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Drawings of two Indian species of Locusts, made in that countr}^ 

 by Lieut. Edwards, M.E.S., were exhibited, and a memoir read by 

 the Rev. F. W. Hope on the Asiatic species of that family, and by 

 whom a large collection of nearly allied species from various localities 

 was exhibited. 



The species which for two successive years had ravaged India 

 from one end to the other is regarded by Mr. Hope as undescribed, 

 and of which he gives the following character ; — 



CEdipoda Edwardsii, Hope. Fusca, capite thorace pectore pedibuS' 

 que ruhescentibus, elytris dilute fuscis, brunneo-maculatis, den- 

 tibus rubris. — Long. corp. unc. 2, lin. 4. Long. tegm. singuli, 

 unc. 2, lin. 6. 



A paper by Mr. Westwood, containing the description of a new 

 genus of exotic Cimicidce, was read. 



Stenotoma, Westw. Genus novum inter Coreidas locand um. 

 Caput lobo antico porrecto bispinoso ; lateribus ante oculos bispi- 

 nosis. Ocelli 2. Antenncs articulo 2ndo clavato, Stio ovali lata, 

 4to ovali oblongo, prcecedenti minori. Prothorax lateribus acutt 

 spinosis. 



Stenotoma Desjardinsii, W. Lutea, fulvo parum variegata undique 

 fusco punctata ; antennis fuscis, abdominis lateribus fusco et 

 albido alternatim maculatis. Long. corp. lin. 3. — Hab. in Insult 

 Mauritii. D. Desjardins. Mus. nostr. 



December 2. — G. Newport, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Desvignes exhibited a specimen of Coccinella lineata, Fab., 

 now ascertained to be an extremely rare variety of C. ocellata. 



Mr. Pelerin exhibited specimens of the New Zealand caterpillar 

 and its parasitic Clavaria, already figured and described in the Trans- 

 actions of the Society. 



Mr. Milton exhibited numerous specimens of Dipterous larvae, evi- 

 dently those of a moderate-sized Tipula, 852 individuals of which he 

 had extracted, mostly alive, from the crop of a pheasant recently killed. 

 '-' Mr. Evans exhibited a numerous collection of New Holland insects, 

 several being of new and interesting species. 



Mr. Westwood exhibited the case formed by the larva of Porrec- 

 taria vibicipenella (a species new to this country, discovered by Mr. 

 Weaver in Worcestershire during the past season), and which he 

 had received from the senator Van Heyden of Frankfort. Mr. Msir- 

 shall stated that he had also obtained the cases of this species from 

 . Mr. Weaver, by whom the insect had been reared from the cater- 

 pillar state. 



Mr. Westwood also exhibited a new genus of Carabidce from Gui- 

 nea, allied to the genus Morio, received from M. Westermann : also 

 drawings of an allied new genus from Ceylon, in the collection of 

 Mr. Melly, and of various other new genera of Coleoptera. 



Mr. F. Bond exhibited a specimen of the caterpillar of Bombyx 

 potatoria, entirely covered with a white fungus very similar to mus- 

 cardine. 



