Entomological Society. 6771 



Proceedings of Societies. 



Entomological Society. 



September 5, 1859. — Dr. Gray, President, in the ch;iir. 



Donations. 

 The following donations were announced, and thanks ordered to be presented to 

 the donors : — ' Proceedings of the Royal Society,' Vol. x. No. 36 ; presented by the 

 Society. 'Farm Insects,' Parts 3 and 4 ; by the Author, John Curtis, Esq., F.L.S. 

 'The Zoologist' for September; by the Editor. 'Smithsonian Contributions to 

 Knowledge,' Vol. x. ' Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian 

 Institution for the year 1857 ; 'Reply to the Statement of the Trustees of the Dud- 

 ley Observatory, 1 by Benj. Aptborp Gould, jun. ; 'Defence of Dr. Gould, by the 

 Scientific Council of the Dudley Observatory ;' by the Smithsonian Institution. 'The 

 Athenaeum' for July ; by the Editor. 'The Journal of the Society of Arts' for Au- 

 gust; by the Society. ' The Literary Gazette for August; by the Editor. 



Election of a Subscriber. 

 R. W. Fereday, Esq., of 2, Leighton Villas, Talbot Road, Kentish Town, was bal- 

 loted for and elected a Subscriber to the Society. 



Exhibitions. 



The President exhibited, on behalf of their captor, Dr. Power, the following 

 British Coleoptera, with localities and dates of capture : — 



Anchomenus versutus, Gyll. Wimbledon, July 30, 1858. 



Polystichus fasciolatus. Sheerness, June and August, 1859. 



Trechus longicornis. Banks of Ribble, July, 1859. 



Acrognathus mandibulars, Gyll. Darenth, June 19, 1859. 



Odacantha melanura. Merton, August, 1859. 



Deleaster dichrous. Colney Hatch. June 25, 1859. 



Anchomenus pelidnus (var. Thoreyi ?). Merton, July, 1859. 



Ancylophorus glabricollis, Eric. Merton, July 26, 1859. 



Helophorus intermedins. Merton, July, 1859. 

 The two last-mentioned species had not previously been recorded as natives of Britain. 



Mr. Smith remarked, with reference to Polystichus fasciolatus, that Mr. Hewitson 

 took this species in some plenty, on the shore to the west of South wold, near Lowe- 

 stoft ; they were found under stones above the shingle on the sloping shore, in front 

 of the salt marsh beyond which is the mud wall leading to the ferry over to Walben- 

 wick. The salt marsh abounds in species of Coleoptera. The date of capture was 

 the month of April. 



Mr. Stevens exhibited a portion of a collection of Coleoptera and Lepidoptera 

 made by Mr. Trimen in South Africa, about 300 miles east of the Cape of Good 

 Hope; and a fine series sent from Sierra Leone by Mr. Foxcroft. 



Mr. Stevens also exhibited a living specimen of Locusta migratoria, which he had 

 captured near Brighton, in which neighbourhood, he stated, the species was un- 

 usually common this autumn. 



Dr. Knaggs observed that he had seen a specimen lately taken at Camden 

 Town. 



