394 Zoological Society. 



is often a tolerably clear appearance of fascicles, and as frequently 

 only of the fillet-like bands, both are set down in the table annexed 

 to the author's paper as fibres : the larger size of the fascicles at 

 once distinguishes them from the bands, the primitive fibrils of the 

 muscular tissue being out of the question. In the snake and newt 

 the bands composed the tissue of the auricles, while a collection of 

 these bands into fascicles appeared and was measured in the ven- 

 tricles ; the measurements show many parallel instances, and one in 

 which the fascicles appeared in the auricle and the bands in the ven- 

 tricle. 



Mr. Gould exhibited to the Meeting an extensive collection of 

 Australian Halcyonidce, and characterized two new species belonging 

 to this family as follows : — 



Halcyon platyrostris. Hale, capite, dorsoque ex arugine viridi- 

 bus ; alls cauddque virescenti-c&ruleis ; guld pallide luteold, hoc 

 colore gradafim apud nucham et partes corporis inferiores in cer- 

 vinum, vel arenaceo-luteolum transeunte. 



Spot before the eye buff; head and back verditer green; wings 

 and tail greenish blue ; throat very pale buff, gradually passing into 

 the rich sandy buff of the back of the neck and the whole of the 

 under surface ; bill black ; the base of the under surface of the lower 

 mandible flesh-white. 



Total length, 7 \ inches ; bill, If ; wing, 3£ ; tail, 2 J ; tarsi, \. 



Hah. Navigators' Islands. 



For the knowledge of this new species Mr. Gould is indebted to 

 the kindness of Mr. Cunningham, who collected it, and to Mr. Ben- 

 nett, at Sydney, at whose suggestion Mr. Cunningham presented it, 

 with some other interesting birds, to Mr. Gould, for the advancement 

 of zoological science. 



Halcyon sordidus. Hale, capite, dor so, plumis scapularibus tec- 

 tricibusque alarum fuscescenti-virescentibus,alisvirescenti-cceruleis, 

 tertiariis ad apicem viridi-tinctis ; caudd virescenti-cceruled ; tor- 

 que collari, corporeque inferiore pallide luteolis. 



Hab. North coast of Australia. 



Head, back, scapularies and wing-coverts brownish oil-green; 

 wings greenish blue, gradually changing into green on the tips of 

 the tertiaries ; collar surrounding the back of the neck and all the 

 under surface buffy white ; tail greenish blue ; upper mandible and 

 tip of the lower one black ; base of the latter flesh-white. 



Total length, 9 inches ; bill, 2 J ; wing, 4£ ; tail, 3 ; tarsi, f . 



From the collection of Benjamin Bynoe, Esq. 



June 28. — William Yarrell, Esq., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



A Monograph on the Coleopterous family Phyllophoridce, by the 

 Rev. F. W. Hope, was read. Following are the characters of the 

 new species and genera contained in this paper. 



Family Phylloprorid.e, Hope. 



Genus Phyllophorus , Hope. 



Foemina antennis filiformibus 11-articulatis, articulo l m0 magno, ex- 



