6*8 Entomological Society. 



deeply punctured ; elytra irregularly punctured. Length *17 

 inch. — Hab. Van Diemen's Land. Mus. Westwood. 

 Helodimorpha viridis, Hope MSS. Antenna; nearly as long as 

 the body, brilliant metallic green ; antenna; black, 2nd, 3rd and 

 ^th joints dull rufous ; thorax coarsely punctured and subca- 

 rinated behind in the middle ; elytra closely and irregularly 

 punctured ; tips of posterior tibia; and tarsi dull brown. Length 

 *1 1 inch. — Hab. New Holland. Mus. Hope and Westwood. 



" Description of a new British species of lulus'' By George New- 

 port, Esq. 



lulus Sandvicensis, Newport. Rather larger and thicker than I. 

 terrestris ; face very convex and polished ; antenna scarcely longer 

 than the head, clavate ; 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th joints subequal, 6th 

 shorter, infundibuliform ; segments of body 52, posterior half of 

 each polished ; anal valves very large ; pre-anal scale short, tri- 

 gonate. Found near Sandwich in Kent. 



" Note on the occurrence of two species of Entozoa in the large 

 veins of the liver of the human subject." By W. J. Pettigrew, Esq. 



" Description of a new genus of Lamellicorn Beetles allied to Pa- 

 chypus." By J. O. Westwood, F.L.S. 



Metascelis, Westw. Corpus apterum. Elytris apice dehiscentibus, 

 podice detecto. Clypeus os omnino obtegens. Antenna breves, 9-arti- 

 culatce, articulo 4 to brevi interne producto, 5 et 6 lamelliformibus , 

 7, 8, 9que paullo longioribus. Maxillae lobis apicalibus obsoletis. 

 Prothorax lateribus rotundatis. Pedes 2 postici breviores cras- 

 sissimi. 



Metascelis flexilis, W. M. fusca, nitida ; capite et podice magis 

 castanets, illo punctato ; prothorace et elytris lavibus ; infrcl cum 



pedibus lutea, luteoque pilosa. Long. corp. lin. 7. — Hab. ? 



Mus. Soc. Linn. Lond. 



"Notes on the habits of Nyssia zonaria" By Mr. Gregson. ' 



This newly-discovered moth occurs in the winged state in the first 

 week in March. The pupae are buried about an inch and a half 

 deep in the sand, at New Brighton in Cheshire, in a valley among 

 the sand-hills near the hotel, and have never been noticed at any 

 other place except about three miles further down the sand-hills, on 

 the level land adjoining cultivated ground near Leasow Castle, where 

 Mr. Gregson found them at the end of June and beginning of July 

 during several successive years. The spring brood are never seen on 

 the wing ; but the summer brood take wing in fine sunshine, darting 

 about like the gamma moth. The former brood are observed fanning 

 their wings on the long grass on the sand-hills ; but should the wind 

 be cold they creep to the warm side of the tufts of grass, and are 

 very difficult to find. 



" Notes on the parasitic habits of the Nomada, and on the habits 

 of other insects." By Mr. F. Smith. 



In this paper Mr. Smith details the plans which he has adopted 

 in order to observe the habits of the long-horned bee, Eucera longi- 

 cornis, and its parasite, Nomada S chaffer ella, (the male of which 



