Feb., 1847.] 149 



Dr. Morton read a notice by Mr. M. Tuoniey, State Geolo- 

 gist of South Carolina, of his discovery of the Cranium of 

 Zeuglodon cetoides, Owen, in the vicinity of Charleston ; ac- 

 companied with a drawing of the same. Referred to Dr. 

 Morton, Mr. R. C. Taylor and Dr. Leidy. 



A letter was presented by Mr. Moss, addressed by Mr. 

 Graf of St. Petersburg to Baron Wrangel, in relation to ex- 

 changes of Birds between the latter and the Academy. Re- 

 ferred to the Zoological committee. 



Mr. Gliddon presented a translation of the Hieroglyphical 

 inscription on the Sarcophagus of the Egyptian Mummy now 

 in the Academy. 



Meeting for Business, February 23, 1847. 

 Vice President "Wetherill in the Chair. 

 The Committee to whom was referred Mr. Haldeman's pa- 

 per read on the 2d inst., reported in favor of publication. 



Descriptions of several new species and one new genus of Insects, 



By S. S. Haldeman, A. M. 



Blethisa quadricollis. Black, somewhat bronze ; head elon- 

 gate, transversely impressed behind the eyes, which are promi- 

 nent ; frontal impressions long and bisinuate, posteriorly connected 

 with the transverse impression ; labrum quadrate, slightly bisinu- 

 ate anteriorly ; antennae steel blue, as long as the head and pro- 

 thorax, four basal articulations glabrous. Prothorax quadrate, 

 bitruncate, wider than the head, slightly rounded on the sides an- 

 teriorly, and very slightly sinuated behind the middle ; posterior 

 angles rounded ; margin depressed and reflexed ; transverse im- 

 pressions very deep, the anterior one in the arc of a circle ; dorsal 

 line deep, transversely wrinkled, bi- abbreviated ; basal impressions 

 deep, punctured, with an obtuse slightly elevated ridge near the 

 margin. Elytra a little wider than the head, obtusely rounded 

 behind; deeply punctate-striate, strise somewhot interrupted; 

 3d interstice with four or five large fovea? ; 5th with three foveae, 

 the anterior one being behind the anterior one of the other range ; 

 6th with two fovese, one below the humerus, and one (sometimes 



