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The Vice-President appointed Mr. Bentham and Mr. Yarrell to be 

 Scrutators, and the ballot being closed and the votes being counted, 

 the Scrutators reported the election to have fallen on Mr. Kippist, 

 vpho was thereupon declared to be duly elected. 



March 1. 

 T. Horsfield, M.D., V.P., in the Chair. 



The Secretary reported, that since the last meeting the Society had 

 received from W. Borrer, Esq., F.R.S., F.L.S., &c., the present of a 

 valuable Herbarium of Foreign Flowering Plants. 



George Gardner, Esq., was elected a FeUow. 



Read a paper " On some rare and beautiful Coleopterous Insects 

 from Silhet, the major part belonging to the collection of Frederic 

 Parry, Esq., of Cheltenham." By the Rev. F. W. Hope, F.R.S., 

 F.L.S., &c. 



The number of species described amounts to fourteen, one of 

 which is regarded by Mr. Hope as forming the type of a new genus. 

 The following are the generic and specific characters : — 



LuCANIDiE. 



Hexarthrius Parryi, niger, mandibulis exsertis subdenticulatis bidentatis, 



capite thoraceque scabriusculis, elytris postice castaneis. Long. lin. 36 ; 



lat. lin. 10. 

 Odontolabis Cuvera, ater, mandibulis valde exsertis denticuiatis, elytris 



pallide castaneis littera V nigra signatis. Long, (mandibulis inclusis) 



lin. 34; lat. lin. 11. 

 Odontolabis Baladena, niger, mandibulis porrectis multidentatis, capite 



thoraceque unidentatis. Long. lin. 26 ; lat. 10. 

 Dorcas Westermanni, niger, mandibulis porrectis multidentatis capite 



thoraceque pariam brevioribus. Long. hn. 26i ; lat. lin. 9. 

 Dorcas DeHaani, niger, mandibulis porrectis capite parum longioribus : 



dente forti fere trigono ante basin posito : reliquis minoribus. Long. 



Hn. 22 ; lat. lin. 7^. 

 Hab. in agro Assamensi. Mus. D. Hope. 

 Lucanus Brahminus, niger, mandibulis valde exsertis denticuiatis capiti 



thoracique sequalibus, thorace postice utrinque dentato, elytris glabris 



marginatis. Long. lin. 24i ; lat. lin. 6^. 

 Lucanus Buddha, niger nitidus, mandibulis valde porrectis capite thora- 

 ceque longioribus denticuiatis. Long. lin. 21 ; lat. lin. 6. 



