112 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



Entomological Society of London. 



February 8, 1S93. — Henry John Elwes, Esq., F.L.S., F.Z.S., 

 President, in the chair. 



The President announced that he had nominated Mr. F. DuCane 

 Godman, F.R.S., Mr. Frederic Merrifield, and Mr. George H. Verrall, as 

 Vice-Presidents during the Session 1893-1894. 



Mr. Charles R. C. Hibbert, of Holfield Grange, Coggeshall, Essex ; 

 Mr. Oswald B. Lower, of Bleak House, Parkside, Adelaide, South 

 Australia; and Mr. John Baxter Oliver, of 12, Avenue Road, St. John's 

 Wood, N.W., were elected Fellows of the Society. 



Mr. S. Stevens exhibited a specimen of Chcerocampa celerio, in very 

 fine condition, captured at light, in Hastings, on the 26th September last, 

 by Mr. Johnson. 



Mr. A. J. Chitty exhibited specimens of Gibbiwn scotias and Pentar- 

 thrum huttoni, taken by Mr. Rye in a cellar in Shoe Lane. He stated 

 that the Gibbium scotias lived in a mixture of beer and sawdust in the cellar, 

 and that when this was cleaned out the beetles disappeared. The Pentar- 

 thrum huttoni lived in wood in the cellar. He also exhibited Mezium 

 affine, taken by himself in a granary in Holborn. 



Mr. McLachlan exhibited a large Noctuid moth, which had been placed 

 in his hands by Mr. R. H. Scott, F.R.S., of the Meteorological Office. It 

 was stated to have been taken at sea in the S. Atlantic, in about lat. 28° S. 

 long. 26° W. Col. Swinhoe and the President made some remarks on the 

 species, and on the migration of many species of Lepidoptera. 



Mr. W. F. H. Blandford exhibited larvge and pupae of Rhynchophorus 

 pahnarum, L., the Gru-gru Worm of the West Indian Islands, which is 

 eaten as a delicacy by the Negroes and by the French Creoles of 

 Martinique. He stated that the existence of post-thoracic stigmata in the 

 larva of R. cruentatus had been mentioned by Candeze, but denied by 

 Leconte and Horn. They were certainly present in the larva of R. 

 palmarum, but were very minute. He also exhibited a piece of a drawing- 

 board, showing extensive injury by Longicorn larvae during a period 

 extending over seven years. 



Mr. G. T. Porritt exhibited two varieties of Arctia lubricipeda from 

 York ; an olive-banded specimen of Bombyx quercus from Huddersfield ; 

 and a small melanic specimen of Melanippe hastata from Wharncliffe 

 Wood, Yorkshire. 



Mr. H. Goss exhibited a few species of Lepidoptera, Coleoptera, 

 Hemiptera, and Neuroptera, sent to him by Major G. H. Leathern, of the 

 81st Regiment, who had collected them, last June and July, whilst on a 

 shooting expedition in Kashmere territory. Some of the specimens 

 were taken by Major Leathern at an elevation of from 10,000 to 11,000 



