1880.] 



THE YOUNG NATURALIST. 



Reports of Societies. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



June 5th, 1889.— The Right Hon. Lord Walsingham, M.A., F.R.S., President, 

 in the chair. Mr. W. M. Christy, of Watergate, Emsworth, was elected a Fellow 

 of the Society. 



Mr. S. Stevens exhibited a specimen of Acrolepia assectella, Zeller, included in a 

 lot of Tineida purchased by him at the sale of the late Mr. A. F. Sheppard's collec- 

 tion, and determined by Mr. Stainton. He also exhibited, for comparison, a speci- 

 men of A . betuletella. 



Mr. J. J. Walker, R.N., exhibited a collection of Lepidoptera made in 1887 an ^ 

 1888 in the immediate vicinity of the Straits of Gibraltar. The collection included 

 68 species of butterflies, of which 36 were obtained on the Rock of Gibraltar itself, 

 and the remainder on the European side of the Straits, and about 160 species of 

 moths. 



Dr. P. B. Mason exhibited a number of specimens of a South European species 

 of Ant — Crematogaster scutellaris, Oliv. He said that the specimens were all taken in 

 the fernery of Mr. Baxter, of Burton-on-Trent, and had probably been imported 

 with cork. 



Mr. O. E. Janson exhibited a pair of Neptunides stanleyi, a species of Cetoniida, 

 recently received from Central Africa, and described by him in the February num- 

 ber of The Entomologist; also some varieties of N. polychrous, Thorns., from the 

 Zanzibar district. 



Dr. N. Manders exhibited a number of Lepidoptera collected by himself in the 

 Shan States, Upper Burmah ; also a collection of Lepidoptera made by Captain 

 Raikes in Karenni. 



Mr. M'Lachlan exhibited over 400 specimens of Neuroptera, being a portion of 

 the collection formed in Japan by Mr. H. J. S. Pryer. They represented nearly all 

 groups (excepting Odonata, now in the hands of Baron De Selys). Some of the 

 Ascaldphida, Panorpida and especially Trichoptera, were of great beauty ; notably 

 amongst the latter was the curious moth-like genus Perissoneura, M'Lach. 



Dr. Sharp exhibited the peculiar cocoons of an Indian Moth, Rhodia newara, 

 Moore ; these were the cocoons possessing a drain at the bottom in order to allow 

 water to escape, already described in the " Proceedings of the Zoological Society " 

 for 1888, p. 120, where, however, their great resemblance to the pods of a plant had 

 not been alluded to. 



Mr. Enock exhibited, and made remarks on, specimens of Cecidomyia destructor, 

 bred from American wheat. 



Mr. W. Warren exhibited a bred specimen of Retinia posticana, Zett., from New- 

 market ; also specimens of Eupithecia jasioneata and Gelechia confinis, bred by Mr. 

 Gardner, of Hartlepool. 



Mr. C. O. Waterhouse exhibited and explained a number of diagrams illustrative 

 of the external characters of the eyes of insects. A discussion ensued, in which Mr. 



