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I never saw them at any other spot." Mr. Clark stated that 

 the insect approached most nearly to Machronychus (Miiller, 

 Illig. Ma\y.), a genus of Elinidte, but differed therefrom hi the 

 form of the head, the number of joints of the anteniue, &c. ; 

 its strong and broad claws and elongated robust legs would 

 serve admirably to secure the beetle to the face of a rock, 

 but it was not very evident how its legs were adapted for 

 swimming. 



The Rev. Hamlet Clark read extracts from a letter recently 

 received from Mr. Edwyn Reed from Bahia ; want of know- 

 ledge of the language had prevented Mr. Reed from going 

 up the country as soon as he had desired ; he was proposing 

 to spend May in Valenga, and about June to proceed into 

 the interior to the residence of a hospitable timber-merchant 

 on the borders of the primaeval forest. His first collection of 

 objects of Natural History might very shortly be expected in 

 London. 



INIr. Jan son read a letter from Mr. J. A. Brewer, dated 

 Faval, April 24, 18G5, reporting the capture of about 150 

 species of Coleoptera at St. Michael's, by working as in Eng- 

 land in winter; there were no insects moving about, it being 

 still (though very warm) the winter of the Azores ; many of 

 those capiured were apparently well-known British species, 

 whilst others were unknown to the writer ; the majority con- 

 sisted of Carabida; and Staphylinidse, with some Curculio- 

 nidae and a few Elateridae. 



Mr. F. Smith exhibited a specimen of Apate capucinus, 

 taken by his son Mr. Edgar Smith, in Bishop's Wood, on the 

 28lh of April last, running over fallen timber (oak). 



Mr. Bond exhibited a specimen of Dianthoecia albimacula, 

 taken on the 8th of June, 1864, near Gosport. 



Mr. Bond also exhibited a Saturnia Polyphemus and its 

 cocoon, and a large Ophion which had emerged from the 

 same cocoon. 



Mr. Slainton exhibited some galls on the leaves of an 

 evergreen oak (probably Quercus Ilex), brought by Mr. Bur- 

 ney from Mentone. 



Prof. Weslwood mentioned that in the Burchell Collection, 

 recently added to the Oxford Museum, were specimens of 

 larvse preserved in a dry slate by a means capable of easy 

 adoption ; the larvae were simply placed under heavy weights, 



