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Society of Arts’ for August; by the Society. ‘The Reader’ for August; by the 
Editor. ‘The Atheneum’ for July and August; by the Editor. 
The following addition by purchase was also announced :—C. G. Thomson, ‘ Skan- 
dinaviens Coleoptera,’ Vol. 6. 
Election of Member. 
James Bladon, Esq., of Pontypool (already an Annual Subscriber to the Society), 
was ballotted for and elected a Member. 
Exhibitions, &c. 
Mr. Dunning exhibited a number of full-fed larve of a Noctua (Agrotis segetum, 
or A. exclamationis ?), which had been sent to him by Mr. J. D. Kay, from Branting- 
ham, in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Mr. Kay had had a field of turnips, worth 
£150, entirely destroyed by these caterpillars. Numerous similar instances from 
various parts of the country were mentioned, and it was stated that their ravages were 
not confined to the turnip-crops. 
Mr. E. W. Janson exhibited four species ofgColeoptera hitherto unrecorded as 
British, and communicated the following in reference thereto :— 
“1, Euryusa sinuata, Aric. 
Euryusa sinuata, Bric. Kaef. d. Mark Brand. i. 372, 1 (1839); Gen. et Spec. 
Staph. 199, 1, tab. 1, f. 2 (1839). Kraatz, Naturg. d. Ins. Deutschl. 
ii. 73, 1 (1856). 
A single specimen, the only indigenous example of this interesting species which 
I have seen, captured by the Rev. A. Matthews, many years since, in Oxfordshire. 
It is readily distinguished from its near ally, E. laticollis, Heer, by its short pro- 
thorax, the sinuate hinder margin of this segment, and its nearly rectangular posterior 
angles. 
“2. Leprusa anauis, Gyll. 
Aleochara analis, Gyll. Ins. Suec. ii. 388, 11 (1810). 
Oxypoda analis, Hric. Gen. et Spec. Staph. 154, 29 (1839). 
Leptusa analis, Kraatz, Naturg. d. Ins. Deutschl. ii. 62, 2 (1856); Thomson, 
Skand. Col. ii. 275, 1 (1860). 
Captured during the past month in the Black Forest, Perthshire, by Mr. D. Sharp. 
Differs conspicuously from L. fumida in its superior size, reddish brown hue, semi- 
opaque surface, and more strongly and coarsely punctate abdomen. 
“3, ALEOCHARA SPADICEA, Bric, (Var. major. Long. 2 lin.; elytris piceis.) 
Ocalea spadicea, Eric. Kaef. d. Mark Brand. i. 300, 3 (1839); Gen. et Spec. 
Staph. 61, 3 (1839). 
Aleochara spadicea, Kraatz, Naturgesch. d. Ins. Deutschl. ii. 98, 18 (1856). 
Taken by Mr. J. A. Brewer, in Cumberland, in the autumn of 1863. 
I communicated this specimen to Dr, Kraatz, who returned it to me labelled “ Ab 
Aleochara spadicea vix distincta.” 
It appears to me not improbable that Aleochara procera, Hric’, Kraatz (Ocalea 
procera, Hric), will ultimately prove to have been founded on large dark individuals of 
the species now under consideration ; the specimen exhibited presenting, in its superior 
size, piceous elytra, and foveolated prothorax, several of the characters assigned to 
A. procera. 
“4, Homatota noTHa, Eric. ‘ 
Homalota notha, Bric. Gen. et Spec. Staph. 126, 101 (1839); Kraatz, Naturg. 
d. Ins. Deutschl. ii, 323, 127 (1856). 
