202 Linnean Society. [May 24, 



tulatus, antennis nigris, ely tris subcastaneis punctato-striatis, femorib us 

 basi rufis. Long. 2i lin. ; lat. l^. 



Fam. MORDELLID^. 



Mordella Tachyporiformis, nigra minute et crebre punctulata, supra pu be 



brevi brunne^ vestita. Long. 3 lin. ; lat. ultra 1 . 

 Mordella argentipunctata, sericeo-nigra, thoracis margine antico elytro- 



rumque basali maculis 4 aculeisque basalibus argenteo-albis. Long. 



fere 2 lin.; lat. |. 



Fam. Cantharid^. 

 Epicauta conspersa (Germ. ?), nigra pube cinere&, punctis nigris minutis 



sparsim conspersa. Long. 5 lin. ; lat. 2. 

 Tetraonyx l-guttatus, niger supra aurantiacus, capitis thoracisque ma- 

 cula elytrorum maculis 4 basalibus fasciaque postmediana irregulari 



nigris, femoribus basi rufis. Long. 5\ lin. ; lat. 2\. 

 Tetraonyx cinctus, nitide niger pubescens punctulatus, elytris subscabris 



sutuva margineque exteriore ochraceis. Long. 4 lin. ; lat. li. 



Fam. CEoEMERiDiE. 

 Nacerdes ? alternans, pallide ocbreus, oculis thoracis lined inconspicud ely- 



trorumque strigis 2 longis pallid^ fuscis. Long. 3f lin. ; lat. 1. 

 The paper was accompanied by drawings of many of the new 

 species. 



Anniversary Meeting. 

 May 24. 



The Lord Bishop of Norwich, President, in the Chair, 



The President opened the business of the Meeting, and the num- 

 ber of Members whom the Society had lost during the past year 

 having been stated, the Secretary proceeded to read the following 

 notices of some among them. 



The deaths among the Fellows have amounted to eight. Among 

 these the first name is that of 



William Allen, Esq., a gentleman more distinguished by his inves- 

 tigations in experimental philosophy than by the pursuit of natural 

 history, and still more by that active and unwearied benevolence 

 which has identified his name with almost every recent eiFort for the 

 amelioration of the condition of mankind. Of such a man we cannot 



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