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punctured. Thorax with the sides very slightly, if at all, sinuated 

 posteriorly, the posterior angles rounded and not sharp, so as to 

 leave visible part of the mesothorax : the front edge of thorax 

 nearly straight ; the puncturing very indistinct ; the scutellum 

 proportionally larger than in other species of the genus. Elytra 

 much longer and narrower, the segments of the body projecting 

 considerably beyond them ; the sutural edge more ridged ; near 

 the suture is a longitudinal somewhat raised costa, the elytra are 

 punctured, the punctures generally running in longitudinal lines. 

 The specimen is a female, and excepting in the legs being much 

 less stout and hairy, they have a considerable resemblance to those 

 of the D. dorsalis ; the tarsi of the first pair of legs are wanting. 

 Note. — The name Bassii is intended as a small compliment to 

 the bold and great discoverer, whose name will be ever comme- 

 morated in the wide ocean-strait which separates Van Diemen's 

 Land from the great Australian continent. The name and dis- 

 coveries of George Bass, surgeon of the ' Reliance/ are well re- 

 lated in the pages of Capt. Flinders : " he was a man whose 

 ardour for discovery was not to be repressed by any obstacles, 

 nor deterred by danger." — Flinders' Voyage to Terra Australis, 

 I. xcvii. By botanists he is commemorated in the genus 

 Bassia. 



It is not out of place here to make a few remarks in correction 

 of, and addition to, the lately published ' Nomenclature of Co- 

 leopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum, 

 Part I. Cetoniadce,' which was issued before Dr. Schaum had an 

 opportunity of seeing the national collection. This eminently 

 scientific entomologist has acquired, by purchase, the very spe- 

 cimens of Messrs. Gory and Percheron's ' Monographic des 

 Cetoines;' he has had the advantage of Mr. Macleay's and Dr. 

 Burmeister's (still more extensive) labours ; and having had that 

 " learned leisure," which so few of the desc ibing naturalists of 

 this country can share even in the smallest portion, he has seen 

 and studied the collections in Berlin, Paris and other places. 



The results of his assiduous researches he has communicated 

 in the f Zeitschrift f iir die Entomologie ' of his uncle, Dr. Germar, 

 and in the ' Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France/ A 

 still further revision of this group may now be expected, since 

 his visit to the British Islands. 



On p. 2 add B.M. to Mycteristes rhinophyllus from Java, as 

 we have lately acquired it. 



Page 3 : Dr. Schaum tells me that Compsocephalus Galinieri, 

 Reiche, notwithstanding what M. Reiche has written in the 

 ' Revue Zoologique Cuvierienne/ is after all, what I suspected, 

 only synonymous with C. Horsfieldianus, White, described and 



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