Entomological Society. 4233 



•Literary Gazette ' for January; by the Editor. The 'Journal of the Society of 

 Arts' for January; by the Society. A box of British Lepidoptera, by P. H. 

 Vaughan, Esq. 



Nomination of Vice-Presidents. 

 The President nominated as Vice-Presidents for the year W. W. Saunders, Esq., 

 F. Smith, Esq., and H. T. Stainton, Esq. 



P Prize Essay for 1854. 



It was announced that the Council, on behalf of the Society, renewed for this 

 year the offer of a prize of £5 5s. for the best Essay on the Natural History of the 

 Cocci injurious to British fruit-trees, especially of the "mussel-scale blight " of 

 the apple, considering that the short notice given last year may not have given time 

 for the preparation of such a paper. And the Council also now gave notice that they 

 would award a similar prize for the best Essay on the Natural History of the Coccus 

 which produces the lac-dye of commerce, which should be delivered to the Society on 

 or before the 31st of December, 1855 ; and it was stated, as an encouragement, that 

 Dr. Royle had kindly promised that the information at present possessed by the East 

 India Company, or any other that the resources of that Company could procure from 

 India on the subject, should be at the service of those who might be induced to take 

 it up. 



Election of Members. 

 The following gentlemen were balloted for and elected Members of the Society : — 

 George Browuell, Esq., Shaw Street, Liverpool ; John Maxwell Savage, Esq., 26, 

 Gloucester Place, Portman Square ; Francis P. Pascoe, Esq., F.L.S., Fern Lodge, 

 Kensington ; Jacob Birt, Esq., Sussex Gardens, Hyde Park : and J. R. S. Clifford, 

 Esq., Pimlico, was elected a Subscriber. 



Exhibitions. 



Mr. E. L. Layard exhibited several large cases of Lepidoptera collected by him 

 during a residence of several years in Ceylon ; nearly all in fine condition, and 

 including species of great beauty and rarity. 



The President exhibited a perfect male and female, as well as the larva-case and 

 a drawing of the larva of a Sacktrager, found by Mr. Bates in the interior of Brazil ; 

 it was evidently a species of Saccophora, and he proposed to call the species Batesii v 

 he was preparing a detailed account of this curious genus, to which he would again 

 call the attention of the Society as soon as some illustrative drawings had been 

 prepared. 



Mr. Douglas exhibited a Phigalia pilosaria, taken at 11£ p.m., on the 21st of 

 January, sitting on a gas-lamp, at Lee. This appearance, so very early in the season, 

 was the more remarkable from the continued low temperature existing to within 

 a few days previous. He remarked also, with reference to the hour of its capture, that 

 he had always seen moths on the street-lamps to be more numerous after 10 o'clock at 

 night. Since the late mild weather had set the grass growing, he had noticed young 

 hybernated larvae of Elachistse mining in the newly formed leaves. 



Mr. Stevens exhibited Argynnis Paphia, $ , a variety in which the black spots 

 on the upper surface of the wings, usually of a round form, were run together into oval 

 patches ; also Argynnis Euphrosyne, $ , a variety with a black band across the centre 



