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a thread, wliilst in others tliey are also elongated, but furnished 

 on each side with curious dilated membranes, In the great 

 French work on Egypt, Savigny has represented a species sitting 

 at rest, in which the hind wings are held upright over the back, 

 like the wings of a butterfly. 



" In Dr. King's monograph, the localities of the different 

 species are the South of Europe, the North, West, South and 

 Eastern parts of Africa, and the West of Asia. Colonel Hearsey 

 has, however, brought a species home from Central India, figured 

 in the ' Cabinet of Oriental Entomology,' and we have now to 

 record a species from Western Australia, 



" Nemoptera Huttii. Spence's MSS. (Plate VIII. fig. 1.) 



" N. supra nigra, subtus cum lateribus flava, nigro-varia ; pe- 



dibus flavis ; alis anticis hyalinis, stigmate minirao fusco ; 



posticis elongatis, fuscis, pone medium biextensis, incisionibus 



obliquis, apice hyalino ; antennis crassis, elongatis. 



" Expansio alarum anticarum Ig unc. Affinis N. extensce, 



Oliv. ; barbarce, Fab. ; et praesertim dilatalce, Klug. 

 " Taken near a swamp on the road between Perth and Guild- 

 ford, in Western Australia, and communicated by Governor Hutt 

 to Wm. Spence, Esq. A second specimen has more recently been 

 obtained by the British Museum. 



" Obs. — The parts of the mouth are more exposed, and the 

 antennee much more incrassated than in N. Coa and its allies." 



\st November, 1847. 

 A. Ingpen, Esq. A.L.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Donations. 



Nouveaux Memoires de I'Academie Royale de Bruxelles. Vols. 

 19 and 20 ; 



Annuaires de I'Academie for 1846 and 1847; 



Bulletin de I'Academie des Sciences de Belgique. Vol. 1 3, Nos. 

 1—12 ; Vol. 14, Nos. 1—6; 



Memoires des Savans Etrangeres. Vols. 20, 21, (3 parts). All 

 presented by the Royal Academy of Brussels. 



Mantissa Secunda Curculionidum, Presented by M. C. J. 

 Schonherr, the Author thereof. 



Exhibitions, Memoirs, &c. 



Mr. Ingall exhibited specimens of the female of Lachnus 

 quercus, remarkable for being destitute of the long rostrum of 

 the male, and also the eggs of the same insect. 



