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Mr. Cuming in the cabinet of the British Museum. The base of the 

 scutellum is roughly punctured, as in the preceding species, with 

 which it closely agrees in many other characters ; still there is a great 

 and apparently constant difference in the colour, and I find no inter- 

 mediate shades ; the spots on the elytra are more numerous, distinct, 

 and conspicuous. 



Ceto. querula. Nigro-senea, nitida, maculis nonnullis lanuginosis 

 incertis albidis : elytra prave striata : striis 5 abbreviatis props 

 suturam sitis. (Corp. long. '5 unc. lat. '3 unc.) 



Inhabits the Philippine Islands. A specimen captured by Mr. 

 Cuming is in the cabinet of the Entomological Club. This insect is 

 about the size of the well-known Europa^an species, Cetonia sticti- 

 ca ; its colour is very dark, but occasionally relieved, especially on 

 the sides of the prothorax, the legs, &c., with a metallic splendour : 

 the elytra have the elevated longitudinal ridge so general among the 

 Cetoniae, and in the depressed space between this and the suture are 

 five abbreviated stria?, a single one and two pairs ; the elytra, more- 

 over, are nearly covered with coarse but shallow punctures. 



Edward Newman. 



Art. XL. — Varieties by Various Contributors. 



43. (Estrus cuniculi, called in Savannah the rahhit-Jly. A bare or rabbit of tbis 

 country being catcbed, I observed creeping out of tbe skin a wonn ; being full fed it 

 went into tbe ground 2ud August. Tbey feed between tbe skin and flesb, seldom more 

 tban two at one time in a rabbit ; it changed into a cbrysalis, out of wbicb came the 

 fly on the 13th September, by pushing out a kind of door. The skin of the chiysalis 

 is thick and as hard as wood. The fly, when it came out, had a kind of bladder to its 

 mouth. This species is rare in tbe fly state. AhboVs MSS. 



44. Hipparchia Cassiope. I took a few specimens of this insect on the 23rd of 

 June, near the edge of Stye-head Tarn, between Borrowdale and Wastdale, in Cum- 

 berland. The day being generally cloudy, I only saw them on the wing during a tem- 

 porary gleam of sunshine. — R. Botvman Labrey ; 20, Market Place, Manchester, I7th 

 July, 1841. 



45. Carabus glabraius. This insect occurred plentifully at the same time and place 

 as the preceding ; also upon Hard Knott and Wryneck, between Eskdale and Lang- 

 dale. — Id. 



46. Oxystoma Ulicis. On the 1st of August, 1840, when at the Addington Hills, 

 near Croydon, after watching the ripe pods of the common furze bursting in the hot 

 sun-shine, I gathered a number of the unopened pods, and found several perfect indi- 

 duals of a small weevil (Oxystoma Ulicis) inclosed in nearly every one that I examin- 

 ed. — Geo. Luxford ; Ratclijf Hiyhimy, July 18, 1841. 



