Entomological Society. 



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June 6, 1859. — Dr. Gray, President, in the chair. 



Donations. 



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

 the donors:—' The Journal of the Royal Dublin Society,' Nos. 12 and 13 ; presented 

 by the Society. 'Journal of Proceedings of the Linnean Society,' Supplement to 

 Botany, No. 2 ; by the Society. ' Catalogue of the described Diptera of North Ame- 

 rica,' prepared for the Smithsonian Institution, by R. Osten-Sacken ; by the Smith- 

 sonian Institution. ' List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection 

 of the British Museum,' by Francis Walker, F.L.S., &c, Part XVII., Pyralides ; by 

 the Author. 'The Zoologist' for June ; by the Editor. ' Bibliotheca Historico- 

 Naturalis heraus gegaban,' von Ernst A. Zuchold, Achter Jahrgang, Heft 2; by the 

 Author. 1 Boston Journal of Natural History,' Vol. vi. No. 4. ' Proceedings of the 

 Boston Society of Natural History,' Vol. vi. Nos. 11 — 22 ; by the Society. ' Eleventh 

 Annual Report of the Board of Agriculture of the State of Ohio,' to the Governor, for 

 the year 1856 ; by the Board. ' Report of the Commissioner of Patents for the year 

 1856;' by the Patent Office of the United States. 'The Journal of the Society of 

 Arts ' for May ; by the Society. ' The Literary Gazette ' for May ; by the Editor. 

 1 The Athenaeum ' for April and May ; by the Editor. ' The Entomologist's Weekly 

 Intelligencer,' Nos. 137 — 140; 'A Manual of British Butterflies and Moths,' Nos. 

 31 and 32 ; by H. T. Stainton, Esq. ' Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung,' Nos. 

 1 — 6 ; by the Entomological Society of Stettin. ' Fabricia Entomologica,' Part I., 

 No. 3 ; by the Author, M. H. Jekel. ' Description de la Leptura Militaris,' par M. 

 Aug. Chevrolat ; 'Description de Nouvelles especes de Coleopteres, par M. Aug. 

 Chevrolat ; by the Author. 



Exhibitions. 



Mr. Stevens exhibited some fine examples of both sexes of Papilio (Enomaus, 

 sent from Tern ate by Mr. Wallace. 



Mr. Stevens also exhibited specimens of Lcemophleeus Clematiclis, of which spe- 

 cies above a hundred examples had been captured by Dr. Power, Mr. Jeakes and 

 himself, near Gravesend ; Stenolophus elegans, of which Dr. Power and himself had 

 secured about fifty, at Southend ; and a living example of Hetserius sesquicornis, one 

 of several which he had recently taken near Hampstead, in nests of Formica fusca. 



Mr. Janson exhbiled specimens of Haploglossa gentilis, found by Mr. F. Smith, 

 in company of Formica fuliginosa, at Hampstead. The species had not hitherto 

 been detected in this country. 



Mr. R. B. Were exhibited a specimen of Crioceris merdigera having a transverse 

 lateral black patch on each elytron, which had been recently found in a garden at 

 Homerton. 



Mr. Stainton stated that when at Ratisbon lately, Dr. Herrich-Schaffer had 

 informed him of a new Lepidopterous insect frequenting ants' nests, which he had 

 received from the East Indies ; and he had been exceedingly surprised to hear that 

 this new inmate of the formicarium was a butterfly, apparently of the family Lycce- 

 nidae. Dr. Herrich-Schaffer had been assured that this insect made no use of its 

 wings, and merely walked about in the ants' nests, having thick legs, of a peculiar 

 construction, not unlike wooden legs. 



