148 Zoological Society. 



CuMiNGiA STRIATA, A. Adams. C. testd ovato-trigonali suh- 

 ventricosd albd tenui fragili ; siriis transversis concentricis ele- 

 vatis confertis, interstitiis longitudinaliter striatis, latere an- 

 tico latiore rotundato, postico subacunmiato, margine ventrali 

 postice coarctato. 

 Hab. Conception ; seven fathoms, sandy mud ; H. C. (Mus. Cu- 

 ming.) 



CuMiNGiA siNUOSA, A. Adams. C. testd subtrigonali albd semi- 

 pellucidd subaquilaterali concentrice lamellosd, insterstitiis lon- 

 gitudinaliter substriatis, latere antico sublatiore rotundatu, 

 postico angustiore, margine ventrali postice valdh sinuato. 



Hab. West Indies. (Mus. Cuming.) 



February 12. — William Yarrell, Esq., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The following papers were read : — 

 1. On the Trichoglossine genus of Parrots, Eos, with 



THE description OF TWO NEW SPECIES. By ChARLES 



LuciAN, Prince Bonaparte, Member of the principal 



ACADEMIES OF EUROPE AND AMERICA. 



The genus Eos is, like Eclectus, a new instance of the impropriety 

 of that middling course (as disgusting in science as it is in politics), 

 of uniting together by two and two, four and four, &c., small 

 groups (or States), which, natural by themselves, have no stronger 

 relation to each other than to any other member of their family. 

 Take for example (comparing them to Naples and Sicily !) Spiza and 

 Paroaria, Bon., united by G. R. Gray under his Spisa ! amongst the 

 Fringillida, and amongst the Parrots Psittacodis* and Eclectus 

 confounded together by the same process ! 



The genus Eos is intermediate between the two subfamilies T7-i- 

 choglossince and Loriince. Although it may astonish some natural- 

 ists that I do not consider it as one of the latter, still, on account of 

 its tail, its anatomy and its habits, I keep it within the boundaries 

 of the former, in close relation with my new genus Chalcopsitta f, 



* Since I speak of Psittacodis (the only green Genus of Lorine Parrots, which 

 forms the same beautiful passage from Loriinoe to Psittacinee that Eos does from 

 Trichoglossin(B to LoriincB), let me submit to the Society the phrases of two new 

 species that make the whole number hitherto known five : they come as near 

 Psittacodis magnus or sinensis (with which I for that reason compare them) as 

 the three Eclecti do to each other : — 



1. PsiTTACUS MAGNUS et SINENSIS, Gm. {vtridts, Lath.; lateralis, Shaw; 

 Mascarinus prasinus, Less. ; Psittacodis magnus, Viag].; Eclectus.' pobjchlo- 

 ros! Or. ex Scopoli) PI. Enl. 514 ; Edw. B. t. 231 ; Lev. Perr. 1. 132. 



Major : iliis rubris : margine alarum cyaneo : cauda apice subconcolori. 



2. Psittacodis intermedius, Bp. Mus. Lugd. 



Minor : iliis rubris : margine alarum rubro : cauda apice subconcolori. 



3. PsiTrAcoDis Westermanni, Bp. Zool. Soc. Amst. 



Minor : iliis concoloribus : margine alarum ccernleo : cauda apice subconcolori. 

 Dedicated to the able and modest Director of the Zoological Society of Am- 

 sterdam, where this nevf Parrot is living. 



t This new genus of mine, though composed of decided Trichoglossine Parrots, 



