188 [Januaiy, 



Apart from Entomology, there were Exhibitions in other Departments of 

 Natural History. Messrs. Danes and Cook : ornithology. Mr. Mackenzie : birds'- 

 eggs. Messrs. Step and Eowe : British land and fresh-water shells. Mr. Step : 

 illustrations of Surrey fungi. Mr. W. A. Pearce : herbarium of British and exotic 

 plants. Mr. A. E. Pearce : admirable water-colour studies of plants.— W. A. Peaece, 

 Hon. Secretary [abridged by Editoes]. 



Entomological Society of London, Dec. 2nd, 1885 : J. W. Dunning, Esq., 

 M.A., RL.S., Yice-President, in the Chair. 



Lieut.-Col. Blathwayt, of Batheaston, Bath, and S. P. Smith, Esq., of Danes 

 Inn, Strand, were elected Fellows. 



Mr. Enock exhibited photographs of Mymaridce, and drawings copied by the 

 "Auto-copyist," which gave satisfactory results. 



Mr. Eland Shaw exhibited the species of Copiophora, of which a drawing was 

 brought before the last meeting by the President, from an example taken in a 

 hot-house at Birmingham 



Mr. Porritt exhibited a melanic variety of Luperina testacea from Grlasgow, and 

 other melanic Noctuce, which he was unable to determine with certainty. Also an 

 Agrotis, probably A. ohelisca, taken at Southport. 



Mr. Dunning read an annotated List of all the Honorary Members elected into 

 the Society since its foundation. 



TEOPICAL AFRICAN COLEOFTERA; CHIEFLY FROM THE 

 ZANZIBAR MAINLAND. 



BY H. W. BATES, F.R.S., <tc. 



Fam. CICINDELID^. 



Megacephala Baxtebi, sp. n. Maxime elongata, viridi-oBnea, antennis 

 [articulis hasalibus fusco -annul atis), jpartihus oris {mandibulis apice nigris), 

 pedihusque Jiavo-testaceis, his fern or ib us intermediis apice foHicisque fere totis 

 fusco-nigris : thorace elongato lateribus ante basin utrinque dente valida 

 armatis : elytris versus suturam fusco-cupreis, undique sat dense acute tuber- 

 culatis, interstitiis sparsissime p)unctatis ; apice sub -a cute conjunctim rotun- 

 datis. Long., 34 mm.., S • 



Ugogo, East Central Africa (Dr. Baxter). 



A remarkably elongated species, the elytra being mucb more 

 elongated even than in M. exceha. In sculpture and colour it is allied 

 to 31. Mevoili (Lucas), from Somali-land, but differs from that species 

 effectively in the basal end of the sharp lateral margins of the thorax 

 forming a projecting triangular tooth. In this peculiar feature it 

 resembles J£ denticollis (Chaud.), from the Bahr Ghazal country; 

 the thorax, however, is much longer than in that species, the space 

 between the lateral tooth and the basal margin being especially much 

 greater. The tubercles of the elytra are rather close together, and 

 nearly equally spaced, and incumbent, sub-conical, even to the apex. 



