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number of very small, dead young spiders. TI18 assumed parent escaped when the 

 nest was taken, according to the account given to Mr. Weir by the fiiider, who 

 obtained it at the Cape of Good Hope. 



Mr. TVeir also exhibited a smaller spider's-nest, from Montserrat, made into a 

 bag and bound with ribbon round one open end, being so made up by the ladies of 

 the country, the toughness of the silky material admitting of this use of the nests. 



Mr. F. Grut exhibited a living Chelifer, found in crevices of rock in the North 

 of Spain ; it was of large size and of an undetermined species. 



Sir S. S. Saunders exhibited an example of the spider Atypiis Snlzeri, taken at 

 Hampstead, in its peculiar, silky tubular nest, which projected four inches above the 

 ground and extended ten inches below the sui'face. 



Mr. Champion exhibited an example of the fine elateroid beetle Alaus Parreysi, 

 which was found iu a rotten fir stump at the Island of Thaso in the Mediterranean, 

 by Mr. J. J. Walker, of H.M.S. " Swiftsure." 



Mr. C. O. Waterhouse exhibited an example of Dohrnia miranda, Newm., from 

 Tasmania, a beetle so rare that this was the only one he had seen. He also exhibited 

 a species of StaphylinidcB and a Forjicula, both from Tasmania, which had a mimetic 

 resemblance to each other ; but in the absence of information of their respective 

 habits he could say nothing of the purpose the resemblance might serve. 



Sir S. S. Saunders communicated a paper " On the adult larvffiof Sfylopidce and 

 their puparia ;" and Mr. H. W. Bates read a memoir " On Ceratorhina quadrima- 

 cidata, Fab., with descriptions of two new allied species;" the latter paper 

 illustrated by an exhibition of all the insects mentioned, furnished by Mr. F. J. 

 Ilorniraan to Mr. Bates. 



The Chairman took the opportunity of recommending to Members who read 

 papers at the meetings, to exhibit at the same time the insects described, as adding 

 gi'eatly to the interest of the subject brought forward. 



DESCEIPTIONS of NEW COLEOPTERA from YARIOUS LOCALITIFS. 



BT CHAS. O. WATEEnOUSE. 



The species here described are chiefly from Australia. Mr. E. D. 

 Atkinson, of Tasmania, has recently sent to the British Museum a 

 series of insects, and among them I have detected two or three of the 

 new species. This collection also contained specimens of Dohrnia 

 mirnnda of Newman, an insect which, I believe, has scarcely ever been 

 seen except by the describer. 



GEODEPHAGA. 



Damaster FoRTUis'Ei, Adains. 

 A beautiful variety of this species has just been received from 

 N. Jnpan. It differs from the ordinary form in having the head and 

 thorax bright coppery, and the elytra dull olive-grccn. The head is 

 not narrowed behind the eyes ; the transverse ruga) of the thorax arc 

 very distinct ; the elytra are unusually constricted below the shoulders, 

 distinctly but not very much produced at the apex, and the surface, 

 besides the usual larger and smaller granulations, is distinctly punc- 

 tured. Length, 19 lin. 



