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the tegmina and wings extend to the extremity of the second dorsal segment of the 
abdomen. 
Puytirum FEeseEANUM, Westw. 
Parvum, lete viride, tegminibus fulvo-maculatis; capite et prothorace granulatis ; 
abdomine subheptagono, lateribus segmentorum haud lobatis ; femoribus anticis 
~ elongato-ovalibus, dimidio apicali marginis interni lobo semi-rotundo denticulato 
armatis; tibiis omnibus gracilibus; femoribus intermediis elongato-ovalibus, nec 
intus angulatis. (Famina.) 
In Mus. Hopeiano Oxonie. Habitat Ins. Feejee. 
Closely allied to and of the same size as P. lobiventre, but differs in the form of 
the abdomen and legs. The male is very slender, having the abdomen elongate- 
| lanceolate, with the margins entire, and the terminal joints of the antenne somewhat 
thickened. 
| Mr. S. Stevens exhibited a box of insects recently received from Mr. Diggles, of 
“Moreton Bay, Queensland; they consisted principally of Lepidoptera, with a few 
-Orthoptera, admirably preserved. 
Mr. Sharp exhibited a single specimen of a beetle new to this country, the Stenus 
Kiesenwetteri, which he had captured at Wimbledon. The species appeared to be a 
rare one, but had occurred in Spain and in Bavaria. 
Capt. Cox sent for exhibition some photographs of insects, the execution of which 
excited the admiration of all ; they were very nearly, but rather under, the natural size. 
The Secretary mentioned that the name of Sosxetra, proposed by Mr. F, Walker 
for a new genus of Hymenoptera (Chalcidide), Trans. Ent. Soe. Ser. 3, vol. i. p. 370, 
must, according to the ordinary rules of nomenclature, be sunk, since the same author 
had, at p. 84 of the same volume, described a new genus of Lepidoptera under the 
same name. i 
Mr. Frederick Smith said that in stating the contents of the late Mr. Curtis’s 
British Collection, in his Address to the Society at the last Anniversary Meeting, he 
had made a serious mistake. See ‘Journal of Proceedings’ for 1863, p. 198. The 
actual number of specimens wes as follows:—Coleoptera, 9405 ; Lepidoptera, 7200; 
Hymenoptera, 7715 ; Diptera, 5878; Neuroptera, 1165; Hemiptera, 1673 ; Homoptera, 
244 specimeus. 
The Rev. Hamlet Clark communicated extracts from a letter recently received 
from Mr. John Gray, who was collecting insects at the Cape de Verdes. The letter 
was partly written from the Island St. Nicholas, under date 22nd of February, 1864, and 
partly from Porto Grande, St. Vincent, 29th of February, 1864. Eight days had been 
spent in St. Nicholas, but as regarded Entomology the, expedition was a failure ; it 
was the mid-winter of that country, and more beetles could have been got out of any 
turnip-field on avy Christmas-day in England than he had been able to procure there 
from the whole of the vegetation put together. Nevertheless a few nice beetles were 
captured—a handsome Dytiscus, a large tropical Gyrinus (Dineutes ?), and eight or 
ten species of Harpalide, taken high up on the mountains (Nebria, &c.). Altogether, 
however, a list could not be made of more than twenty species, of which about five 
were Heteromera, several species of which were in profusion under every stone. There 
were no signs anywhere of abundant insect-life; nothing was seen upon the walls of 
the houses, nothing upon the flowers, nothing anywhere except the Heteromera under 
stones. A few fine spiders had been obtained, and carefully preserved in spirits. 
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