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the alteinalo interstices of the sliitE of the elytra sHj^litly raised, aiul the region of the 

 sciitelimn depressed. 



6. Cassida Vibex = C. nobilis of Bohem. The specimen is apparently discoU)uved ; 

 the whole dorsal surface of the elytra is darkish brown, if we except the second inter- 

 stice, which is pale, and which no doubt, in the living insect, was occupied by the 

 bright green stripe ; the dark colour occu|)ying the first inter>tice and the 3rd and 4lh 

 interstices of the striae, but st()pi)ing considerably short of the apex; the remaining 

 upper parts are paler : the under parts are black, the sides of the abdomen rather nar- 

 rowly edf^ed, and the apex very narrowly ed^ed with pale. The thighs are black, 

 excepting at the apex, and the tibiae and tarsi are piceo-testaceous (the anterior tibiae 

 piceous), which is unusual. The expanded margins of the elytra are deflexed. 

 Mr. Waterhouse considered that this must have been the C, nobilis of the ' Fauna 

 Suecica,' and does not really represent that described by Linneus under the same 

 name. 



Mr. Rye exhibited a specimen of Choleva spadicea found in a fungus at Coombe 

 Wood. 



Dr. Knaggs exhibited some eggs of a Lepidopterous insect from which small Hy- 

 menopterous parasites, apparently a species of Mymar, had emerged ; and some eggs 

 of Sesia bembeciformis found deposited on a sallow-leaf. 



Mr. Stevens exhibited some small Staphylinidae recently found in moss, including 

 Evoesthetus scaber, Acidota cruentatus, Stenus fuscicornis ? and Syntomium ajneum. 



Mr. Waterhouse read a paper intituled " Notes on the Species of Triplax of 

 Stephens's ' Illustrations' and Collection.'' 



January 7, 1861. 

 J. W. Douglas, Esq., President, in the chair. 



Donations. 



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

 to the donors: — ' Tijdschrift voor Entomologie,' Vol. iii. Part 4; presented by 

 the Entomological Society of the Netherlands. ' Abhandlungen de Mathemat- 

 Physikalischen Classe der Koeniglich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften,' 

 Vol. viii. Part 3. ' Deukrede auf Alexander von Humboldt;' ' Sitzungsberichte 

 der Konigl. bayer. Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Miinchen,' 1860, Part 3 ; by 

 the Academy. ' Kongliga Svenska Fregatten Eugenics Resa omkring Jorden In- 

 sekter,' Parts 2 and 3 ; by the Academic Royale des Sciences de Stockholm. ' Papers 

 and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania,' Vol. iii. Part 2 ; ' Report of the 

 Royal Society of Tasmania' for 1858 ; by the Society. ' Proceedings of the Royal 

 Society,' Vol. x. No. 41; by the Society. 'British Butterflies: Figures of every 

 Native Species, with an Account of Butterfly-development, Structure, Habits, Localities, 

 Mode of Capture and Preservation, &c.,' by W. S. Coleman ; by the Publishers, Messrs. 

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