xhi 
figures thereof published by Donovan in the ‘ Naturalists’ Repository,’ 
although stated to have been copied from Mr. Jones's ‘ Icones,’ were drawn 
by Donovan from a torn and mutilated copy of Jones's figure, and completed 
from Charaxes Fabius. 
Mr. Albert Miiller read the following notes :— 
‘Tn reference to the question whether Libellulide are liable to be perse- 
cuted by birds, I wish to point out that they have very powerful enemies to 
contend with in the Falconide, as Natterer has stated that a species 
belonging to this tribe, namely Hypotriorchis rufigularis, Gray, was met by 
him late in the evening, after sunset, flying over the tops of figeira (?) trees, 
near Sapitiba (Brazil), apparently to catch insects, and that the stomach of 
a female contained Libellulidee (Verhandl. K. K. Zool. Bot. G. in Wien. 
1868, p. 632). It will be recollected that at the last Meeting Mr. 
M‘Lachlan exhibited an instance of mimicry between two species of 
American Libellulide, so it may be worth while to inquire if these suffer 
similar persecution by birds of prey. At any rate, I throw out the 
suggestion.” 
Mr. Horne remarked that during his residence in India he had never 
seen Libellulide attacked by birds. 
Papers read, &c. 
Major Parry communicated the following :— 
“ Tissapterus Howittanus, H. Deyrolle, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1870, p. 98.— 
On perusing Prof. Westwood’s recent paper in the ‘ Transactions’ of 
the Society, containing descriptions and notices of several new and inte- 
resting species of Lucanoid Coleoptera, my attention has been called to a 
note the author has appended to his notice of an insect originally described 
by himself under the name of Lissotes Howittanus, a most remarkable and 
interesting form, pertaining to the family of the Dorcide. ‘This insect has 
been subsequently characterised, by M. Henri Deyrolle (loc. cit.), as the 
type of a new genus, and published as such in my Catalogue of the Lucanoid 
Coleoptera (vide Trans. Ent. Soc. 1870). In the note alluded to in 
Prof. Westwood’s publication (Trans. Ent. Soc. 1871, p. 869} I find the 
following statement made by the author with reference to the species in 
question :—‘ Lissapterus Howittanus (Deyrolle), Parry, Trans. Ent. Soc. 
1870, p. 114.—The genus Lissapterus of Deyrolle, to which this insect is 
assigned by Major Parry, must be unpublished, since I am unable to find 
it either in his Memoir in the Annales de la Soc. Ent. France for 
1864, or in his Memoir in the Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. for 1864, vol. ix.’ 
Had my friend Prof. Westwood turned to page 98 of the publication he 
quotes, the information he was anxious to obtain would have been found, 
