2556 Entomological Society. 



Proceedings of the Entomological Society. 



August 6. — J. F. Stephens, Esq., F.L.S., Vice-President, in the chair. 



The following donations were announced : A quantity of interesting insects of 

 India, collected and presented by Captain Hutton. A specimen of Sirex gigas, found 

 boring in wood ; presented by Mr. Lamb, Hurstbourne Park, Whitchurch, Hants. 

 Six specimens of Lixus angustatus, from Hastings, and Harpalus tardus ? from near 

 Northampton ; presented by the Kev. Hamlet Clark. A Memoir on the Circulation 

 in the Larvae of Insects, by M. Verloren, Docteur-es-Sciences, Utrecht ; presented 

 by the author. ' Transactions of the Tyneside Naturalists' Field-Club,' vol. i. part 3 ; 

 presented by the Club. ' Nya Svenska Homoptera beskrifna,' af Carl H. Boheman ; 

 presented by the author. ' Entomologische Zeitung,' February to June ; presented 

 by the Entomological Society of Stettin. ' The Zoologist,' January to June ; pre- 

 sented by Edward Newman, Esq. Nine portraits of living naturalists ; presented by 

 G. Ransome, Esq., Ipswich. ' Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society,' vol. x. 

 part 1 ; presented by that Society. The thanks of the Society were returned for these 

 presents to the respective donors. 



F. Barlow, Esq., of Cambridge, was elected a subscriber. 



Mr. Bond exhibited Chilo gigantellus, W. V. (punctigerellus, Steph.), Chilo mu- 

 cronellus, Nascia cilialis (which was not exhibited at the last meeting, as reported at 

 page 2531, but only the capture mentioned), Zeuzera Arundinis, male, Harpalyce 

 sagittata, and an unknown Eupithecia, all taken in the fens of Huntingdonshire and 

 Cambridgeshire. 



Mr. Shepherd exhibited some rare Lepidoptera from Yaxley, including Zeuzera 

 Arundinis, female, Recurvaria falciformis of Haworth, Tinea Monachella, and several 

 new or rare species of Micro-Lepidoptera ; also Lithosia pygmaeola, taken at Deal. 



Mr. Samuel Stevens exhibited several interesting Tortrices and Tinea?, taken near 

 London, or bred from larvae ; the latter mostly found on sallows at Wimbledon 

 Common. 



Mr. Smith exhibited a collection of Hymenoptera, taken near London, including 

 Allantus dispar, Melecta Atropos, all the four British species of Saropodae, and Mis- 

 cophus bicolor, male ; also five specimens of Osmia pilicornis — the new species 

 described by Mr. Smith — from Birch Wood. 



Mr. Westwood exhibited the larvae of a Proctotrupes, found parasitic in the larva 

 of a Harpalus. 



Mr. Douglas exhibited a collection of Lepidoptera he had taken near Weymouth, 

 in July, including Pamphila Actaeon from the Burning Cliff, Margaritia longipedalis, 

 Gelechia obsoletella, F-v-R., and Homaeosoma nimbella ? near Sandsfoot Castle ; also 

 Margaritia asinalis, M. flavalis, M. ochrealis, Emmelesia rusticata, Ptychopoda dege- 

 neraria (two), Pempelia carnella, Gelechia cinerella, and other rarities from the Isle 

 of Portland. 



Mr. Westwood exhibited some interesting insects received from M. Reichc, inclu- 

 ding several rarities from New Holland, and three new Paussidae from Africa. 



Mr. S. Saunders exhibited insects from Greece and Albania, including a new ge- 

 nus of Strepsiptera parasitic upon a species of Hylanis, being the first instance known 

 of this genus of bees being so affected. Mr. Saunders stated that he kept a specimen 

 of Parmena fasciata alive lor two months without food. 



