336 New Species of Popillia. 



Society, in the event of his being able to make an arrange- 

 ment with a party, to whom he had parted with them as an 

 article of commerce. One of these specimens was a remark- 

 ably fine skin of a species of Colobus described by Mr. Ogil- 

 by some time since, in the Society's 'Proceedings,' under the 

 name of ursinus ; the skin, however, upon which Mr. Ogilby 

 founded his species, was imperfect, and until the opportunity 

 afforded by the inspection of the present specimen, nothing 

 was known of the colour of the head and face, which prove to 

 be greyish white. The other skin was a new species of the 

 genus Cercopithecus, peculiar for its long fur, and for the hair 

 being parted down the middle of the back, as in most of the 

 Colobi. The specific name of C. Campbelli was proposed 

 for the above animal. 



Mr, Ogilby exhibited and described various species of kan- 

 garoo rats, {Hypsiprimnus), from the Society's collection, and 

 read several extracts relating to them from a paper which he 

 had prepared upon the subject, so long ago as the year 1832, 

 and which, though partly read before the Linnean Society at 

 that time, had never been made public, owing to the imper- 

 fection of the materials then in this country, for the perfect 

 illustration of the genus. Reserving the detail of his obser- 

 vations for an express monograph, Mr. Ogilby briefly charac- 

 terized the following species. Hyp. setosus, myosurus, me- 

 lanotis, formosus, Philippi, cuniculus, and murinus. 



A new Chameleon from Fernando Po was then described 

 by Mr. Martin, who proposed to call it C. Bibroni, in ac- 

 knowledgement of the great assistance he had derived from 

 the work of M. Bibron, whilst engaged upon the determina- 

 tion of the species of Reptilia in the Society's collection. 



New species of Popillia. — At the Entomological Society 

 on Monday evening, the 7th of May, a paper by Mr. Newman 

 on the genus Popillia, (Leach), was read. The author de- 

 scribes twenty-one new species, as under. 



1. V.regina. Omnino laete viridi-aenea, glabra, splendidissima : elytra 

 profunde striata, striispunctatis: mesosternum valde productum, curvatura. 

 Habitat Asia. Corp. long. .7 unc. lat. .45 unc. 



2. P. dorsigera. Nigro-senea, elytrorum fascia mediana transversa com- 

 muni fulva: podex brunneus pilis albis bisignatus: elytra striata striis 

 punctatis et (lmo excepto) abbreviatis. Habitat Africa. Corp. long. .75 

 unc. lat. .4 unc. 



3. P. brunnea. Nigra ; clypeo, antennis, elytris, pedibusque brunneis, 

 metatarsis piceis: podex pilis albis bisignatus : elytra striata striis puctatis. 

 Habitat Africa. Corp. long. .65 unc. lat. .4 unc. 



4. P. JEneas. Olivaceo-viridis ; antennis, pedibusque brunneis, meta- 

 tarsis piceis : podex pilis albis bisignatis : elytra punctato-striata. Habitat 

 Africa. Corp. long. .65 unc. lat. .4 unc. 



