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by Col. Montague in the Supplement to the Ornithological Dic- 
tionary, and that it also occurred in the pheasant. 
Mr. Waterhouse stated, in respect to the characters of the spe- 
cies of Carabus brought from Patagonia by Mr. Darwin, that the 
anterior tarsi of the males are not dilated, as in the European 
species, and that in the Calosomce some possessed four, and some 
only three of the joints dilated. 
Mr. Westwood stated, in reference to the observations of Mr. 
Hope upon the sacred beetle, that the idea of its emblematically 
representing the resurrection, originated in its sudden reappear- 
ance after the subsiding of the waters of the Nile. This had been 
repeatedly stated by various writers upon the subject, and espe- 
cially by Latreille, in his Memoir upon the Sacred Beetles of the 
Egyptians. 
Mr. Petit admitted such was, at least, one of the causes which 
had led to the sacred character of these insects ; and he also stated 
that another reason was, that it was considered as emblematical 
of the zodaical signs ; the five tarsal joints in all the legs (thirty 
in number) represented the thirty days in a month. He also en- 
tered into various details in connexion with this subject. 
June 5th, 1837. 
The Rev. W. Kirby, M.A., F.R.S., Hon. President, in the Chair. 
Donations. 
Memoires de la Societe royale des Sciences de l’Agriculture et 
des Arts de Lille. 13 vols. dated 1811, 1819, 1823, 1826 (2 
vols.), 1828, 1829, 1831, 1832, 1833 (2 vols.), 1834 and 1835. 
Presented by that Society. 
Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France 1837. Part 1. 
By that Society. 
Description of Meloe collegialis. 
Memoir upon the Habits of Artemia salina. 
Observations upon a case of Calculus found in the Body of Lu- 
canus Cervus. All presented by M. V. Audouin, the Author 
thereof. 
Account of the Progress of Entomology for 1835. 
