2578 Zoological and Entomological Societies. 



Proceedings of the Zoological Society. 



August 2. — Dr. Gamble in the Chair. 



Lambert B. Foster, Esq., David I vail, Esq., John Hunt, Esq., James Purday, 

 Esq., James Tennant, Esq., Samuel C. Baker, Esq., H. Drummond Wolff, Esq., and 

 Mrs. Rohrs, were elected Fellows of the Society. 



The Report of the Council announced that the number of visitors to the Gardens 

 during the month of July was 37,789 ; and that the total increase of the number of 

 visitors since the 1st of January, as compared with the corresponding period of 1848, 

 amounted to 18,397. The Report contained an interesting list of donations to the 

 menagerie received since the last meeting, including a specimen of Boa diviniloqua, 

 from St. Lucia, presented by Lieut. Tyler, R.E., and a large Iguana {Cyclura Colei), 

 from Jamaica, presented by Dr. Andrew Smith. It also announced the completion 

 of a wing to the giraffe-house, which had been rendered indispensable by the increased 

 numbers of large Mammalia recently added to the collection. — D. W. M. 



Proceedings of the Entomological Society. 



September 3. — G. R. Watebhouse, Esq., President, in the chair. 



The following donations were announced : ' Entomologische Zeitung,' for July ; 

 by the Entomological Society of Stettin. ' The Zoologist,' July to September; by 

 Edward Newman, Esq. ' Reports of the Smithsonian Institution,' to January, 1849, 

 and vol. i. of the ' Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge ; ' by the Smithsonian 

 Institution. 'Reports of the Council and Auditors of the Zoological Society;' by 

 that Society. Six specimens of Peronea permutana; by C. S. Gregson, Esq., by 

 whom they were captured at New Brighton, Cheshire. The thanks of the Society 

 were given to the respective donors. 



Henry Ingall, Esq., was elected a subscriber. 



Mr. S. Stevens exhibited some rare insects taken at Dover and Deal, including 

 Gelechia Neuropterella, Lixus bicolor (alive) from the sand-hills, and Choragus Shep- 

 pardi from dead wood in hedges : also Sitaris humeralis, found on the wall of his 

 own garden at Hammersmith. 



Mr. F. Smith exhibited some cells apparently formed of clay, made by Geotrupes 

 stercorarius. 



Mr. Westwood exhibited specimens of a species of Aphis, which he had described 

 in the ' Gardener's Chronicle' under the name of Pemphigus Lactucae. It had re- 

 cently destroyed whole beds of lettuces, in various parts of England, by feeding on 

 the roots of the plants. He also exhibited a living Sirex Juvencus, and noticed its 

 bold attitude when disturbed, likewise the adaptation of its limbs for progressive mo- 

 tion in a cylindrical burrow : he also exhibited a piece of wood with several of the 

 burrows formed by this species, a specimen of which just developed was seen in one 

 of them ; in another burrow was a living larva : specimens of Sirex gigas had been 

 produced from the same piece of wood, which was forwarded by Mr. Lamb from 

 Hampshire. He also exhibited specimens <>f Scleroderma, male, with drawings and 

 dissections, from which and the observations of S. Saunders, Esq., by whom they 



