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tribe of Rodentia to which these animals are referrible, and on the 

 genera which compose it. 



May 28. — At the request of the Chairman, Mr. Gould adverted 

 to a specimen of a Hornbill, now living at the Society's Gardens. 

 He regarded it as a very young individual of the concave Hornbill 

 of Dr. Latham, Buceros cavatus, and exhibited, in illustration of the 

 adult characters of the bird, specimens of it from the Society's Mu- 

 seum. 



A Paper was read " On the Characters of several New Genera 

 and Species of Coleopterous Insects, by the Rev. F. W. Hope." It 

 was accompanied by drawings of the objects represented, exhibit, 

 ing the generic characters in detail. The insects described were 

 the following; characters of which are given in the "Proceedings" 

 of the Society. 



Aploa (n.g. Carabidarum Truncati-pennium, Lebiae affine) pict a; 

 Calosoma Orientate; Chl^nius Sykesii; Oiceoptoma tetraspi- 

 lotum ; Languria Nepalensis (probably the type of a subgenus); 

 Opilus auripennis (may be regarded as the type of a subgenus); 

 Coptorhina (n. g. Copridi affine) Africana, and Klngii ; Ph.e- 

 nomeris (n. g. Anomalae affine) magnifica ; Macronata tetraspi- 

 lota j Ceton i a cretosa ; Luca n us Downesii, and ceratvs j Pholi- 

 dotus irroratus ; Anthicus cyaneus (the type of a subgenus, for 

 which Mr. Hope proposes the name of Anthelephila) .; Isacantha 

 (n. g. Curculionidarum Infracticornium) Rhinotioides ; Luprops 

 (n.g. Helopidarum) chrysophthalmus ; Lamia Roylii, and Crux 

 nigra -j Prionus Hayesii (Long. 4^r unc; lat. ad humeros, 12 lin. ; 

 elytrorum, 17. Hab. in Africa. This magnificent insect is not 

 surpassed in size by any Coleopterous species with which Mr. Hope 

 is acquainted), Cumingiu and Pertii (for this last Mr. Hope pro. 

 poses the generic name of Dissosternum) ; Ukacantha (n. g. Ste- 

 nocoro affine) triangularis,-, and Scolecobrotus (n.g. Uracanthae 

 affine) Westvooodii. 



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PROCEEDINGS OF THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE AD- 

 VANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AT THE RECENT. MEETING AT CAM- 

 BRIDGE. 



June 24. — A GREAT majority of the Members of the Association 

 ^-»- having arrived at Cambridge, together with several 

 hundred other gentlemen, — cultivators, amateurs, or well-wishers to 

 science, who were desirous of uniting themselves with it, the general 

 plan to be followed in the subsequent proceedings was this day arranged 

 and promulgated. It was substantially the same as that pursued at 

 Oxford last year, of which an account was given in our first volume, 

 p. 77. We shall therefore omit on the present occasion what would 

 be so nearly a repetition of the details then stated, and proceed at 

 once to enumerate the Provisional Committees of the Sections. 



