352 Royal Society of Edinburgh. 



" This and the foregoing species are described from a French work 

 now in the course of publication, by the Count de Castelneau." 



Sp. 25. Eu. TRiviTTATA, Pcrty. 



Long. lin. 5 ; Lat. lin. 2^. 



Suhths testaceo-metallica, thorace viridi, margine stridque medid 

 flavis, elytris testaceo-viridibus. 



Statura omnino E. Frischii, sed satis minor. Subtus testacea, metal- 

 lico-nitida, abdomine obscuriore. Caput aneum, subtilissime punc- 

 tulatum, clypeo reflexo. Thorax viridi- aneus, nitidus, margine 

 laterali lato, vittdque medid flavis. Scutellum viridi-cBneam, 

 politum. Elytra longitudinaliter punctulata, testaceo-viridia. 

 AntenncB brunnece. Pedes metallico-testacei. 



Hab. in Jav^. 



In Museo Dora. Perty. 



Sp. 26. Ku. SPLENDENS. Schouhcrr. 



Supra glabra, viridi-orichalcea, nitidissima, thorace elytrorumque 

 dor so subtiliter jMrce punctulatis , clypeo reflexo integerrimo. 



Hab, in China. 



In Museo Dom. Schonherr. 



" It is probable that the above species is a Mimela. It is con- 

 sidered by Professor Perty to be an Euchlora. I have added Schon- 

 herr's short Latin description ; for more ample details consult the 

 Appendix to Schonherr's * Synonymia Insectorura,' tom. i, part 3, 

 page 110." 



Besides the above twenty-six species of Euchlora, there are seve- 

 ral other insects which have been comprehended under that name ; 

 for instance, E. Dalmanni of Schonherr, and Chrysea of KoUar, both 

 of which are true Mimelce, and allied to M. fastiiosa. Fab. ; and 

 to these may be added various species of Anomala, recorded by Fa- 

 bricius, De Jean, and others. The latter writer, in his last catalogue 

 of 1837, mentions the names oi E. piligera, Japonica, chalcites : as 

 he, however, confounds Mimela with Euchlora, little reliance can be 

 placed on his authority ; they are, moreover, manuscript names, and 

 no names ought to be adopted without published descriptions, I 

 may add, that in the Dutch and other collections, about six others 

 have fallen under my notice, making in all about thirty species ; 

 which number no doubt will be considerably increased the more we 

 become acquainted with the Entomology of Oriental India. 



ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH. 



Dec. 16. — Sir Thomas M. Brisbane, Bart. President, in the Chair. 

 The first paper of the evening was an account of experiments on 

 the development and growth of Salmon, from the exclusion of the 

 ovum to the age of two years. By Mr. Shaw, Drumlanrig. This 

 communication formed the sequel of a former one read to the Society 

 in December 1837, and continued the account of Mr. Shaw's expe- 



