ftQ [March, 



The followinp: paper was read :—" Staph ylinidao from Siiifrapore," by 

 jNIalcolra Cameron, M.B., R.N. Dr. Long-staff inquired whether anytliini^ 

 could be added to Dr. Gahan's letters in the "Times" on the larva of the 

 Ilouse-fly, and Dr. Gahan said that in captivity they had been seen to enter 

 the shells of snails when closed for the winter, and had devoured the snails. 



Wcd7iesdai/, Jmiunry '2\st, 1920. — The President in the Chair. 



Atinual Mectinfi. — The Kev. George Wheeler, one of the Secretaries, rend 

 the Report ot the Council, which was adopted on the motion of Dr. Hugh 

 Scott, seconded by Mr. H. J. Turner, and the Treasurer then read the 

 Financial Report and the Balance Sheet, which were adopted on the motion of 

 Mr. E. E. Green, seconded by Mr. Stanley Edwards. No other names having 

 been received in addition to those proposed by the Council as OlRcers and 

 Council for the ensuing year, the latter were declared by the President to be 

 duly elected. The President also read a letter from Lady Walsingliam 

 expressing her thanks for the letter of condolence voted by tlie Society. He 

 then read an Address, after Avhich a vote of thanks to him was passed on tlie 

 motion of Mr. Harold Ilodge seconded by Lord Rothschild, to which he 

 replied. A vote of thanks to the Ofhcers was then proposed by Prof. Selwyn 

 Image, and seconded by Mr. W. J. Kaye, to which tke Treasurer and the two 

 Secretaries replied.— Geo. Wheeler, Hon. Secretary. 



SOME INDIAN COLEOPTEEA (2). 



BY G. C. CHAMPION, F.Z.S. 



\_Continued from Vol. LV, p. 246.] 



This paper contains descriptions of a few more beetles captured l>y 

 one or the other of my two sons in India, supplemented hy a second 

 species of Ennrhoeiis detected in the British Museum. The genera marked 

 with an asterisk are additions to the Indian fauna. Fairmaire, in 1S91, 

 in his second paper on the Coleoptera of tlie mountains of Kashmir, 

 noted the occurrence of several well-known European forms on the 

 Gourais Pass, altitude 7000 feet, and to these can be added the Stai)hy- 

 linid Pseudopsis sulcata Newm., a specimen of which has been sent me 

 from W. Almora. 



Species enumerated in tlie present contrihntion. 



Htdrophilidae. Melandryidae. 



*Hydraena cirnda, n. sp. Osjihtja nigriventris. n. sp. 



„ hUwm<da, n. sp, 



mcicidkollis, n. sp. Okdemeridae. 



Chrysanthia himalaica, n. sp. 

 Melybidae. ^^ rugicollis, n. sp. 



Eidobonyx sericeus, n. sp. „ valens, n. sp. 



„ exasperatus, n. sp. 



Mordellidae. 

 Tenebbionidae. *Pentaria ddoroptera, n. sp. 



*Ennehoevs sjnnifer, n. sp. „ Iciitndonensis. n. sp. 



„ inalaharkus, n. sp, ,, platycnemu, n. sp. 



