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March Uh, 1903.— The President in the Chair. 



Mr. Harry Eltringham, of Eastgarth, Westoe, South Sliields, was elected a 

 Fellow. 



Colonel Bingham sent for exhibition specimfms of Diptera and two Aculeates 

 from Sikhim, showing in the banding of the wings and other characteristics a singu- 

 larly beautiful case of mimicry. The Rev. F. D. Morice drew attention to the way 

 in which the fly imitated with its tibia the tarsus of the bee. Mr. A. J. Chitty, 

 specimens of Atomaria rhenana, Kr., taken by him out of some flood rubbish found 

 near Lancing, probably the same locality where the beetle was discovered formerly 

 by Di". Sharp. He also exhibited a Ptiiius, apparently new to Britain, found in a 

 granary in Holborn in 1893, where it had been probably introduced. Mr. W. J. 

 Kaye, species of Lepldoptera from British Guiana, forming a Miillerian association 

 in which all but one were day-flying moths, the exception being an Erycinid butter- 

 fly, Esthemopsis sericina. The moths, belonging to three families, included 

 SyntomidcB, Affi/rta mici/ia, and Euagra coelestina ; Hypnidm, lostola divisa ; 

 GeoinetridcB (?), Pseudarbesaa decorata. 



Mr. C. O. Waterhouse read " Notes on the nests of Bees of the Genus Trigona ; " 

 Mr. G. A. Rothney communicated a paper on " The Aculeate Hymenoptera of 

 Barrackpore, Bengal," and " Descriptions of eighteen new species of Larridce and 

 Apida, from Barrackpore," by Peter Cameron ; and Colonel Charles Swinhoe com- 

 municated a paper " On the AtjanlidcB in the British Museum with descriptions of 

 some new species."— H. Rowland-Brown, Hon. Sec. 



SOME NEW COLEOPTERA FROM THE CHATHAM ISLANDS AND 

 NEW ZEALAND. 



BY D. SHARP, M.A., M.B., F R.S., &<;. 



The following descriptiaus are drawn from some specimens sent 

 me to name from the Bremen Museum fiir Natur-Kunde. 1 found 

 there were several new species of Cilibe among them, and as their 

 description involved a comparison with the forms of the genus found 

 on the mainland of New Zealand, I have described two or three 

 .species from there. They have been compared with Mr. Bates' types, 

 now in the British Museum, of this difficult genus. It is a great pity 

 that we do not know more of the Fauna of the Islands off New 

 Zealand. Prom an article in the last Vol. of the New Zealand Insti- 

 tute we must fear it is only too probable that the precinctive Fauna 

 and Flora are in process of rapid diminution if not of complete ex- 

 tirpation. Mr. Cockayne says, Tr. New Zealand Inst., xxxiv, p. 245, 

 "as I write, Mr. W. Jacobs sends me word that the previously 

 inaccessible forest lying under the precipitous cliffs of the South 

 Coast has been opened up to stock, and in consequence the last rem- 

 nant of the Chatham Island Forest will soon be a thing of the past." 



