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Anthores. AntenntB articulo 3o seqiientibus longiore. OcuH mecHocres. Elytra 

 basi cristata. Pedes aequales, femora incrassata. Pro- et raeso-stema declivia. 

 Typus, Monohammus leuconotus. White. Natal. 



Opephabus {Monohammo affiuis). Antennae longissimse, articulis .3o et 4o eequali- 

 bus, ultimo subulato. Elytra basi cristata. Pedes robusti, intermedii minores ; 

 femora in medio incrassata. Pro- et meso-slerna declivia. 



Opep/iarus signalor. Griseus, cinereo varius; elytris pone medium maculis 

 6 nigris. Long. 13 lin. Madagascar. 



Thysia viduala. Brevinscula,plunibeo-nigra; protliorace utrinque spinoso ; elytris 

 fasciis 5 vel 6 atris, apicibus emarginatis; mesosterno producto. Long. 13 lin. 

 Sumatra. 



March 2, 1868. 



H. W. Bates, Esq., President, in the chair. 



Donations to the Library. 

 The following donations were announced, and thanks voted to the donors:—- 

 'The Journal of the Linnean Society,' Zoology, No. 39; presented by the Society. 

 Newman's ' British Moths,' No. 15, and 'The Insect-Hunter's Year-Book for 1867;' 

 by the Author. 'The Zoologist' for March; by the Editor. ' The Entomologist's 

 Monthly Magazine' for March; by the Editors. 



Election of Members. 

 G. A. Lebour, Esq., of the Geological Survey Office, and Captain A. F. Lendy, 

 of Sunbury, were severally ballotted for, and elected Members. 



Exhibitions, jrc 



Mr. Edward Saunders exhibited various species of Buprestida which he had com- 

 pared with the Fabrician type-specimens in the collection of Sir Joseph Banks, with 

 a view to the correction of several errors of nomenclature. Thus the insects known as 

 Psiloptera morbillosa, Dicerca lurida and Belionota canaliculata were not the true 

 morbillosa, lurida and canaliculata of Fabricius: the species commonly called Ancy- 

 locheira flavomaculata, Fabr., was in fact the maculata of Fabricius, whilst the 

 maculata of authors other than Fabricius was identical with the strigosa of Gebler. 

 Mr. E. Saunders also exhibited Pasiphae modesta and Elhon cruciatum, which, 

 though described by Fabricius, and figured by Olivier and Herbst, had not been 

 noticed by recent authors, except that Gory had described, under the name of 

 Buprestis superba, an insect which was not specifically distinct from P. modesta. 



Mr. Pascoe exhibited the type of a new genus of Prionidse, captured by 

 Mr. Svvanzy ; and read the following description : — 



" EuDiANODEs {Colpodero aff.). — Clypeus distinctus. Prothorax marginibus 

 angustatis, serratis. Mesosternum latum. Tibiae simplices, compressae ; tarsi breves, 

 articulo ultimo CcEteris fere aequali. Corpus baud validura. 



