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bus elevatis pallide virescentibus, corpore infra roseo-cupreo, pectore ca- 

 pillis longis flavescentibus obsito. Long. lin. 9| ; lat. lin. 4|. 

 Hab, in Montibus Himalayanis. 



BUPRESTID^. 



Chrysochroa Edwardsii, viridi-aurata, thorace cupreo-purpureo, elytris 

 fascia irregulari macula flava insignitis, corpore subtus roseo-cupreo, 

 pedibus concoloribus. Long. lin. 27 ; lat. lin. 8|. 



This superb Buprestis approaches most nearly to that named Pe- 

 rottetii by M. Guerin. 



LoNGICORNES. 



Monochamus sulphurifer, corpore toto supra et infra flavo-sulphureo, 



antennis pedibusque nigro cinereoque variegatis. Long. lin. 13 ; lat. 



lin. 4f . 

 Purpuricenus ruhripennis, violaceus, elytris rubro-marginatis macula sub- 



quadrata in medio disco insignitis, pedibus concoloribus. Long. lin. 15 j 



lat. lin. 4. 



ZoNOPTERus, Hope. 

 Caput mandibulis arcuatis, fronte declivi, cornu brevi utrinque ad basin 



antennarum. Antennce 11-articulatae, articulo basali apice crassiore, 



2do minimo, 3tio longissimo, 4to fere dimidio minore, 6 sequentibus 



fere sequalibus, ultimo longiore acuto. Thorax depressus, capite dupld 



longior. Elytra thorace triplo longiora, parallela, apicibus rotundatis. 



Pedes femoribus 4 anterioribus incrassatis, posticis duplo majoribus 



subcompressis ; tibiis posticis subincurvis. 

 Zonopterus favitarsis, niger, antennis bicoloribus, thorace nigro-tomen- 



toso, elytris flavo-bifasciatis, femoribus tibiisque atris, tarsis flavis. 



Long. lin. 15 ; lat. lin. 4. 

 Colohothea rubricollis, rubro-picea, antennis concoloribus, elytris nigri- 



cantibus maculis flavo-ochraceis aspersis. Long. lin. 15 ; lat. lin. 4. 



Sagrid^e. 

 Sagra Carbunculus, cyanea, elytris igne auroque micantibus, pedibus pos- 

 ticis incrassatis ; tibiis incurvis. Long. lin. 4|. 



BOTANICAL SOCIETY OP LONDON. 



March 18, 1842.— John Edward Gray, Esq., F.R.S., &c.. President, 



in the Chair. 



The following donations were announced: — Parts 1, 2 and 3 of 

 • Algae Damnonienses,' and Fasciculus 1 of Berkeley's 'British Fungi,' 

 presented by Mrs. Margaret Stovin. The following specimens were 

 exhibited ; Oxalis stricta, collected at Penzance, and presented by 

 the Royal Horticultural Society of Cornwall ; Elceodendron Argan 

 (Retz.), collected in the province of Haha, near Deabet, Barbary, by 

 Dr. W. H. Willshire, and presented by him; Hypnum polymorphum 

 (Hedw.), collected on the sands of Barrie, Forfarshire, by Mr. Wm. 

 Gardiner, jun., and presented by him. 



A paper was read from Edwin Lees, Esq., F.L.S., &c., being 

 ** Remarks on the Flora of the Malvern Hills in the counties of Wor- 

 cester, Hereford, and Gloucester ; Part 2, the Hills and their imme- 

 diate Roots." 



In geological language the Malvern Hills form an eruptive or ig- 

 neous chain, stretching in a narrow ridge nearly due north and south 

 for upwards of nine mUes. Quartz, felspar, mica and hornblende are 



