XX JOURNAL OF PROCEEDISGY. gratitude throughout India, although he could state from experience that gnats penetrated through the musquito bed-curtains. Whcre- upon Mr. Spence noticed the necessity which existed for minutely investigating the circumstances attending the apparent abhorence of to pass through nets. Mr. Westwood, in noticing Mr. Saunders’s observations upon the Iiidian species of Pelopeus (see p. 63.) and with reference to Mr. Shuckard‘s memoir upon the Fossorial , read at a former meeting, mentioned that the structure. of the female insect warranted the conclusion of Mr. Saunders as to its parasitic habits ; the fore legs in that sex, instead of being strongly ciliated, as in the real burrowing hymenoptera, being simple, thus confirming the views of M. de St. Fargeau.

J. G. Children, Esq., President, in the Chair.

DONATIONS. History and Proceedings of the Berwickshire Naturalist’s Club. Presented by that Society. Number 63 of Illustrations of British . By J. F. Ste- phens, F.L.S., the Author thereof. The Honey-Bee. Presented by Dr. Bevan, the Author thereof. Descriptions of some new British species of the May-flies of an- glers; and observations upon the genus Aclrlysia of M. Audouin. By John Curtis, Esq., F.L.S., &c., the Author thereof. Revue Entomologique. Par G. Silbermann, Nos. 1.2, 3, 4. Pre- sented by the Rev. F. W. Hope. Elogio Storico di Franco Andrea Bonelli, scritto dall’ Academic0 Profesgore Guiseppe Gene (Director of the Museum of Natural Hi- story of Turin) ; Saggio di una Monografia delle Forficule indigene. By the same Author; Osservazioni sulle abitudine e sulla Larva dell’ Apalus bimaculatus. By the same ; and Memoria di una specie di Cecidomia. By the same. All presented by Professor Gene. Monographie du genre Diaperis. Par MM. Laporte et Brulle ; Descriptions et Figures de quelques Arachnides nouveaux. Par M. LCon Dufour ; JOURNAL OF I’ROCEEDINGS. xxi

Description de la Nycteribie de Vespertilion. By the same ; Description de quelques esp6ces du genre Phalangium: By the same ; Description du Sylocoris rufipennis. By the same. All presented by J. 0. Westwood. Dejean, Species general de ColCopthres, Vols. 4, 5 and 6, were also upon the table, purchased by the Society. Twenty species of British and Coleoptera. By W. Raddon, Esq. Specimens of the Ink Gall Nut, and of the insect by which it is produced (Cynips yallre tinctorice). Presented by Dr. Burton.

MEMOIRS,EXHIBITIONS, &c. Letters were read from Signor Passerini and Dr. Hammerschmidt, of Vienna, returning thanks for their election as Honorary Foreign Members of the Society. ‘l’he Rev. F. W. Hope communicated a letter and drawing which he had received from Mr. J. F. Davis of Bath, relative to a supposed fossil insect, found in the coral rag at Steeple Ashton, apparently belonging to the Isopodous Crustacea. The same gentleman also exhibited a large collection of Fossil Crustacea, collected by himself in the Isle of Sheppey. Mr. Westwood exhibited a specimen of Andrena nigrorenea, the four terminal joints of one of the tarsi of which had been devoured by an ant, the head of which alone remained attached to the limb. It had been captured in this state by himself whilst on the wing. He read some notices in illustration of the pertinacity with which ants attack larger objects : thus the Formica elongata, Oh., attacks with its jaws, “et d’une maniere opiniltre,” the antennae and legs of a green Melolonthd of ‘l’ranquebar. Messrs. Kirby and Spence mention an instance in which Co1liuri.q loiigicollis was observed to have a minute dead ant, scarcely a thirteenth of its size, fixed by its jaws to one of the legs ; and in another case, an ant although deprived of half its body, contrived previously to expiring to carry off ten of the white pupae into the interior of the nest. (‘Introduction to Entomology,’ vol. ii. p. 101. and vol. i. p. 366.) The following Memoirs, &c. were read : Notice of the Proceedings at the Linnaan Society during the month of April, relative to Entomology, communicated by the Secre- tary, and consisting of a memoir by Edward Newman, Esq., F.L.S., upon the transformations of insects, subsequently published by the author in thc Entomological Magazine; also of the exhibition by Mr. xxii JOURNAL OF PROCEEDIXGS. Davidson of specimens of the Cane of the West Indies, Debhax saccharivora. “Descriptions of two new Coleoptera from the Swan Ever.” By the Rev. F. W. Hope. “Remarks upon a Passage in Herodotus referred to in Mr. Spence’s Paper read at the last Meeting relative to Gnats.” By W. B. Spence, Esq., For. Sec. E.S. (See p. 7.) “Observations on the most effectual Modes to be adopted for dis- covering successful Remedies against the Ravages of Insects, with a shortAccount of the Onion Fly, Anthomyia ceparum.” By J. 0.West- wood. Subsequently published by the author in the Magazine of Natural History, vol. vii. p. 425. “Descriptions of various Insects found in Gum anim4.” By the Rev. F. W. Hope. “Supplementary Notes upon the Habits of the Indigenous Fossorial Hymenoptera.” By W. E. Shuckard, Esq. (See p. 55.) “Further notice of Cucullia Thaps+haga.” By Mr. B. Standish. The Rev. F. W. Hope read a letter containing an account of the great injuries recently caused by the grub of the Tzjula oleracea upon grass lands, and requesting information as to the most effec- tual means for preventing its extension ; with reference to which, Mr. Spence observed that some years ago thc neighbourhood of Holdernesse was similarly attacked, but although many remedics were then proposed, none had been found successful. Mr. Yarrell, in allusion to the remedies proposed by h4r. West- wood against the Onion fly, and by Rusticus of Godalming against the Turnip fly (Haltica nemorum) in the ‘Entomological Magazine,’ observed, that as the seeds of the two plants attacked by these insects are inclosed in compact and closed pods which are carefully gathered by the seedsmen before they burst open, it was difficult to suppose that the parent fly could deposit her eggs upon the seeds of those plants, as had been suggested by those authors ; and added that the minute particles attached to the turnip seed mentioned by Rusticus exhibited no resemblance to the eggs of insects. A lengthened discussion took place on the subject of the ravages of insects in general and the proposed remedies, and it was agreed that the Society would gladly receive communications from any person, although not a member of the Society, who had noticed the proceedings of these of any destructive insects, or who had discovered any successful remedy against their attacks. Mr. Stephens observed that the moth reared by Mr. Standish and supposed to be the Cucullia Thapsiphaga appeared to him to be n new specics bclonging to a subgenus distinct from Cucullia, and of which JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS. xxiii another new British species had also come under his notice, and promised to lay an account of these insects before the society at a subsequent meeting.

June 2n4 1834.

The Rev. W. Kirby. F.R.S., Honorary President, in the Chair.

DONATIONS. Recherches pour servir B l’Histoire Naturelle du Littoral de France, Annelides, lme partie 1834. Par MM. Audouin et Edwards ; Notice sur . Par M. Audouin ; Recherches pour servir B 1’Histoire Naturelle de Cantharides. By the same ; Observations sur le Nid d’une AraipCe. By the same ; Lettre sur la Generation des Insectes. By the same ; Discours prononce sur la Tombe de M. Latreille. By the same ; Exposition de l’Anatomie cornpar& du Thorax des Insertes ailCs. Par M. MacLeay, accompagnke de Notes par M. Audouin ; Notice sur les Travaux de M. Audouin ; Rapport par M. Cuvier sur un Ouvrage de M. Audouin : viz., Rc- eherches Anatomiques sur le Thorax des Animaux ArticulCs; Description de l’Hipponoe, nouveau genre d’Annelides. Par MM. Andouin et Edwards; MCmoire sur 1’Anatomie et Physiologie des CrustacCs. By the same ; Rapport, par M. Cuvier, sur trois MCmoires de MM. Audouin et Edwards, sur les Animaux Invertkbres du Littoral de France ; Report by M. Geoffroy Saint Hilaire, upon a Memoir by the same Authors, consisting of Anatomical Researches upon the Nervous System of the Crustacea ; Report by Messrs. Cuvier and Dumeril upon the Researches of the same Authors upon the Invertebrated Animals of the Coast of France; All presented by M. Victor Audouin, Professor at the Jardin des Plantes, Paris. For. Hon. Member of the Society. Beitrage zur Lehre von der Geographische Verbreitung der In- sekten. By Professor Reich, of Berlin. Presented by the Author. Annales de la Societ6 Entomologique de France, vols. 1. and 2. Presented by that Society. Number 3 of British Entomology, 2nd Edition (without plates). By J. Curtis, Esq., F.L.S., the Author thcrcof.