Society of British Entomologists. 4235 



" 1. Elytrorum sutura postice elevato-carinata ; including Ch. cinereus, Sch'dnherr, 

 and two new species. 



"2. Elytrorum sutura plana — Ch. nanus, Schb., Ch.nitidilabris, Germ.> Ch. paga- 

 nus, Sch'd. They all differ somewhat in the structure of the rostrum and antennae 

 from P. laticollis, P. argentarius, &c, but they scarcely should constitute a distinct 

 genus." — 7. W. D. 



Society of British Entomologists. 



December 6, 1853. — Mr. H. Harding, President, in the chair. 



The President exhibited some specimens of Speranza conspicuaria, and observed 

 that this insect was comparatively common at Darenth and Birch Woods some years 

 back, but had now quite disappeared from those localities. 



The President next presented a box of insects for the Cabinet from a friend. 



The members present were then entertained by the exhibition of a number of en- 

 tomological objects under the achromatic microscope. 



January 3, 1854, Anniversary Meeting. — Mr. H. Harding, President, in the 

 chair. 



The President exhibited the pupa and food of Depressaria rotundella, fed on 

 Echium vulgare; likewise specimens of Depressaria Alstrcemeriana, fed on the same. 

 Mr. Stainton says the food was not before known. 



Mr. Dalman exhibited specimens of Ectinus aterrimus, taken near Deal. 



The Secretary then read his Report for the past year. 



The President then delivered an Address on the State and Prospects of the 

 Society, and on Entomology generally ; said he was very glad to hear from the 

 Report, that the Society was free from debt, and that the number of insects in the 

 Cabinet had increased principally by means of presents, and that although the Society 

 had not increased very rapidly in members it had added to its number; and it gave 

 him much pleasure to see it was in every respect in a thriving condition : he then pro- 

 ceeded to give a retrospect of the past year, entomologically considered ; remarking that 

 although 1853, taken as a whole, had been cold and wet, and although everything 

 was very backward, so much so, that many of the early insects were two months 

 behind the usual time, as was noticed in the monthly reports (published in the 

 * Zoologist'), and was more fully described by a writer in the same periodical, page 

 4129, who there remarks that Semiophora gothica, which ought to be out in March, he 

 took in July : nevertheless, the year had been a good one for entomologists, thus veri- 

 fying the adage, that a bad beginning sometimes makes a good ending. Although no 

 new localities had been worked that he was aware of, many rare insects had turned up 

 in Hampshire, and particularly in Scotland, and one or two new things in Lepidoptera. 

 On the southern coast the President had himself taken Anerastia Farrella and Exsretia 

 Allisella, an entirely new locality for both these Micro-Lepidoptera. Some rare 

 Coleoptera had been taken in the same locality, among which he would particularly 



