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picea^ punctis fortiter insculptis ; corpus infra concolor, pedibus 

 pallidioribus. Long. lin. 5, lat. lin. \\, 



Sp. 30. AUecula Gouldii. Affinis prcEcedenti at minor ; picea, tho- 

 race glabro convexo ; elytris parum pallidioribus striato-punc- 

 tatis, punctis leviter impressis ; corpus infra rubra -piceum. 



Named in honour of Mr. Gould, the ornithologist. 



Sp. 31. Allecula nigricans, Hope. Atro-picea^ thorace punctu- 

 lata ; elytris striato-punctatis, interstitiis striarum sparsim punc- 

 tatis ; corpus infra piceum, pedibus concoloribus. Long. lin. 4|^. 



This species was also sent to me by Mr. Gould from Port Essington. 



" Notice of a case of Myasis,'' by Dr. Henry Johnson (commu- 

 nicated by the Rev. F. W. Hope), in which specimens of the larvae 

 of Anthomyia canicularis had been discharged, in June 1842, by the 

 aid of moderately active aperients, from the stomach of Elizabeth 

 Ball, aged 35, the wife a hawker (and who had for six months pre- 

 viously been ill) at Shrewsbury, specimens of which had been for- 

 warded to Mr. Hope, together with a highly magnified figure of the 

 insect, drawn by W. A. Leighton, Esq., agreeing with that figured in 

 the Transactions of the Entomological Society. Dr. Johnson more- 

 over suggested the inquiry, whether the larvae produce the disorder 

 of the stomach, or are they secondary consequences of unhealthy 

 digestion ? the latter opinion gaining ground at the present time 

 among medical men. 



The Rev. F. W. Hope also communicated an extract of a notice by 

 Dr. Davis ofPresteign, from the Proceedings of the Exeter Meeting 

 of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, containing a 

 notice of a case in which a number of Millepedes^ or wood-lice as 

 they were termed (but which proved upon examination to be a spe- 

 cies of Oniscus)^ had been discharged from the stomach of a boy 

 fifteen years old, who for some months had complained of pain in 

 his stomach which did not yield to common remedies, until he was 

 relieved by a strong emetic which caused him to vomit a consider- 

 able number of these insects, mostly alive and full-grown, but want- 

 ing the brown colour of those found in natural situations, being 

 chiefly white. There were sufl[icient to have filled a common-sized 

 teacup. Dr. Davis considered that the ova had been swallowed by 

 the boy with his food, especially as he has frequently observed the 

 insects buried in bacon, which is sometimes eaten raw by children. 



The Rev. F. W. Hope also stated that he had lately seen at Tun- 

 bridge Wells the larva of a Coleopterous insect which had caused 

 severe illness in a female until it was removed by violent medicine. 



October 3. — W. W. Saunders, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



The President exhibited some singular exotic Hymenopterous 

 insects belonging to the genera Nomia and Eucharis. 



Mr. Thurston Thompson exhibited a specimen of the small com- 

 mon edible crab {Carcinus moiuas), on the back of which a madre- 

 pore had grown several times larger than the crab. 



The Secretary read some extracts from a letter addressed to him- 

 self by Robert Templeton, Esq., R.A., at present at Colombo in 



