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other genera of ants. By J. O. Westwood, F.L.S., since published 



in the Annals of Natural History. 



On a new species oiDynastes^n^ other Coleoptera. By the Rev. 



F. W. Hope. 



Dynastes Jupiter, H. Scutellatus, thoracis cornu medio maximo et 

 incurvo subtus barhato, cornubus duobus lateralibus thoracis lon- 

 gitudine, rectis ; thoracis dorso in cornu longissimo absque dente 

 in medio producto, cornu capitis porrecto recurvo, dimidio antico 

 supra multidentato . Long. corp. unc. 4. lin. 10. Inhabits New 

 Granada. Allied to D. Neptunus, Sch. 



Hexaphyllum Westwoodii, H. Nigrum, antennarum clava hrunnea, 

 thorace profunde rugoso-sulcato, elytris carinatis interstitiis reti- 

 culatis. Long. corp. lin. Q^. Inhabits New Granada. 



Pelidnota Victorina, H. Flavo-viridis, thorace fusco-aurantio, 

 suturd scutelloque concoloribus ; elytris pallid^ viridibus maculis 

 fusco-aurantiis aspersis, corporesubtils saturatiore,sterno trochan- 

 teribus geniculis tarsisque nigro-bronzeis. Long. corp. lin. 10. 

 Inhabits Mexico. 



Pelidnota Adelaida, H. Viridis, scutello aurato nitido, elytris fusco- 

 bronzeis, lineis viridi-auratis alternantibus , colore bronzeo-ochraceo 

 inquinatis. Long. corp. lin. 14. Inhabits Mexico. 



Pelidnota auripes, H. Tota prasina, pedibus auratis. Long. corp. 

 lin. 12. Inhabits Mexico. 



A Letter was read from Alexander Burn, Esq., dated Kaiva, Gu- 

 jerat, December 6th, 1839, addressed to the president of the Ento- 

 mological Society, accompanying a box containing two Indian species 

 of blister-flies which abound at Gujerat, and which he had found to 

 be equal as vesicants to the Spanish fly : indeed when used fresh a 

 liquor Lyttcc of greater strength and activity can be obtained from 

 them. The writer had called the attention of the Bombay Govern- 

 ment to these insects as objects indigenous to India, which might 

 be worthy of attention as articles of commerce. The first, Lytta 

 gigas, Fab., appears early in the season of the monsoon (August and 

 September), creeping along the ground, seldom using its wings, 

 and feeding on the young tender shoots of grasses. The other 

 species, Mylabris pustulata, Blbg. flies about all day and feeds on the 

 flowers of various plants, especially the esculent Cucurbitacece and 

 Hibiscus esculentus and cannabinus, abounding in some seasons to 

 such an extent as to prove extremely destructive to the plants, 

 hardly a single blossom escaping them. To the market gardeners 

 they are therefore a great nuisance, and as the objection to destroy 

 animal life is extremely rank in this part of India, the only plan 

 adopted to get rid of them is picking them with the hand from the 

 plants into large earthern vessels, and sending them tf» a distance of 

 a mile or two to be set free in any wild or uncultivated spot. 



In reference to the above letter Mr. G. Newport stated that he 

 had ascertained that Melo'e Proscarabteus, the common English species, 

 was highly diuretic, and it was suggested that as the two species of 



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