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to Mr. Curtis's paper on that insect, with its fine drawing. Mr. While expressed 

 himself pleased that in a Catalogue lite Schaum's, philosophical arrangement, 

 founded on an extensive study of the Coleoptera of all countries, had led Dr. Schaum 

 to place Amorphocephalus, the solitary European representative of the Brenthidae, 

 just before the Longicorns. 



The Secretary read a letter from L. Lardner, Esq., accompanying some living 

 larvae, apparently of a species of Curculio, from Calcutta, feeding on poppy seeds, 

 received from Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy. 



Mr. Stevens read the following extract from a letter just received, addressed to 

 him by Mr. A. R. Wallace, dated Batchian, Moluccas, October 29th, 1858:— 



"As there is now a boat going which may just catch the mail at Ternate, I write 

 a few lines to let you know of my having arrived here safe and commenced operations. 

 I came here in a small hired boat with my own men, luckily it was fine weather, or 

 100 miles at sea with no means of cooking and only room for one day's water, would 

 have been more than unpleasant. I stopped five days at the Kaiod Islands, just half 

 way, and got a nice collection of beetles, a fair number of new species, and some 

 curious varieties of those before found at Ternate and Gilolo. I have only been here 

 five days, but from what I have already done, and the nature of the country, I am 

 inclined to think it may prove one of the best localities I have yet visited ; I have 

 already twenty species of Longicorns new to me, nothing very grand, but many pretty 

 and very interesting ; the most remarkable is one of the Boinean genus, Triammatus, 

 also several species of the elegant little genus Serixia, which have been very scarce or 

 absent since I left Sarawak ; I have also an elegant new Pachyrhynchus, a fine Ips, 

 a small new Cicindela, and a small new species of Therates. In butterflies I have 

 taken an imperfect specimen of a glorious new species very like Papilio Ulysses, but 

 distinct, and even handsomer ! I have also seen a female of a grand new Ornithop- 

 tera, but cannot say what the male will prove to be. I have several times seen what 

 I think is a new species allied to Papilio Codrus, but they are too wild to catch : the 

 Papilio allied to P. Sarpedon, which I found at Macassar, is also here, and two or three 

 other species which I have not yet been able to capture." 



Part I. of the fifth volume of the new series of the Society's ' Transactions ' was 

 announced as published. 



April 4, 1859. 

 Dr. Gbay, President, in the chair. 



Donations. 



The following donations were announced, and thanks ordered to be presented to the 

 donors: — 'Memoires de la Societe de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Geneve,' 

 Tome xiv. 2e Partie ; presented by the Society. ' Meraoires couronnes et Menioires 

 des Savants eirangers,' publics par I'Acaderaie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des 



