1890] THE YOUNG NATURALIST. 137 



REPORTS OF SOCIETIES. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



June \th, 1890. — The Right Hon. Lord Walsingham, M.A., F.R.S., President, 

 in the chair. 



Mr. George William Carter, M.A., F.L.S., of Lime Grove, Knottingley, York- 

 shire ; and Mr. R. Newstead, of The Museum, Chester, were elected Fellows ; and 

 Mr. Oliver Goldthwait and Mr. John W. Downing were admitted into the Society. 



The Secretary exhibited, on behalf of Mr. J. Edwards, Norwich, two specimens 

 of Ilybius subcBtieus, Er., and a single specimen of Bidessus unistriatus, Schr. Mr. 

 Champion alluded to the fact that the only recorded British specimens of the first- 

 mentioned beetle had been taken many years ago at Peckham. The species is, very 

 closely allied to I . fenestrates , F., but the posterior tarsi of the male have the joints 

 externally margined at their lower edge, whereas in the male of the last-mentioned 

 species they are not margined ; this character was very plain in the male specimen 

 sent by Mr. Edwards. Lord Walsingham, in alluding to the exhibit, referred to the 

 list of Norfolk Coleoptera compiled some years ago by Mr. Crotch, which appears to 

 have been lost sight of. 



Mr. Verrall exhibited a specimen of a fly in amber, belonging to a genus allied to 

 the genus Psycho da. 



Mr. M'Lachlan alluded to the damage done by insects to orange-trees in Malta, 

 and stated that the Rev. G. Henslow had lately been studying the question ; one of 

 the chief depredators was the widely-spread " fly," Ceratitis citriperda, well known as 

 devastating the orange. He found, however, that another and more serious enemy 

 was the larva of a large Longicorn beetle (Cerambyx miles, Bon)., which bores into the 

 lower part of the stem and down into the roots, making large galleries ; in all 

 probability the larva, or that of an allied species, is the true Cossus of the ancients. 

 Lord Walsingham stated that a species of Prays allied to P. oleellus and our common 

 P. curtisellus was known to feed in the buds of the orange and lemon in Southern 

 Europe. Mr. Pascoe, Mr. Champion, and others, took part in the discussion which 

 followed, 



The Secretary, on behalf of Miss Carr, exhibited a portfolio of drawings of Indian 

 Lepidoptera and their food-plants. 



The following papers were communicated, and were read by the Secretary : — 

 " Notes on the species of the families Lycida and Lampyrida contained in the Imperial 

 Museum of Calcutta, with descriptions of new species, and a list of the species at 

 present described from India," by the Rev. H. S. Gorham ; and " A Catalogue of 

 the Rhopalocerous Lepidoptera collected in the Shan States, with notes on the 

 country and climate," by N. Manders. Esq., Surgeon, Medical Staff. The latter 

 paper contained a very interesting description of the chief physical features of the 

 Shan States and neighbouring parts of Burmah. — H. Goss and W. W. Fowler, 

 Hon. Secretaries. 



