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which, from the structure of its palpi, mandibles and legs, M. Dugés was inclined to 
refer to the neighbourhood of Tetranychus. In every other recorded immature state of 
Acaride the animals possessed six legs. The question of the introduction of such 
great numbers of these minute creatures within the closely-packed leaves of the 
currant buds was difficult of explanation, but Mr. Stainton suggested that the eggs 
had been introduced into the immature buds in the previous autumn. 
Prof. Westwood also exhibited a remarkable new species of butterfly from East 
India, which, although presenting all the general appearance of a species of the 
Brazilian genus Brassolis in its robust body and wings and in the coloration of the 
latter, belongs to the Lycenidw, having the veins of the fure wings arranged as in 
Amblypodia Timoleon. The following are its characters :— 
Genus Lipnyra, Westw. 
Corpus breve, crassum. Caput mediocre, oculis magnis. Palpi minuti, obliqui, 
supra vix visibiles, articulo ultimo ovali, apice acuto. Antenne recte, dimidio 
apicali sensim clavate. Pedes valde abbreviati, crassi, omnes sex equales, 
perfecti, tibiis omnibus ecalearatis; tarsorum unguibus integris, vec bifidis, 
pseudonychiis conicis, pulvillo subbilobato. Alaz magne, obtuse, ecaudate ; 
anticarum vena postcostali 4-ramosa, ramis duobus ante apicem cellule dis- 
coidalis, alterisque duobus equidistantibus inter cellulam et apicem, cellula 
clausa; posticarum margine costali angulato, cellula in angulum acutum 
terminata. 
Lienyra Brassouis, Westw. 
L. fusca; alis anticis nigris, plaga magna hastata interno-basali, maculaque sub- 
quadrata parva discoidali fulvis; alis posticis fulvis, limbo maculisque quaiuor 
parvis disci nigris. 
Expans. alar. une. 34. 
Habitat Assam (Jenkins), Singapore (Horsley). 
In Museo Hopeiano Oxoniz. 
Paper read. 
Mr. Francis Walker communicated a paper entitled “ Descriptions of undescribed 
Chalcidites.” The whole of the species belonged to the genus Smiera, were discovered 
by Mr. Bates in the Amazon country, and are now in the collection of the British 
Museum. 
July 4, 1864. 
A. R. Waxtace, Esq., V.P., in the chair. 
Additions to the Library. 
The following donations were announced, and thanks voted to the donors:— 
‘Proceedings of the Royal Society,’ Nos. 62, 63 and 64; presented by the Society. 
‘Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Vol. viii. Botany, No. 29; by 
the Society. ‘The Journal of Entomology, No. 10; by the Proprietors. ‘Catalogue 
of the Coleopterous Insects of the Canaries in the Collection of the British Museum, 
by T. Vernon Wollaston, M.A., F.L.S.; by the Author. ‘A Treatise on Insects 
