458 Entomological Society. 



Anaides fossulatus, W. A. nigro-fuscus, subnitidus,punctulatus, se- 

 tosus, antennarum clavd pallidiori, tibiis aniicis dentibus tribus 

 armatis. Long. corp. lin. 3^. [Hab. South America. Mus.Hope. 



Silphodes, W. (Gen. nov. ad fam. Geotrupidarum pertinens.) 

 Corpus ovatum, subconvexum, marginibus reflexis. Labrum porrec- 

 tum, breve, in medio emarginatum. Mandibular robusta, cornea, 

 margine externo valde rotundato, apice in dentibus duobus minutis 

 declivibus producto. Maxillce lobo externo magno, rotundato. 

 Mentum subquadratum, lateribus rotundatis. Pedes longi, graciles, 

 unguibus inaqualibus et irregularibus. 



Silphodes Sumatrensis, W. S. piceo-castaneus, capite latiori, 

 elytris striato-punctatis, margine longe-setoso. Long. corp. lin. 

 3^. [Hab. Sumatra. Sir S. Raffles. 



Silphodes Philippinensis, W. S. piceo-castaneus, capite thoraceque 

 magis rufescentibus, elytris irregulariter valde punctatis, strid 

 suturali alterisque 8 longitudinalibus {per paria dispositis) e 

 punctis confiuentibus formatis. Long. corp. lin. 4j-6. [Hab. 

 Philippine Isles. Mr. Cuming. 



Silphodes Gambiensis, W. S. castaneo-fuscus, prothoracis et 

 elytrorum marginibus suturdque rufescentibus ; elytris sub lente 

 tenuissime punctatis striisque tribus e punctis majoribus in singulo 

 elytro. Long. corp. lin. 6. [Hab. Gambia and Senegal. Mr. 

 Tebbs. Mus. Brit. 



October 4th. — W. W. Saunders, Esq., F.L.S., President, in the 



Chair. 



Mr. Westwood exhibited some beautiful insects from the Gold 

 Coast, Africa, and Port Philip, Australia, from the collection of Mr. 

 Raddon, including a new species of Goliathus (Eudicella ignita, W.), 

 some fine Cerambycidce, &c. Also a new and singular genus of large 

 size allied to Cicada, from New Holland, from the collection of Mr. 

 Curtis, and which that gentleman proposed to name Cystosoma 

 Saundersii. Also a common house- spider, to the hind extre- 

 mity of the cephalothorax of which remained attached the exuvium 

 of the dorsum of the former cephalothorax, although it had remained 

 alive in that state several days. He also exhibited a drawing of a 

 new modification of the pad-like cushion on the under- side of the 

 basal joints of the fore tarsi of a new species of Cicindelida, from the 

 Mauritius (constituting a new and distinct subgenus), in which the 

 whole of the under-side of the limb was thickly clothed with clavate 

 setae, visible to the naked eye. 



The following memoirs were read : — 



Notices of the cannibal habits of various caterpillars. By G. A. 

 Thrupp, Esq. 



Additional observations upon, and descriptions of new species 

 belonging to the genera Cryptodus, Mcechidius, and Par astasia. By 

 J. O. Westwood, the substance of which is incorporated in the abs- 

 tract of the proceedings of the meetings of July 5th, and September 

 6th, 1841. 



