468 Entomological Society. 



melld quadriplicatd ; labio externo in medio incurvo, extus leviter 

 varicoso. 

 Differing from M. lactea of Kiener in being wider at the anterior 

 termination, and in the outer lip not being so much elevated. 



From the West Indies. Varieties are from Belieze, bay of Hon- 

 duras. 



Marginella similis. Marg. testd ovali, stramined, griseo-nebulatd, 

 lineis creberrimis interruptim cinctd ; spird pene celatd ; aper- 

 turd angustd, antice et postice emarginatd; columella spird 

 tumidd, antice varicosd, irregulariter septemplicatd ; labio externo 

 postice spiram paulvMm super ante, intus crenulato, extus nigro 

 maculato vix marginato. 



The spire is less concealed, and the margin of reflected lip less 

 distinct than in M. interrupta. The colouring is more mottled. 



In Mr. Cuming's collection. From the Brazils. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



August 4th, 1845.— The Rev. F. W. Hope, F.R.S., President, in 



the Chair. 



Mr. Raddon brought for distribution a number of specimens of 

 the rare Actebia preccox, and exhibited Goliathus Drurii and torqua- 

 tus, Mecynorhina frontalis, Petrognatha gigas and other rare insects 

 from the Gold Coast. 



Mr. Douglas exhibited Adactylus Bennetiii and other Lepidoptera, 

 from St. Osyth in Essex. Also illustrations of the transformations 

 of Tortrix Galiana, which feeds, in the larva state, on the worm- 

 wood, and its parasitic Ichneumon. 



Mr. Samuel Stevens exhibited a variety of insects recently cap- 

 tured at Arundel, including specimens of Claviger foveolatus, ob- 

 tained from the nests of two different species of ants. 



Mr. Edward Doubleday exhibited drawings of several species of 

 Papilio, including P. Hippodamas, Bdv., P. Polyeuctes, Doubled., 

 and a new species allied to P. Payeni, from the Himalayan Mount- 

 ains. He also described a complicated apparatus for capturing and 

 killing minute Lepidoptera, invented by Herr Reissig. 



The following memoirs were read : — 



" The Completion of the Biography of Fabricius," translated from 

 the Danish by the Rev. F. W. Hope, who announced his intention 

 of presenting the Society with impressions of a portrait of Fabri- 

 cius, to accompany the memoir in the Transactions. 



" Description of a new species of Grasshopper from New South 

 Wales." By W. F. Evans, Esq. 



Ephippitytha maculata, Evans. Wing-cases pale green, each with 

 sixteen to nineteen or twenty roundish spots of a bluish-black 

 colour running along the inner edge of the marginal or principal 

 nervure and the inner margin of the wing-case ; wings one-eighth 

 of an inch longer than the wing-cases, of a pale green colour, 

 becoming gradually of a lighter tint towards the outer margin, 



