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Bond brought for distribution amongst the members a number of specimens of Calli- 

 dium violaceum. Mr. Westwood exhibited a new species of (Estrus from India, and 

 a singular new genus of Mantidae ; and Mr. White various Cimicidae obtained in his 

 recent visit to Paris, as well as several new Scottish Curculionidae. A paper by the 

 Rev. F. W. Hope was read, containing descriptions of new Lucanidae and Lamellicorn 

 beetles, including a new genus of Glaphyridae from A ustralia, of a comparatively gi- 

 gantic size. A paper was also read by Mr. Westwood upon the genus Cryptodus of 

 MacLeay, in order to prove that it belonged to the Dynastidae (instead of being one of 

 the primary types of the Cetoniidas, as regarded by MacLeay), and upon a new genus 

 of Rutelidae, being the first instance of any insect of that family ascertained to be a 

 native of Asia. A note was also read from Mr. Tulk, relative to the habits of a toad 

 found in a hole, the opening to which was too small to allow it to escape, and which 

 fed upon Carabidse that went into the hole for concealment, the hard integument of 

 the insects scarcely undergoing any change in the stomach of the animal. This cir- 

 cumstance induced Professor Owen to suggest that an examination of various copro- 

 lites would probably bring to light the existence of many antediluvian insects of which 

 we have now no trace. — /. O. Westwood. 



79. Entomological Society, August 2, 1841. Donations of various publications 

 from the Zoological Society of London, the Royal Agricultural Society, Professor 

 Burmeister, M. Montagne, &c., were announced, as well as a fine collection of Egyp- 

 tian insects presented by Miss Hope. Mr. S. Stevens exhibited a number of speci- 

 mens of the new species of Micronyx recently discovered, together with numerous other 

 rare minute Coleoptera. Mr. Parry exhibited two large boxes of most splendid in- 

 sects of various orders from the Himalayas. Mr. Westwood mentioned the capture 

 by Mr. Melly, of three specimens of Carabus Schonherri on Ben Lomond. He also 

 exhibited a small portion of the collection of dissections made by Latreille, consisting 

 of several hundred illustrations presented to him by Mr. Melly, as well as Latreille's 

 specimens of the anomalous (supposed) Crustaceous genus Prosopistoma. Mr. White 

 exhibited a drawing of Echidnocerus cibarius, a new genus of Anomalous crabs from 

 the Colombia river, used by the natives for food ; also drawings of a species of ^ga 

 found on the cod on the shores of Newfoundland, the eggs of which are used by the 

 fisheiTnen as salve as well as for a bait. He also exhibited specimens of some very 

 minute bees, and portions of their cells, which had been imported into this country 

 with log-wood, and which had lived for two years in the neighbourhood of Southamp- 

 ton. The memoirs read consisted of a monograph on the Elaterideous genus Compso- 

 sternus, by the Rev. F. W. Hope : a notice of a hitherto unobserved character distin- 

 guishing the sexes in certain Lucanidae : and descriptions of some new genera of Dy- 

 nastidae, illustrating the natural relations of the genus Cryptodus ; both by J. O. 

 Westwood. — /. O. Westwood. 



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