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as a slight testimony of nay esteem for him as a zealous prosecutor of Entomo- 

 logical research. This rare and beautiful insect was first obtained in Baltimore 

 on the common Grape, but a specimen was brought from Evansville, Ind., by Mr. 

 Wild, who obtained it from the Mulberry, and another specimen has since been 

 captured by me upon that tree. 



PACHNEPHORUS, Chevr. 



P. viticolus. Brownish-black, clothed with a dense ashy pubescence ; be- 

 neath, and legs blackish. 2h lines long. Baltimore. 



Densely ashy pubescent : head closely punctured, frontal line impressed, labrum 

 blackish ; palpi and basal joints of the antennae testaceous, terminal joints 

 dusky above : thorax finely, and densely punctured ; rather dilated in the middle : 

 scutellum densely pubescent : elytra punctate-striate, interstices finely shagreened ; 

 ground color a little lighter upon the tips : beneath, and legs blackish ; articula- 

 tions of the legs faintly reddish-testaceous. 



NEMOGNATHA, Illig. 



N. fla-Vipennis. Body black ; head, thorax and elytra yellow. 



5 lines long. Virginia. 



Body black: head yellow, eyes and antenrue black, mandibles and palpi 

 piceous, maxillary filaments yellow : thorax subquadrate, finely and minutely 

 punctured: scutel same color as elytra, minutely punctured: elytra dusky 

 yellow towards the tip: legs yellow, finely sericeous pubescent, tarsi black 

 venter somewhat pubescent. Spurs of the posterior tibiae small, acute. 



The Committee on Mr. Cassia's description of a new species of Parrot, 

 reported in favor of publication in the Journal. 



The Report of the Corresponding Secretary for Oct. and Nov. 1855 

 was read. 



ELECTIONS. 



Dr. Robert F. Brown, and Dr. Samuel Moore, of Philadelphia, and Mr. 

 Samuel D. Howell, of Camden, N. J., were elected Members. 



December 4 th. 

 The President, Mr. Ord, in the Chair. 



Letters were read 



From Dr. Samuel Moore, dated Philadelphia, 3d Dec. 1855, acknow- 

 ledging the receipt of his notice of election as a member : 



From C. A. Dos Santos, dated Rio de Janeiro, 11th Oct. 1855, ac- 

 knowledging the receipt of his notice of election as a Correspondent : 



From the Imperial Society of Naturalists of Moscow, dated 13th and 

 26th of June, 1854: 



From the Imperial Geological Institute of Vienna, dated 20th May, 

 1855: 



From the Royal Society of Agriculture, Science, &c. of Lyons, dated 

 23d June, 1855 : 



From the Royal Academy of Sciences, Belles Lettres and Arts of 

 Lyons, dated 23d June, 1855 : 



