. 



A liberal present from the governor of Singapore was daily expected by the 

 Strathedon. 



The new reptile-house was opened on Wednesday last, and twenty-one different 

 species of lizards and serpents were exhibited : it was announced that the correspond- 

 ing members of the Society in Africa, South America and the West Indies, would 

 make many additions to this part of the collection during the summer. 



Proceedings of the Entomological Society. 



June 4. — G. R. Watekhouse, Esq., President, in the chair. 



Dr. Macdonald was present as a visitor. 



The following presents were announced: ' Transactions of the Zoological Society,' 

 vol. iii. part 6, and Proceedings of that Society to December, 1848, by the Zoological 

 Society. 



The following gentlemen were balloted for and elected: J. W. Dunning, Esq., 

 as member; W. Michael, Esq., as subscriber; and Francis Swanzy, Esq., of Dix 

 Cove, as corresponding member. 



The Secretary read a letter from Mr. Westwood to the President, stating that af- 

 ter an attendance of five days at the Police Court, and four days at the Old Bailey, 

 he had succeeded in recovering the drawings and coloured patterns of plates stolen 

 from the Society's rooms in 1848, and which he now restored to the Society: the 

 thief, he added, had been transported for fourteen years. An unanimous vote of thanks 

 was passed to Mr. Westwood for the interest he had taken on behalf of the Society in 

 this matter. 



Mr. Westwood brought for distribution specimens of Ilythia sociella, which he 

 had reared from the pupse. He exhibited a mass of the cocoons which had been 

 blown out of a tree, and remarked that these coverings were double, each one having 

 a lining, and that both cases were unclosed at one end. 



Mr. Westwood also exhibited specimens of Ptinus Hololeucus received from Mr. 

 Hart, of Knightsbridge, who found them in open jars attached to his galvanic bat- 

 tery, in which a strong solution of silica was operated on by a galvanic current for a 

 lengthened period ; and Mr. Hart was firmly persuaded that these beetles were deve- 

 loped by galvanic agency. On this point Mr. Westwood observed that the notorious 

 Acarus Crossei had been produced without galvanic power ; and it appeared to be 

 the opinion of the meeting that there was no ground whatever for Mr. Hart's belief. 



Mr. Weir exhibited a collection of Micro-Lepidoptera, taken within the last month 

 near Tunbridge Wells, including some rare species ; also a specimen of Lobophora 

 polycommata, taken near Lewes, on the 4th of May. 



Mr. Moore exhibited some eggs attached to feathers found in the aviaries at 

 Knowsley. They appeared to belong to some unknown parasite on birds. 



Mr. S. Stevens exhibited a fine bred specimen of Hypena crassalis : the larva fed 

 on Vaccimum. 



