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forming the club were much deformed, and more or less anchylosed. A second speci- 

 men was remarkable only for having one of the hind legs much smaller than the 

 other. 



Mr. Stevens exhibited a box of Coleoptera, chiefly Geodephaga, taken in the 

 neighbourhood of Rio, by Mr. Squire. 



Mr. Syme exhibited a beautiful drawing of the larva of Sphinx Convolvuli, drawn 

 from Nature by Mrs. Syme ; he also exhibited the following Lepidoptera, taken during 

 the past season on the South Coast, viz., Leucania viiellina, Heliothis armigera, 

 Ennomos fuscautaria and Phibalapteryx gemmaria. 



Mr. Bond exhibited a fine Phycis, new to this country, taken in Dorsetshire by 

 the Rev. Mr. Green; and a specimen of Ancylocheira fasciata. Fab., found alive in 

 Oxford Street, in July last. 



Mr. Jauson exhibited a specimen of Hydrochus carinatus, Germar, a species new 

 to the British list, one of two taken by Mr. T. P. Dossetor, at the beginning of May 

 last, in Holme Fen, Huntingdonshire ; and an example of Mycetophagus quadrigut- 

 latus, Miiller (M. pubescens, Sleph.), found about three weeks since, by Mr. R. 

 M'Lachlan, in a fungus on an oak, near Beckenham, Kent, and remarked that the 

 present individual, one in the cabinet of the late Mr. Stephens, from the neighbour- 

 hood of Portsmouth, and one taken by Mr. Walerhouse, in the corridor of the Crystal 

 Palace, at Sydenham, in April, were the only indigenous examples of this species he 

 had yet seen. 



Mr. Stainton exhibited some specimens of Micro-Lepidoptera, collected in South 

 Africa by Mr. Trimen, amongst which was a beautiful Neurophora, which, unlike the 

 known species of that genus, was adorned with elegant markings ; some specimens of 

 the genus Coleophora, though in bad condition, were interesting as the first extra- 

 European examples of that genus which had been met with. 



Mr. Stainton also exhibited, on behalf of Mr. Birks, of York, a specimen of An- 

 chocelis rufina, with an expanded tuft of hairs inserted beneath the abdomen, on the 

 side of the third segment; a similar brush had existed on the opposite side, but had 

 become detached whilst being microscopically examined. Mr. Stainton said it had 

 been suggested that this was a peculiarity of the male A. rufina, and Mr. McLachlau 

 remarked that he had noticed it in other specimens. 



Mr. Trimen exhibited some apparently nondescript Coleoptera and Lepidoptera, 

 from South Africa. 



Dr. Allchin exhibited an example of Luperina Duraerilii, taken at Brighton on the 

 26th September last. 



Mr. Pascoe exhibited some longicorn beetles sent from Batchian by Mr. A. R. 

 Wallace, and furnished the following characters of two of the species: — 



CeRAiMBVX aubeipennis. 



C. ater; prothor.ace elongato, mutico, anlice angustato, disco tuberculis tribus 

 nitidis ; elylris sericeo-aurantiacis ; anlenuis corpore brevioribus. Long. 

 8 lin. Batchian. 



Tmesisternus lotor. 



T. oblongo-ovatus, fulvo-brunneus ; capite, prothorace, elytris plagis tribus anticis, 

 fascia post-mediana, maculisque apicalibus flavo-griseis ; geniculis uigris. 

 Long, i) lin. Batchian. 



