4322 Entomological Society. 



March ; by the Editor. The * Literary Gazette ' for March ; by the Editor. The 

 1 Journal of the Society of Arts ' for March ; by the Society. ' Proceedings of the Royal 

 Society,' Vol. vi., No. 100 ; by the Society. ' Revue et Magasin de Zoologie,' 1853, 

 Nos. 11 & 12, 1854, Nos. 1 & 2 ; by the Editor, M. Gueriu-Meneville. ' Bulletin de la 

 Societe Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou,' 1852, Nos. 2, 3, 4, 1853, Nos. 1,2: by 

 the Society. ' Hewitson's Exotic Butterflies,' Part 10 ; by W. W. Saunders, Esq. 

 'The Entomologist's Companion,' Second Edition, by H. T. Staintou: by the 

 Author. A box of Lepidoptera from Bogota ; by T. J. Stevens, Esq., Corr. M.E.S. 

 Various Insects of Ceylon ; by G. R. H. Thwaites, Esq., M.E.S. 



Election of Members. 



T. Tapping, Esq., 43, Gloucester Place, Kentish Town, and the Rev. D. F. Jar- 

 man, Manor House, Hadley, Herts, were elected Members of the Society. 



Exhibitions. 



Mr. Douglas exhibited Depressaria Capreolella, taken flying in the sunshine, on 

 Sanderstead Downs, on the 12th of March ; also a larva of Elachista Megerlella min- 

 ing in the grass, Bromus asper. 



The Rev. Joseph Greene sent for exhibition a specimen of Stauropus Fagi, $ , bred 

 from a larva taken at Halton, Bucks, and a specimen of the very rare Gluphisia cre- 

 nata, reared from a larva found on a poplar near Halton, on the 18th of August. 

 " The larva was about an inch in length, depressed, tapering somewhat at each end; 

 the colour grass-green ; on the first segment a square brick-red spot, four more on 

 the intermediate segments, and one also on the last. It formed a cocoon on the same 

 day on which I found it. In reference to the early appearance of these insects, 

 I should mention that they were kept in a green-house." 



Mr. Baly exhibited a quantity of Hymenoptera, captured by Signor Botteri, in 

 Dalmatia, comprising several species of Megachile, Nomada, Eucera, Anthophora, 

 Anthidium, Ceratina, &c. 



Mr. Stevens exhibited some insects recently captured by Mr. Bates, at Santarem, 

 including twelve new Longicom beetles ; and among the Lepidoptera several 

 Erycinidae, remarkable for the difference of colouring in the sexes, which had hitherto 

 not only been taken to be distinct species, but had even been placed in different 

 genera. Mr. Bates had informed him that he had discovered a character in the neu- 

 ration of the wings of this family, which he intended to communicate to the Society 

 at a future period. Mr. Stevens also exhibited two new insects, sent overland by Mr. 

 Fortune, from China, — a Carabus, and the female of Dicranocephala Wallichii, being 

 the second known specimen in Europe. He also exhibited some insects just received 

 from Mr. Thwaites, in Ceylon, an Adolias and one of the Arctiidae, with their very sin- 

 gular larvae, the latter with foliaceous appendages. 



Ants destructive to Cocci. 



Mr. Spence communicated the following extract of a letter from G. H. K. 

 Thwaites, Esq., F.L.S., Corr. M.E.S., dated Peradenia, Ceylon, February 9, 1854. 



" A gentleman in this island has at length discovered a remedy for the bug which 

 attacks the coffee-plant, but it seems rather uncertain at preseut whether the remedy 

 be not really worse than the disease. Armies of red ants have been called in, and it 

 appears that they make sad havoc amongst the young Cocci, but it is very certain that 



