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Entomological Society. 



' Synopsis of the Described Lepidoptera of North America,' Part 1 (Diurnal and Cre- 

 puscular Lepidoptera), by John G. Morris ; 'Synopsis of the Neuroptera of North America, 

 with a List of the South-American Species,' by Herman Hagen ; all compiled for and 

 presented by the Smithsonian Institute. * Proceedings of the Entomological Society of 

 Philadelphia for 1861 and 1862;' by the Society. ' Notes on the Thysanura,' Part 1 

 (Sminthuridae) ; by the Author, John Lubbock, F.R.S., &c. 1 Proceedings of the Lite- 

 rary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool during the Fifty-first Session, 1861—62,' 

 No. xvi.; by the Society. * The Zoologist ' for December ; by the Editor. ' On the 

 Genus Colias in North America ;' by the Author, Samuel H. Scudder. Taylor's 

 4 Calendar of the Meetings of the Scientific Bodies of London for 1862 — 63;' by the 

 Publishers. 'The Journal of the Society of Arts' for November; by the Society. 

 ' Wiener Entomologische Monatschrift,' Band I — V ; by Julius Lederer. ' Die Noc- 

 tuinen Europa's mit Zuzichung einiger bishermeist dazu gezahlten Arlen des Asiat- 

 ischen Russland's, Kleinasien's, Syrien's uud Labrador's : systeraatisch bearbeitet von 

 Julius Lederer ; ' by the Author. 



New Members. 



Percy C. Wormald, Esq., of 6, Brondesbury Terrace, Kilburn, was ballotted for and 

 elected a Member of the Society. 



Certificates in favour of F. Moore, Esq. (a Subscriber to the Society), and of E. A. 

 Smith, Esq., of 27, Richmond Crescent, Islington, as Members, were read for the first 

 time, and ordered to be suspended in the Meeting Room. 



Exhibitions , $-c. 



Mr. Htevens exhibited a fine collection of Coleoptera and Diurnal Lepidoptera, 

 collected by Mr. A. R. Wallace in New Guinea and the adjacent island of Salwatty. 



Mr. F. Moore exhibited specimens of a white sacchariue substance or kind of 

 " manna," which is found abundantly on the leaves of certain Eucalypti (E. dumosa, 

 &c), in the north-west parts of Australia Felix, and is eaten by the natives, who call 

 it " lerp " or " laap." This substance is stated by Mr. T. Dobson (Proc. Royal Society 

 of Van Dieman's Land, 1851) to be the cup-like coverings of a species of Psylla (P. 

 Eucalypti), formed by the insect whilst in the larva state. 



Mr. Hewitson sent for exhibition some stems of laurel trees, with the following 

 note in reference thereto : — 



" In cutting down some laurels, at some four or five feet from the ground, I noticed 

 that they were pierced longitudinally by a round hole about the size of a pistol-bullet, 

 at first open and clear, afterwards filled with sawdust, but so loose that it was easily 

 pushed out for the length of a foot with a very slender stick ; but in cutting sections 

 from the tree lower down, though the hole increased in size, it also became more ob- 

 structed until near the root, where (although there is still an indication of the perfor- 

 ation) the hole proceeds no further after passing through nearly five feet of solid wood. 

 One piece of the tree shows where the hole commences, at the side where a branch has 

 been cut off ; the other was four feet lower down, where the hole becomes obstructed 

 and looks more like decay than the boring of a grub. Is this a question for entomo- 

 logists or for arboriculturists?" 



To this query no satisfactory answer was given ; but it was suggested that the 

 perforation, if caused by a larva at all, was probably made by that of Zeuzera iEsculi. 



Mr. Waterhouse exhibited the following four British species of Coleoptera, viz., 



