Entomological Society. 5639 



Pkoceedings of Societies. 

 Entomological Society. 

 March 2, 1857. — W. Wilson Saunders, Esq., President, in the chair. 



Donations. 



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

 donors: — 'The Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England,' Vol. xvii. Part 2 ; 

 presented by the Society. ' Proceedings of the Royal Society,' Vol. viii. Nos. 23 and 

 24 ; by the Society. ' Entomologisehe Zeitung,' 17th Annual Part (1856), and Nos. 

 11 and 12 for November and December of the same year; 'Linnaea Entomologica,' 

 Vol. ii. ; by the Entomological Society of Stettin. ' Monographia Cassididarum,' auc- 

 tore Carolo H. Boheman, Tomus tertius ; by the author. ' Anniversary Address deli- 

 vered to the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, at Berwick, January 30th, 1856, by 

 Robert Embleton, Surgeon, President ;' by the Club. ' Nouvelles Considerations sur 

 la Nidification des Guepes,' par H. De Saussure; by the Author. ' Uber eine neue 

 Fliegengattung : Raymondia, aus der Familie der Coriaceen, nebst Beschieibung 

 Zweier Arten derselben, Von Georg Frauenfeld ; by the Author. ' The Zoologist' for 

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

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

 January ; by the Editor. ' Elements of Entomology,' No. 6 ; 'A Manual of British 

 Butterflies and Moths,' No. 13; 'The Substitute,' Nos. 16—19; by H. T. Stainton, 

 Esq. 'Revue et Magasin de Zoologie,' 1856, No. 12; 1857, No. 1 ; by the Editor, 

 M. F. E. Guerin-Meneville. A cabinet containing British and foreign insects ; by 

 T. F. Dillon Croker, Esq. 



Election of a Member. 



T. F. Dillon Croker, Esq., F.G.S., of 6, Strand, was balloted for, and elected a 

 Member of the Society. 



Exhibitions. 



Mr. Wallace exhibited two specimens of Laphygma exigua, bred from eggs laid 

 by a female taken in the Isle of Wight, in July last ; and read the following descrip- 

 tion of the larvae : — 



" Pinkish brown on the back, pinkish yellow underneath ; a row of black spots 

 down the back, two rows on each side, between which are white spiracles, or rather a 

 darker ground than that outside the rows of black spots ; head and tail greenish. 

 Length, when full-grown, about 1 inch. Fed on plantain, remaining during the day 

 rolled up in the leaves or roots. The eggs were laid about July 18, and hatched in 

 three weeks ; larvae full-fed about September 12 ; and the perfect insects now exhi- 

 bited emerged October 20." 



Mr. Douglas exhibited some small lepidopterous larvae found at the roots of grass. 

 He stated that he had lately taken a number of larvae and Coleoptera, especially 

 Staphylinidas, in marshy ground at Hammersmith, by cutting off grass below the sur- 

 face of the ground, and shaking it over a sheet of paper. Great numbers of insects 



