Entomological Society. 273 



. Hah. Island of Ticao, Philippines (found under stones at low 

 ■water) ; Cuming. 



The ridges of this very delicate and pretty shell are slightly nodu- 

 lous, and prickly on the angle. 



MiTRA PATULA. Mitr, testd ovatd, tenuiculd, ventricosiusculd, Ice- 

 vigatd ; cinered, fusco hie illic variegatd et nehulatd ; columelld 

 quadriplicatd ; aperturd ampld ; labro tenui, supernt sinuate. 



Conch. Icon., Mitra, pi. 39. f. 333. 



Hab. ? 



Very distinct from any form of the genus I have met with. 



Mitra alveolus. Mitr. testd ahhreviato-ovatd, spirce suturis pro- 

 funde impressis ; longitudinaliter suhtiliter pUcato-costatd, basi 

 transversim sulcatd ; anfractibus inferri^ aterrimis, supern^ albis, 

 nigra tessellatis ; columelld quadriplicatd. 

 Conch. Icon., Mitra, pi. 39. f. 334. 



Hab. .> 



A characteristic tessellated species, from the collection of Thomas 

 Norris, Esq. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



January 1st, 1844. — The President in the Chair. 



An extract from a letter addressed by the Rev. Mr. Savage to the 

 Rev. F. W. Hope was read, giving an account of the capture of a 

 new species of Goliath Beetle on the west coast of Africa, Mecyno- 

 rhina Savagii (Harris, Journ. of Boston Nat. Hist. Soc. vol. iv. pi. 21; 

 Westw. Arc. Ent. ii.pl. 81. f. 1, 2). 



Extracts were also read from two letters addressed to Mr. Hope by 

 C. D. E. Fortnum, Esq., giving some account of the entomology in the 

 neighbourhood of Port Adelaide, and mentioning some particulars 

 respecting the reproduction of the limbs in a species of Phasmidee, 

 Diura violascens, Gray, a larva of which (about one inch long and 

 having much the appearance of a Bacillus) had its left intermediate 

 leg broken off when captured. It fed on the young leaves of the gum- 

 tree. Eucalyptus, and grew very fast. On the first moult after the 

 accident a small leg appeared on the old stump, but with a withered 

 appearance, and apparently the joints were not formed. At the se- 

 cond moult the leg had grown to half its natural size, with all the 

 joints perfect. The third moulting produced the pupa with the leg 

 about two-thirds of the original size. On the change to the imago 

 the limb had regained its full size. Mr. Fortnum adds, that the 

 young Phasmidte invariably eat the old skin after moulting. He also 

 mentions the capture of a species of Mantispa and one of Ascalaphus. 

 In a subsequent communication he mentions the capture of several 

 apparently new species of Phasmidte, and states that Diura violascens 

 and roseipennis are the sexes of the same species, having reared several 

 from the larva. He had collected a great many species of ants, and 

 "several new predaceous beetles (including a beautiful Harpalus with 



