208 Entomological Society. 



the Circine facial disc in the present bird, which is I believe new, 

 and belongs to Buteo proper and not to Circus. 



Buteo plumipes, mihi. — Throughout of a uniform dusky brown, 

 as in the moor buzzard ; region of the lores only albescent ; cere 

 and legs greenish yellow ; bill blue, with black tips and talons ; tail 

 very vaguely rayed with a paler shade of colour and wings inter- 

 nally. Of slender make, and with long and acute talons, whereas 

 the white head is of very robust make, and has less acute but stronger 

 talons. This is in make as in colours, a Circus ; that, a buzzard 

 proper or an eagle. In plumipes the tarse is scutellate before and 

 behind, reticulate to the sides and at base, and two-thirds of the 

 acropodia likewise are reticulate. The cere is large in both, and in 

 both the nares are longitudinally cleft and irregularly ovoid in form. 

 The one passes towards Buteo from Circus, the other towards Aquila 

 from Buteo. Length (fcem.), 19^ inches; bill, 1^- ; tail, 9 ; tarse, 3 ; 

 central toe and nail, 2 ; hind, 1;^. Procured in the central hilly re- 

 gion. Manners not noted. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY, 



October 2nd, 1843. — George Newport, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



Captain Parry exhibited a box of Coleopterous insects from Co- 

 lombia, inchiding Megasoma Elephas, a curious genus allied to Me- 

 galopus, and another apparently allied to Ancistrosoma. 



Mr. Westwood exhibited a gynandromorphous specimen of En- 

 dromis versicolor from the collection of Dr. Becker, the antennae and 

 wings on the left-hand side being masculine, and those of the right 

 side being female. 



The Rev. F. W. Hope exhibited a specimen of the laiTa of Acilius 

 voided by a boy at Tunbridge Wells. 



The following memoirs were read : — 



** Description of new species of exotic Coleoptera." By the Rev. 

 F. W. Hope, F.R.S. 



Lucanus Parryi, Hope. Niger nitidus, mandibulis longitudine capite 

 cequalibus, apicibus acutis supra dentatis ; elytris glabris ; tibiis 

 anticis exterrie serratis, posticis unispinosis . Long. corp. lin. 

 \Q\\ lat. lin. 5J. A ffinis Ij. ne'^^lQii&i, Hope. — Hab. in Agro 

 Nepalensi. Mus. Pariy. 



Lucanus Vitulus, Dejean (ined.) ? . Niger nitidus glaber, man' 

 dibulis brevibus acutis; thorace marginato, angulis anticis hand 

 productis, posticis parum rotundatis ; tibiis anticis externe denti- 

 culatis, posticis 4 in medio unispinosis. Long. corp. lin. 16 ; lat. 

 lin. 6. — Hab. in Java. Mus. Buquet. 



Lucanus (Hexarthrius) Buquettii, Hope. Niger, mandibulis exsertis 

 arcuatis, apicibus 2-furcatis, introrsum crenatis unidentatis den- 

 teque majori fere basali ; capite thoraceque scabriusculis ; tibiis 

 intermediis 1-spinosis, posticis 2 inermibus. Long. corp. lin. 35 ; 

 lat. lin. 9.— Hab. in Java. Mus. Buquet. 



