126 Transactions. 



tragedy). Appuleius (Golden Ass. x., p. 238) : — Jam ergo lector 

 optime, scito te tragoediam non fabulam (comedy) legere, et a 

 socco ad cothurnura ascendere. 



13. Articuli ^:)a?mfflritni (the wrists). Appuleins {Florida p- 

 351) : — Chlamyde velat utrumque brachium adusque articulos 

 palmarum. 



Uth May, 1893. 



Mr Thomas M'Kie, Vice-President, in the chair. 



Donations. — Records of Scotch plants for 1892, by Mr Arthur 

 Bennett ; Immigrant Plants in Los Angeles County, California, 

 by Dr A. Davidson ; Climate and Floral Regions in Africa, by 

 Mr Gr. F. Scott-Elliot ; Report of the Berwickshire Naturalists 

 Club, 1890-1; Essex Naturalist, January March, 1893; Report 

 of Marlborough College Natural History Society, 1892 ; Report of 

 the Smithsonian Museum for 1890 ; Report of the Bureau of 

 Ethnology, Washington, 1885-6 ; the Dakota-English Dictionary, 

 from the United States Geographical and Geological Survey 

 Department; the Bibliography of the Athapascan Indians, from 

 the Smithsonian Museum. 



Communications. 



1. A Note on the genus Apion. 



By Mr W. D. Robinson-Douglas, M.A., F.L.S., Orchardton. 



Among the genera of our native Coleoptera two stand out pre- 

 eminent for the large number of the species they contain, and 

 it might be added fcr the smallness of the individuals themselves 

 in each case. These genera are Homalota among the Stapliijlinidce, 

 and Albion among the RhyncJiophora. The Litter one, and how far 

 I have found it represented here, is the subject of the following 

 slight note. 



Not only is the genus numerous, but it is also widely dis- 

 tributed, chiefly in the temperate regions, and also, so it is said, 

 more especially in districts bordering the sea than far inland. The 

 European fauna possesses some 250 species. Of these about 75 are 

 British, and among these again my not very careful researches 

 here have yielded 23, a number which, I am sure, with more 



