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constant difference of form between them, except that Gol. 

 cacicus has the legs more slender than Gol. Drur'n, and that the 

 angulations of the head and thorax are somewhat different in the 

 two species. 



Mr. J. W. Douglas exhibited the pupae of Spilonota fcenella, 

 in the stems of Artemisia campestris. 



Mr. Sheppard exhibited some remarkable varieties of Melitcsa 

 cinxia, Thecla pruni, and Graphiphora suhrosea. 



The following note by Dr. Schaum was read : " Since my de- 

 scription oi Plntygenia exarata was published in the fifth volume 

 of the Transactions of this Society, I have had an opportunity of 

 seeing the male of that species in the collection of Dr. Zimmer- 

 mann, of Colombia, South Carolina. On this sex the inside of 

 the hind tibiae has a thick brush of black hairs ; the claws of the 

 anterior tarsi are simple, while they are toothed at the base in 

 Plat, barbata, a fact showing that this character has here only a 

 specific, not a generic value. 



** I take advantage of this opportunity to correct an error of 

 the press in my description of PL exarata, p. 76. In the third 

 line from below of that page, instead of ' proves that the speci- 

 men is a male,' read 'female ;' and p. 74, line 20, read ' margine,' 

 not ' marginato.' " 



Mr. E. Doubleday made some remarks upon the very valuable 

 collection of Coleoplera, which Dr. Schaum had formed during his 

 journey in the United States ; especially referring to the geo- 

 graphical distribution of the species, a large number of which 

 have a very wide range. Many of those found by Dr. Schaum in 

 Louisiana, having been taken by himself both in the State of 

 New York and in East Florida, showing a range of above nine 

 hundred miles from North to South, and above one thousand 

 miles from East to West. This range was the more remarkable 

 from the well known fact that the climate changes more in a 

 given number of degrees of latitude in the United States than in 

 Europe. 



A requisition for a special general meeting to consider certain 

 alterations in the Bye-Laws, signed by six members, was read. 



