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latus, dentibus miniitis, acutis : elytra oTjscura, aspera, vix puncta : femora 

 tibiffique corapressa, manifesto denticulata, dentibus minutis, acutis. (Corp. 

 long. 1"7 unc. lat. '45 unc.) 

 28. Macrotoma absurdum. Fern. Nigro-fuscum, aut potius piceum ; antennae cor- 

 pore longiores : prothoracis discus punctus, punctis numerosis minutis, spatiis 

 4 incertis elevatis glabris, punctis perpaucis magnis variatus, lateribus denti- 

 culatus : elytra obsolete 4-striata, puncta, punctis crebris manifestis conflu- 

 entibus : femora et tibiae vix manifesto denticulata. (Corp. long. 1*2 unc. 

 lat. '4 unc.) 



Edward Newman. 



[Numero sequente continuatio.) 



Art. LXIII. — Varieties. 



142. Erratum. I have put Pyropbila tetra for Ampbipyra pyramidea, (Entomol, 

 158), and as I find tbe error has misled several persons, please to insert this correction. 

 — /. W. Douglas ; Cohurg Road, Kent Road, December 6, 1841. 



143. Entomological Society, December 6, 1841. W. W. Saunders, Esq., F.L.S., 

 President, in the chair. Mr. S. Stevens exhibited living specimens of Notaris Serpi, 

 a Curculionideous insect, new to the native list, and which he had found in the interior 

 of bull-rushes at Hampstead : in the same situation he had also found great numbers 

 of a minute Muscidse, and various species of Chrysomelidae : he also exhibited a new 

 species of Omias, from Ascham Bryant, Yorkshire. Captain Parry exhibited a case 

 of Coleopterous insects from New Zealand, some of great interest, upon which the 

 Rev. F. W. Hope made various observations : also a case of splendid Lepidoptera 

 from the Himalayas. Mr. Westwood exhibited the Coleopterous portion of an exten- 

 sive collection of insects, found in Mexico, by E. P. Coffen, Esq., amongst which 

 were some very interesting and novel species of Longicorn beetles : he also exhibited 

 two boxes of insects from tropical Africa, from the collection of Mr. Raddon. Mr. 

 Gould exhibited a singular British wasp-nest, which had been formed by Vespa hol- 

 satica in a glass case placed on the top of a steam boiler, a tube having been intro- 

 duced into the mouth of the original nest in a bank through which the wasps were 

 forced to pass. A note from Mr. Elliott, by whom this nest had been obtained, was 

 also read. Mr. H. Cuming presented a singular cocoon from the Manillas, having 

 quite the appearance of being foiined of molten gold wire. A memoir was read by 

 G. R. Waterhouse, Esq., containing descriptions of two new genera of Curculionidae, 

 from the collection of Mr. C. Darwin : and Mr. Westwood read a notice of a hitherto 

 unnoticed character distinguishing the sexes in certain Cetoniids ; likewise the descrip- 

 tion of a new species of Parastasia of large size, from Sylhet, in the East Indies. — 

 J. O. W. 



JOHN VAN VOORST, VPX ^IHk^^tr/ PATERNOSTER ROW. 



