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and places it with the Endomychidae. The entire number of species 

 now constituting the family is forty-five. The new species are Paus- 

 sus fulvus from India, in Mr. Westwood's collection ; Paus. cognatus 

 and Paus. tibialis, from Bengal, in Westermann's cabinet; Paus. 

 Saundersii from India, in Mr. Saunders' collection. The new genus 

 is Ceratoderus, founded on the Paussus bifasciatus of Kollar. June 

 15. Mr. Westwood added a descri^Jtion of Paus. Stevensianus, a new 

 species fi-om the East Indies, in the cabinet of Mr. Stevens. — E. 

 Newman. 



35. Entomological Society, 7th June, 1841. — The Marquis de Breme 

 was elected a foreign member of the Society. Mr. Marshall exhibited 

 part of a honey-comb entirely destroyed by the larvae of Achroia al- 

 vearia, and noticed the peculiarity of the cocoon, although formed of 

 white silk, being encased in a layer of black excrement, which it was 

 difficult to account for; he also noticed the excessive vibratile action 

 of the antennae of the moth. Mr. S. Stevens exhibited a small collec- 

 tion of Indian insects, including three species of Paussidae, one of 

 which was new : likewise living specimens of several rare English 

 insects — Leptura scutellata, Calosoma inquisitor, Elater ephippium 

 &c. : he also brought a number of living specimens of Trichius nobi- 

 lis for distribution among the members. Mr. Hope exhibited a num- 

 ber of splendid exotic Coleoptera, obtained by him during his late 

 visit to Paris ; likewise a fossil, presumed by its discoverer to be the 

 wing of a butterfly, but which appeared to be part of a fossil fern, of 

 the genus Holopteris. Mr. White exhibited some curious cocoons 

 from Honduras, which he believed to be either those of a Coleopter- 

 ous or Cimbicideous insect ; one end was furnished with a trap-door 

 of beautiful construction. He also exhibited a drawing of a fine but- 

 terfly in the collection of the British Museum, to which, if new, he in- 

 tended to apply the specific name of Papilio Iswara. The completion 

 of a monograph on the Panorpidas by the secretary, was read. The 

 president announced that the future meetings of the Society would be 

 held in other and more commodious apartments, in the house in Old 

 Bond Street. — /. O. Westwood. 



JOHN VAN VOORST, ^\ WHm^-*^:-^' I5 PATERNOSTER ROW. 



