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Dr. Bromfield, F.L.S., presented a specimen of a species of Cala- 

 mintha found by him in the Isle of Wight and regarded as new. 



Mr. Newman exhibited a specimen of Trichomanes lately found in 

 the CO. Kerry, and supposed to be distinct from Tr. speciosum. 



Read a letter from Joshua Clarke, Esq., of SaiFron Waldon, ac- 

 companying specimens of Barkhausia sctosa, Dec, found in that 

 neighbourhood, with a note on the characters and distribution of the 

 species by Mr. Kippist, Libr. L.S. 



Read also the commencement of " An Analj'sis of Rhizanthea." 

 By Wm. Griifith, Esq., F.L.S., beine the first of a series of memoirs 

 on Root-Parasites and their allies. 



November 2 1 . 

 E. Forster, Esq., V.F., in the Chair. 

 David William Mitchell, Esq. was elected a Fellow. 



Read the conclusion of Mr. Griffith's " Analysis of Rhizanthece," 

 and his " Description of Sapria, a Himalayan genus related to Rqf- 

 flesia." 



December 5. 



E. Forster, Esq., V.P., in the Chair. 



Mr. Westwood, F.L.S., exhibited a box of CEstrideous insects re- 

 cently received from Professors Zetterstedt and Dahlbom, with the 

 view of determining the correctness of Mr. Bracy Clarke's conjecture 

 as to certain characters, which, in his memoir published in the last 

 Part of the ' Transactions' of this Society, he had regarded as sexual, 

 and as proving that the (Estrus Tarandi and (E. Ti'ompe are sexes of 

 the same species. Mr. Westwood stated that this collection con- 

 tained both sexes of each of these species, and that it would conse- 

 quently be necessary to reinstate these two species as well as several 



