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The Secretary read the commencement of a paper, entitted^ 

 Remarks on the Comparative Anatomy of certain Birds of Cuba^ 

 with a view to their respective places in the System of Nature^ or 

 to their relations with other animals', by W. S. MacLeay, Esq. 

 M.A. F.L.S. &c. 



November 28. — The Secretary read The description of a new 

 species ofBlediuSy Leach ; communicated to him by Mr* Westwood. 

 This insect, which was found on the sea shore in Norfolk, Mr. 

 Westwood proposed to call Bledius Stephensii. Its characters 

 are as follows : B. niger, nitidus, profunde punctatus, pedibus 

 rufo-piceis, elytris flavo-ferrugineis basi suturaque nigris, thorace 

 masculo cornu elongata, apice hirsuto, antice in medio armata, 

 capiteque ejusdem sexus cornubus duobus erectis elongatis.* 



The Rev. Mr. Kirby exhibited specimens of the Cremastocheilus 

 castaneusy Knoch, of a second species described by himself in the 

 Zoological Journal, and of a third hitherto unnoticed. He also 

 exhibited specimens of three species of a new genus of Rutelidce^ 

 to which he proposed to give the name of Cnemida ; and of a new 

 species of Trichius^ the T. Bigsbii. The whole of the above 

 Insects are natives of North America.t 



The Secretary read a continuation of Mr. MacLeay's paper on 

 the Birds of Cuba. 



December 12. — Mr. Yarrell exhibited several Sandpipers killed 

 in England, some of which were new as British species. Among 

 them was an immature specimen of the Kentish Plover^ Chara^ 

 drius Cantianus, Lath., obtained last autumn from the coast of 

 Norfolk. This bird was considered by Montagu, as the young of 

 the Ring'P lover, Ch. Hiaticula. To show that this opinion was- 

 erroneous, the specimen was contrasted by Mr. Yarrell with a 

 young Ring-Plover, of the same age. The various markings of 

 both were pointed out and compared. The whole length of the 

 Ring^Plover exceeded that of the Kentish Plover by one inch, 

 and from the point of the shoulder to the extreme end of the first 

 wing primary, by three-quarters of an inch. The differences in 

 form, as well as in the colour of the legs and toes of both, at 

 various ages, were also adverted to. The remark of M.Temminck, 



* See No. XI, p. 61. 



+ See the present Number, p. 145. 



