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the first part for the ensuing year, in the shape of a double number. 

 The priming of the 'Proceedings' had been stopped for a time, the 

 Editor of the ' Zoologist,' in which work our proceedings appear, 

 not having been willing to come into the views of our Secretaries on 

 the subject : this difficulty, I am happy to say, has been quite over- 

 come, and in a very short time the whole of the unprinted matter will 

 be before the Society ; it is already in the course of printing. 



The * Transactions ' contain the following papers : — 



The concluding i)ovtion of Mr. Pascoe's first paper "On new Longi- 

 corn Beetles," and his second contribution on the same subject, in 

 M'hich will be found the descriptions of many remarkable and very 

 interesting forms belonging to this large and important family. 



A paper by Mr. Newman, " On a few apparently undescribed In- 

 sects liora Moreton Bay," describing two species of Coleoptera, Elater 

 Jansoni and Stenodorus quietus ; three Lepidoptera, Deilephila Dalii, 

 Macroglossa Nox and Caslulo Doubledayii ; and two Diptera, Pan- 

 gonia Walkeri and Dasypogon Grantii. 



" Observations on Genera," by Mr. Slainton, in which the author 

 gives his ideas on the nature and extent of the characters necessary 

 to form a genus. This is a subject on which there is a great variety of 

 opinion, and the author's views are entitled to consideration. 



" Observations on the Difficulties attending the discrimination of 

 the Species of Stylops," by Mr. Smith, Here the author shows the 

 necessity of describing and figuring the species of Stylops while alive, 

 and not when dried up and the parts greatly altered, and points out 

 the confusion which has arisen from not attending to this important 

 particular. 



" Characters of undescribed Diptera," by Mr. Walker. A paper 

 giving the descriptions of numerous new species forming a portion of 

 the collection of your President. 



The conuiiencement of a paper by Mr. Westwood, " On the Ori- 

 ental Species of Butterfly allied to Morpho." 



A short note by your President, to accompany three Plates of the 

 transformations of some Lepidopterous Insects of Natal, by Mr. Plant, 

 and Mr. Walker's description of Lebeda cuneilinea, one of the Lepi- 

 doptera figured, and which is new to Science. 



A paper by Mr. Westwood, " On the Wing- Veins of Insects," in 

 which the author maintains the propriety of naming the thickened 

 portions of the wings of insects, sometimes called ribs, rays, nervures, 

 &c., veins, the author being of opinion that these thickened parts are 

 essentially veins 



