4272 Entomological Society. 



Proceedings of Societies. 

 Entomological Society. 

 March 6, 1854.— E. Newman, Esq., President, in the chair. 



Donations. 

 The following donations were announced, and thanks ordered to be given to the 

 donors : — The ' Zoologist ' for March ; by the Editor. The ' Athenaeum ' for Febru- 

 ary ; by the Editor. The * Literary Gazette ' for February ; by the Editor. The 

 1 Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England,' Vol. xiv. part 2 ; by the So- 

 ciety. ' Revue et Magasin de Zoologie,' 1853, No. 9 ; by the Editor, M. Gueriu 

 Meneville. ' Proceedings of the Royal Society,' Vol. vi., No. 101 ; by the Society. 

 ' Synopsis des Calopterygienes,' par M. Edm. de Selys-Longchamps : Bruxelles, 1853 ; 

 by the Author. ' Journal of the Society of Arts ' for February ; by the Society. 



Election of Members. 

 Charles Melley, Esq., Liverpool, was elected a Member ; and S. C. Tress Beale, 

 Esq., Ivy Court, Tenterden, was elected a Subscriber. 



The Society^ Excursions. 

 It was announced that the Society would make two excursions this year, one on 

 the 10th of June, to Pembury, near Tunbridge, the other on the 8th of July, to Mic- 

 kleham. Tickets for dinner, on either occasion, may be obtained by Members, for 

 themselves or friends, of the Officers of the Society, at 2s. 6d. each, up to the 2nd of 

 May ; and after that day, at 3s. 6d. each. 



Exhibitions. 



Mr. Stevens exhibited specimens of the new British Zygaena Minos, taken last 

 June, near Galway, by Mr. Henry Milner. He also exhibited some Coleoptera and 

 Lepidoptera, just received from Mr. Fortune, in the North of China, several being re- 

 markable from their great similarity to British species ; and he also exhibited some 

 Lepidoptera, including some Micros collected by Herr Guenzius at Port Natal. 



Mr. Stevens exhibited the fine specimen of Morpho Cyperis, presented to the So- 

 ciety by Mr. T. J. Stevens, which had become saturated with grease, and was now 

 quite restored by means of camphine and magnesia. 



Mr. Moore exhibited a mud nest of a mason bee or wasp, containing several cells, 

 in one of which he found a Chrysis, in another a wasp, and in a third part of a spider, 

 all of which had probably entered after the builder of the nest had left it. The nest 

 was found on a wall at Dacca, in Tndia. 



Mr. Curtis exhibited the following larvae, which he intends to describe for a future 

 meeting : — Larva of a Harpalus ? of Stenolophus vaporariorum ? Cistela (Prionychus) 

 ater, Prostomis mandibularis, Helophorus ? (alive at the end of two years), Pyralis 

 (taken feeding on insects in a cabinet). 



Mr. Foxcroft exhibited living specimens of Boletophagus crenatus, and the larvae, 

 also larvae of a species of Tinea, probably pellionella, which had fed upon, and formed 

 their cases of, hartshorn shavings. 



