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New Holland. 6. Pison S/ inohv is 7h lines in length : it is 

 black with a cinereous pubescence ; the wings are slate- 

 coloured ; the second submarginal cell is very small ; the meta- 

 thorax is obliquely striated : it inhabits New South Wales. 



7. Pison punctifrons is 5h lines in length ; it is black, and 

 covered with an asli-coloured pubescence ; the forehead and 

 prothorax (tJiorace anteriore) thickly punctured ; the wings are 

 hyaline, with the margins darker: inhabits India or St. Helena. 



8. Pison Westicoodli is ol lines in length ; it is black, shining, 

 and slightly punctate ; the fore part of the head is clothed with 

 a silvery pilosity ; the wings are hyaline and slightly clouded 

 towards the margins ; the metathorax is obliquely striated and 

 indistinctly keeled: it inhabits Van Dieman's Land. 9. Pison 

 auratus is 6 lines in length ; it is black, slightly punctate, and 

 covered with a golden pubescence ; the whole of the first and 

 last segments of the abdomen, and the margins of the remainder, 

 as well as the legs, are rufo-testaceous : it is supposed to inha- 

 bit the Cape of Good Hope, 10. Pison rttfipes is o\ lines in 

 length ; it is black ; the base of the mandibles, the palpi, and 

 the feet are red ; the tegulte are testaceous ; the metathorax is 

 obliquely striated : it inhabits Van Dieman's Land. IL Pison 

 argentatus of Shuckard is 3 lines in length; it is black, and 

 covered w^ith a silvery pubescence : metathorax obliquely 

 striated, strias distant, the interstices punctured : the wings 

 hyaline, the tegulse testaceous : it inhabits the Mauritius. 

 12. Gori/tes Brasiliensis is 5\ lines in length, it is black and 

 shining ; the abdomen has three yellow fasciae : it inhabits 

 Brazil. 13. Paragia decipiens of Shuckard has precisely the 

 habit of a Vespa, but differs in having ovate and not reniform 

 eyes, and in the possession of two sub-marginal cells : the 

 specific character is, black, obscure, the abdomen of a dull 

 ochraceous colour : it is 9 lines in length, and 14 in the expan- 

 sion of its wings: it inhabits New South Wales. 



The remainder of the Number is occupied with a Report of 

 the Proceedings of the Society from February 1, 183G, to 

 February 5, 1837; for a report of these we refer the reader to 

 our own Numbers. Mr. Hope's valuable Coleopterist's Manual, 

 his descriptive List of Hemiptera, and Mr. Kirby's Fauna Boreali 

 Americana must be deferred to our next. 



