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Proceedings of Societies. 

 Entomological Society. 

 April 4, 1859. — Dr. Gray, President, in the chair. 



Donations. 

 The following donations were announced, and thanks ordered to he presented to the 

 donors: — * Memoires de la Societe de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Geneve,' 

 Tome xiv. 2e Partie ; presented by the Society. ' Memoires couronnes et Memoires 

 des Savants etrangers,' publies par l'Academie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des 

 Beaux-arts de Belgique, Tome xxvii. ; by the Academy. ' On the Digestive and Nervous 

 Systems of Coccus Hesperidum,' by John Lubbock, Esq., F.R.S., F.L.S., F.G.S. ; by 

 the Author. * The Zoologist ' for April ; by the Editor. 4 Premiere Centurie de 

 Longicornes du vieux Calabar,' par Auguste Chevrolat, &c. ; by the Author. ' A 

 Manual of British Butterflies and Moths,' Nos. 27 and 28 ; * The Entomologist's 

 Weekly Intelligencer,' Nos. 128 — 131 ; by H.T. Stainton, Esq. ' The Athenaeum ' for 

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

 Journal of the Society of Arts ' for March ; by the Society. 



Election of Members. 



W. S. Coleman, Esq., 7, Ampton Place, Gray's Inn Road ; and W. Jeekes, Esq., 

 22, Camden Road Villas, Camden Town, were balloted for and elected members of 

 the Society. 



Exhibitions. 



Mr. Stevens exhibited some beautiful Coleoptera, taken by Mr. Wallace, at Dory, 

 New Guinea, amongst which were Eupholus Cuvieri, E. Schonherri, Promechus 

 splendidus and Oxycephala speciosa. He also exhibited, from the same locality, a 

 most extraordinary nondescript Dipterous insect, having long horn-like appendages 

 to the eyes. 



Mr. Smith mentioned that amongst the Hymenoptera recently sent by Mr.Wallace 

 from Celebes, was a species of Dolichurus, which was interesting from the fact that the 

 only other known species of this remarkable genus, D. corniculus, is European. 



Mr. Janson exhibited five species of Coleoptera hitherto unrecorded as British, 

 with notes of their localities, &c, as follows : — 



1. Oligota atomaria, Eric, Kraatz. Colney Hatch, December 27, 1855. Dis- 

 tinguished from O. pusillima by its broader form and its pitchy black legs and 

 antenna?. 



2. Stenus proditor, Eric, Kraatz. Near Finchley, December 5, 1858. 



3. Platystethus nitens. Sahib., Kraatz. Highgate. 



4. Abracus granulum, Eric, de Morseul. Walthamstow, Essex, May 18, 1851. 



5. Lcemopkleus duplicatus, Waltl., Eric. Beneath bark of a dead oak near High- 

 gate, March 27, 1859. Readily recognised from its congeners by the two impressed 

 longitudinal lines on each side of the thorax, and the truncate elytra of the male. 



Mr. Janson also exhibited the following Coleoptera: — 



Carabus grauulatus ) Linn. Variety, having one elytron bright green, the other 



