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' The Journal of the Society of Arts ; ' by the Society. ' A Manual of British Butter- 

 flies and Moihs,' No. 18; 'The Entomologist's Weekly Intelligencer,' Nos. 89, 90, 

 91 and 92 ; by H. T. Stainton, Esq. 



Exhibitions. 



Mr. Smith exhibited some insects of various orders collected at Sierra Leone by 

 Mr. Foxcroft, upon which Mr. Adam White communicated the following notes : — 



Anthocharis Evippe, male and female. 



Pliilognoma Varanes. Found in West Africa as well as South Africa. 



Romaleosoma Ceres. A genus of many species, of sombre and yet not unhandsome 

 butterflies, peculiar to West Africa. 



The large black Hesperia {Mars. P) and two or three other interesting species may 

 be specified. 



Ponlia Narica. Connecting Pontia with Leucophasia. 



Myrina Alcides or an allied species. It would be very valuable to ascertain 

 the transformations of this fine butterfly and of the allied genus lolaus. 



Acraa Circeis, Westw. There are several species of Acraea in this little col- 

 lection ; Acraea Euryla, var., with its spined chrysalis, and Acraea Quirina, a lovely 

 species. 



The sugar-cane Nonagria, very like the one figured by Landsdown Guilding, from 

 the West Indies. 



Of Sphingidae, Daphnis Nerii, so widely distributed, and Acherontia Atropos, 

 whose food-plants are also widely spread, may be specified. 



The fig-tree feeder is one of the most interesting moths in the collection ; it 

 belongs to the same group as Cossus and Zenzera, and may prove a genus allied to 

 Langsdorfia from Brazil and Cossodes from King George's Sound. 



Massaga Hesparia, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. in Brit. Mus., pt. 2, p. 358. {Phalcena 

 Hesparia, Cram. Pap. Exot. i. p. 87, pi. 56, f. C). 



We have an imperfect specimen of this in the British Museum from Sierra Leone, 

 where it was found by the Rev. D. F. Morgan. Cramer published it as from 

 Demerara, but Morgan's, and again Foxcroft's capture of it as well as its affinities, 

 show that Sierra Leone is its real habitat. 



Thyridopleryx Sierricola, White. Male. Antennis subfuscis pallidulis, alis hya- 

 linis, argenteo-nitidis, anticis ad basin plaga atra longi-squamulata, thorace lana alba 

 sericea longa induto. Hab. — Sierra Leone. 



An interesting member of a genus which doubtless abounds in species. Mr. 

 Westwood's monographs of these " Arcana " will require shortly a new edition. This 

 should be figured with its chrysalis, cocoon, &c. 



Of Orlhoptera, there may be specified a curious Hymenotes with its Membracis- 

 like aspect, a very interesting Mantidous insect allied to one described by Westwood. 



Of Coleoptera there are several species, some of which are Myrmecopbilous and 

 Staphyliuidous. 



Of Geodephaga, an Acanlhogenius, and a Cicindela, allied to nitidula. 



Of Lumellicorns (and the Cetoniadous family in particular) may be specified 

 Plaesiorhina recurva (Fabr.), Schaum. ; Pachnoda fimbriata {Gori/ S,- Perch), Burin. — 

 perhaps only a variety of P. olivacea ; Pachnoda marginella. 



