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that state of incipient disease in which alone they are selected by 
the female for depositing her eggs. He had likewise recently 
described two distinct urinary calculi, found in the so-called biliary 
vessels of Lucanus capreolus. 
Mr. Spence also communicated the following notice of several 
memoirs of M. Wesmael. The first, “ Sur la Circulation de Fluide 
nutritif dans les Pattes des Corises” ( C . Strigata, Latr.,) confirming 
from his own observations Behn’s discoveries, and explaining 
Dufour’s denial of their accuracy, by the fact that he examined 
them in cold weather, in which M. Wesmael finds that the phe- 
nomenon is not visible. The second is a description of a new 
Lepidopterous genus, Himantopterus , with very long linear pos- 
terior wings. The species is from Java, and is specifically named 
H. fuscinervis. The third comprises a description of a new 
genus of the Curculionidce , nearest to the Apionidce of Schonherr’s 
division Orthocerce, but not described by that author, and which 
M. Wesmael names Metorhjnchus, from its very long filiform ros- 
trum, which is two and a half times as long as the body. The 
species is from the Cape of Good Hope, and is specifically named 
M. brunneus .* It is wholly rufescent, and the length of the body, 
including the rostrum, is from ten to twelve lines. The fourth is 
the description of a new genus of Neuroptera, belonging to the 
family Planipennes, and tribe Hemerobiens, which he names Mala- 
comiza. The species is named M. lactca ; it is one line long, and 
is found near Brussels.')' 
July 4 th, 1836. 
The Rev. F. W. Hope, F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 
Donations. 
Memoir on the Larva of Chalmys. Presented by Dr. Burmeister, 
the Author thereof. 
* This insect evidently appears to be the Antliarhinus Zavnia. Thunb. Sch. 
(Cure, haustellatus, Fabr.) The entire omission of the group Antliarhinides in 
Schonherr’s first volume, probably induced M. Wesmael to consider it as an 
unknown genus. The group, however, is described in detail in the appendix to 
the third volume. (J. O. W.) 
t This genus is evidently identical with that of which I read the description 
before the Entomological Society on the 7th July, 1831, under the name of Coniortes, 
and which Mr. Curtis subsequently published in his Illustrations of British Ento- 
mology, under the name of Conicjtteryx:. (J. O. W.) 
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