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Society. ' The Zoologist' for March; hy the Editor. ' Catalogue of British Cole- 

 optera,' by G. R. Waterhoiise, Esq , F.Z.S., &c., two copies, one of them printed on 

 one side only; by the Author. ' The Literary Gazette' for March ; by the Editor. 

 ' The Journal of the .Society of Arts' for March ; by the Society. ' Exotic Butter- 

 flies,' Part 26; by W. W. Saunders, Esq., F.R.S., &c. ' Stettiner Entomologische 

 Zeitung,' xix. jahrgang, Nos. 1 — 3 ; by the Entomological Society of Slettin. * The 

 Entomologist's Weekly Intelligencer,' Vol. iii. ; the same. No. 79 ; by H. T. Stainton, 

 Esq. ' The Athenaeum ' for February and March ; by ihe Editor. A pair of Carabus 

 inlricatus, Linn.; by J. J. Reading, Esq. 



Eleclion of Members. 



Alexander Wallace, Esq., of Bembridge, Isle of Wight, and H. G. Knaggs, Esq., 

 of Maldon Place, Camdeu Town, were balloted for and elected Members of the 

 Society. 



Exhibitions. 



Mr. Stevens exhibited a specimen of Papilio Ulysses, taken by Mr. Wallace in 

 Aru, and observed that Mr. Wallace saw this species on the wing almost daily during 

 his three months' stay in the island, but, owing to its high and rapid flight, he only 

 succeeded in capturing two examples. 



Mr. Janson exhibited various Coleoptera, handed to him for that purpose by 

 Mr. Douglas, which had been recently taken by that gentleman in nests of Formica 

 rufa ; the species most noteworthy were Saprinus piceus. III., Dendrophilns pygmajus, 

 jL., Leplacinus formicetorum, Maerk., and Thiasophila angulata, Erichs. 



Mr. Janson also exhibited a specimen of Harpalus servus, Dufi., which had been 

 detected by Mr. H. Squire among a number of unset Coleoptera presented to him by 

 Mr. F. Smith, by whom they were captured, near Deal, last autumn. He observed 

 that Mr. Squire, who had identified this insect, considered it specifically identical with 

 Harpalus maritimus {Kirby), Sleph. olim (subsequently sunk, in the ' Manual,' as 

 synonymous with H. complanatus, Sturm.), as he found the individual exhibited 

 agreed precisely with the specimens thus denominated in the Kirbyan, Slephensian 

 and Leachian cabinets. Mr. Janson remarked that he had not himself yet had an op- 

 portunity of following Mr. Squire's investigations in this matter; he was therefore not 

 competent either to confirm or contradict the view he advanced. 



Mr. Janson likewise laid before the Meeting the following, which he had recently 

 taken : — 



Oajusa rnjicornis, Kraatz, Naturgesch. d. Ins. Deulschl. ii. 158, 2 (1856), a species 

 not previously recorded as an inhabitant of Britain, and indeed only recently discovered 

 by Dr. Kraatz, near Berlin. It has also been taken in the vicinity of Paris, and is 

 described by MM. Fairmaire and Laboulbene iu their ' Faune Entomologique de 

 France,' i. 441, 3.3 (1856), under the name of Oxypoda fulvicornis: the specific title 

 imposed by Dr. Kraatz will, however, stand by right of priority, his description being 

 anterior in publication by several months. The present species may be at once dis- 

 tinguished from its near ally and as yet sole congener, 0. maura, Erichs., by its 

 superior size, brown hue, longer antenuce, and by the bright brownish red colour of 

 those organs and of the legs; other, less apparent, differences exist in the form of the 

 thorax and in the sculpture and pubescence of the elytra, &c. 



llyyronoma dimidiala, Grav., Erichs., Steph. 



