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l)y A. B. Lam1)ert, Esq., and a pair of HyleccEtus dermestoides hy Mr. Trueman. 

 Mr. Westwood exhibited two boxes of beautiful insects, belonging to Mr. Raddon, 

 from the Gold Coast, Africa, and Port Philip, Australia, including a new species of 

 Goliath beetle, Eudicella ignita, &c. Likewise a singular New Australian genus of 

 large size, allied to Cicada, from the collection of Mr. Curtis, by whom it was proposed 

 to be Ucaraed Cystosoma Saundersii. Also a large domestic spider, to the extremity of 

 the cephalothorax of which was still attached the exuvium of the dorsum of the for- 

 mer cephalothorax, which the insect had not the power to throw off, although it had 

 remained alive in Mr. Westwood's possession some time. He also exhibited drawings 

 of a new subgenus of Cicindelidce, from the Mauritius, remarkable for the singular 

 character of the clothing of the cushions of the fore feet ; and read some additional 

 notes and descriptions of new species of the genera Cryptodas, Maschidius and Pa- 

 rastasia. Mr. Thrupp communicated some notes on the habits of the larvee of certain 

 Noctuse which feed upon their own species when kept in confinement, and Mr. Walton 

 mentioned that the new species of Apion,with singular antennse and fore feet, recently 

 captured by Mr. S. Stevens, was the Apion dissimile of Germar. — ./. O. W. 



141. Entomolociical Society, Novemher \, 1841. W. W. Saunders, Esq., F.L.S., 

 President, in the chair. Amongst the donations was a large collection of Indian in- 

 sects, chiefly Coleoptera, presented by W. McClelland, Esq. The Rev. F. W. Hope 

 exhibited a fossil which he had received from Dr. Stevenson, found near Wellington, 

 Shropshire, in a nodule of ironstone, having the appearance of the larva of a Saturnia, 

 a row of tubercles being placed on each side of the dorsal canal, the sides of the body 

 were also furnished with a row of slender, elongated, cylindrical, furcated appendages. 

 Mr. Evans presented a drawing of the larva of Zeuzera .Hsculi, which had proved 

 very destructive to young fruit-trees in his garden. Mr. Westwood exhibited a col- 

 lection of Hymenoptera, Orthoptera, Diptera and Heraiptera from Mexico, forming a 

 portion of a very extensive collection made by E. P. Cofiin, Esq., during his residence 

 there. Amongst the Hymenoptera were several new and singular genera, especially 

 amongst the Ichneumonids and Apidse. Mr. E. Doubleday exhibited portions of his 

 collection of North American Lepidoptera, including a singular specimen of Saturnia 

 Promethea, having the antennas and body of a male and the wings and colours of a 

 female ; he also brought for distribution among the members a large number of North 

 American Coleoptera. Dr. Becker of Wiesbaden exhibited portions of his collection 

 of European Lepidoptera, showing the German method of preserving the insects of 

 that order. A memoir by the Rev. F. W. Hope was read, on the Entomo-geography 

 of Port Essington, on the northern coast of New Holland, with descriptions of nu- 

 merous new species of Coleoptera from that colony. Mr. W. W. Saunders read the 

 descriptions of two new Indian species of Cremastocheilus ; and Mr. Westwood de- 

 scriptions of the Australian species belonging to the family of sacred beetles. — J.O. W. 



JOHN VAN VOORST, \^\ ■^^R*-^^'^/ PATERNOSTER ROW. 



