JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS. XI 



landm Tamarindi)." By W. Christy, Jun., Esq., F.L.S. (See ante, 

 page 36. Memoir VIIL) 



Continuation of " Descriptions of new exotic Coleoptera." By the 

 Rev. F. W. Hope. (See ante, p. 11.) 



" Observations upon the OEcononiy and Description of a Grega- 

 rious Species of Butterfly from Mexico." By J. O.Westvvood, F.L.S. 

 (See ante, page 38. Memoir IX.) This Memoir was prefaced by 

 some remarks upon the typicality of groups as evinced not only by 

 superiority of organization, but by the greater degree of instinctive 

 development. 



" Descriptions of some Australian Species o^Phasmata." By G, R. 

 Gray, Esq. (See ante, page 45. Memoir X.) 



" Descriptions of some nevv Genera of British Homojitera." By 

 R. H. Lewis, Esq. (See ante, page 47. Memoir XI.) 



The Rev, F. W. Hope read a Notice of several Species of In- 

 sects found in the heads of Egyptian Mummies, some of which had 

 been extracted from the head of a female mummy with plaited hair, 

 which was exhibited at this Meeting by Mr. Wilkinson, the cele- 

 brated Egyptian traveller, by whom it was brought from Thebes, 

 The following is a list of the recorded mummied insects, including 

 those described by Mr. Hope in this Communication, and which is 

 extracted from a ' History of Egyptian Mummies,' &;c., by Thos. 

 Jos. Pettigrew, F.R.S., &c. : London, 1834. 



1. Corynetes vlolaceus. Fab. Vid. Linn. Trans., vol. xiv.. Ap- 

 pendix, 



2. Necrobia Mumiarum, Hope in op. cit., p. 54. pi. V. fig. 1^ — 3 

 a — d. Purpurascens, hirta, antennis pedibusque flavo-rubris. 

 Totum corpus fere supra violaceum, pimctatum, marginibus 

 elytrorum rufescentibus lineato-punctatis. Corpus infra ni- 

 grum, hirtum, pedibus flavo-rubris. Long. lin. 3, lat. lin. \^. 



Mr. Hope thinks it probable that these insects when alive were 

 of a violet or deep purple colour, the medicaments used in the pro- 

 cess of embalming having partly discharged the colouring matter. 

 Some of them also exhibit the appearance of immaturity. 



3. Dermestes vulpmus, Fab. F«c^. Linn. Trans., vol. xiv.. Ap- 

 pendix. 



4. Dermestes pollinctus, Hope in op. cit., p. 55. pi. V. fig. 4 — 7 j. 

 imago 8 — 9 e — /. Larva of ditto and details {I representing 

 the eyes of the latter, and not the ova, as described in p. 261). 

 Totum corpus supra castaneum, subtomentosum, pedibus con- 

 coloribus abdomineque infra albido. Caput fusco-rubrum 

 oculis niEcris, antennis rubro-castaneis. Thorax castaneus, 



