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relative to the Entomology of South Australia : he also communicated 

 a memoir on the Coleoptera of China, with descriptions of numerous 

 new species sent home by Dr. Cantor from the Chinese expedition 

 to the Museum of the East India Company. A paper by the Presi- 

 dent was read, containing descriptions of some additional species of 

 Australian Chrysomehdae, allied to Ciyptocephalus. Mr. Westwood 

 exhibited specimens of Uropoda vegetans, which had been observed 

 by a correspondent by thousands on the surface of the ground in a 

 cucumber-frame, as well as upon the plants ; numbers of them had 

 also fixed themselves on a beetle which had been introduced into 

 the frame. He likewise read descriptions of some new genera belong- 

 ing to the family of the sacred beetles. A memoir on the genus Hy- 

 IsBus, with descriptions of several undesciibed British species, by Mr. 

 F. Smith ; and some notes by G. H. K. Thwaites, Esq. on the econo- 

 my of the same genus, were also read. — J. O. fV. 



167. Entomological Society, April 4, 1842. W. W. Saunders, Esq., 

 F.L.S., President, in the chair. Mr. Westwood exhibited three new 

 Australian species of Rhipicera, and the unique specimen of Golia- 

 thus Delessertii from the collection of M. Guerin-Meneville. The 

 following memoirs were read. Descriptions of Australian Chrysome- 

 lid«, continued, by the President. Description of an instrument for 

 capturing instruments by lamp-light, by Mr. Stevenson. Description 

 of a new species of Julus, irom Sandwich, Kent, by Mr. Newport. 

 Note on Entozoa found in the large veins of the liver of the human 

 subject, by Mr. Pettigrew. Description of a new exotic genus of la- 

 mellicorn Coleoptera allied to Pachypus, by Mr. Westwood. Notes 

 on Nyssia Zonaria, by Mr. Gregson. Notes on the parasitic habits 

 of the genus Nomada, by Mr. F. Smith. — J. O. W. 



JOHN VAN VOORST, ^\ HHIp^H?/ PATERNOSTER ROW. 



