﻿sented 
  by 
  tLe 
  Author. 
  ' 
  Bulletin 
  de 
  la 
  Societe 
  Imperiale 
  des 
  Naturalistes 
  de 
  Moscou,' 
  

   1851, 
  No. 
  2 
  ; 
  by 
  the 
  Society. 
  ' 
  Proceedings 
  of 
  the 
  Royal 
  Society,' 
  Vol. 
  vi. 
  No. 
  82 
  — 
  

   85 
  ; 
  by 
  the 
  Society. 
  ' 
  Monographie 
  des 
  Guepes 
  Solitaires, 
  ou 
  de 
  la 
  Tribu 
  des 
  Eume- 
  

   niens,' 
  par 
  H. 
  F. 
  deSaussure, 
  Cahix 
  1, 
  Paris, 
  1852; 
  by 
  the 
  Author. 
  ' 
  Entomographie 
  

   de 
  la 
  Riissie,' 
  par 
  G. 
  Fischer 
  de 
  Waldheim, 
  Tome 
  v. 
  : 
  Lepidopteres 
  — 
  Nymphalides, 
  

   Moscou, 
  1851 
  ; 
  by 
  the 
  Author. 
  A 
  box 
  of 
  Brazilian 
  insects; 
  by 
  Viscount 
  Goderich, 
  

   through 
  Mr. 
  Curtis. 
  A 
  box 
  of 
  British 
  Micro-Lepidoptera 
  ; 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Bedell. 
  

  

  The 
  Rev. 
  J. 
  F. 
  Dawson, 
  Woodlands, 
  near 
  Bedford, 
  was 
  elected 
  a 
  Member 
  ; 
  and 
  

   W. 
  Lancey, 
  Esq., 
  Westminster, 
  was 
  elected 
  a 
  Subscriber 
  to 
  the 
  Society. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Adam 
  White 
  exhibited 
  some 
  insects, 
  collected 
  by 
  Dr. 
  Joseph 
  Hooker 
  in 
  the 
  

   Himalaya, 
  directing 
  attention 
  to 
  the 
  Homopterous 
  Urophora 
  Hardwickii, 
  of 
  which 
  

   the 
  male 
  was 
  seen 
  to 
  possess 
  the 
  same 
  kind 
  of 
  hairy 
  tail-like 
  appendage 
  as 
  the 
  female, 
  

   in 
  which 
  sex 
  it 
  had 
  been 
  considered 
  to 
  be 
  the 
  ovipositor. 
  Mr. 
  White 
  remarked 
  that 
  

   the 
  Lepidopterous 
  genus 
  Trichura, 
  Hubner, 
  founded 
  on 
  the 
  Sphinx 
  coarctata, 
  Drurij 
  

   (Zygsna 
  caudata, 
  Fabr.), 
  had 
  a 
  somewhat 
  analogous 
  structure, 
  though 
  much 
  more 
  

   scaled. 
  He 
  also 
  pointed 
  out 
  Derepteryx 
  Hardwickii, 
  a 
  Nepalese 
  species 
  of 
  Coreidse, 
  

   apparently 
  a 
  male 
  specimen. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  White 
  also 
  exhibited 
  some 
  insects, 
  chiefly 
  Coleoptera, 
  collected 
  by 
  Dr. 
  Thomp- 
  

   son, 
  of 
  the 
  Hon. 
  East 
  India 
  Company's 
  Service, 
  in 
  Little 
  Thibet, 
  at 
  an 
  elevation 
  of 
  

   8,000 
  feet 
  above 
  the 
  level 
  of 
  the 
  sea 
  ; 
  among 
  which 
  Chrysomela 
  fastuosa, 
  Peryphus 
  

   littoralis, 
  Stenus 
  ater, 
  and 
  othei's, 
  were 
  identical 
  with 
  the 
  British 
  species. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  White 
  read 
  the 
  following 
  extracts 
  of 
  a 
  letter 
  from 
  J. 
  C. 
  Bowring, 
  Esq., 
  dated 
  

   Hong 
  Kong, 
  January 
  29, 
  1852 
  : 
  — 
  

  

  " 
  I 
  possess 
  in 
  all 
  about 
  fifty 
  Hong 
  Kong 
  Brachelytra, 
  chiefly 
  very 
  small 
  species, 
  

   and 
  the 
  only 
  peculiarly 
  interesting 
  form 
  among 
  them 
  is 
  an 
  insect 
  of 
  which 
  I 
  have 
  but 
  

   one 
  specimen, 
  which 
  I 
  captured 
  under 
  a 
  .stone 
  on 
  the 
  peak 
  of 
  Mount 
  Parker 
  ; 
  the 
  an- 
  

   tennae 
  are 
  pectinated 
  so 
  strongly 
  as 
  to 
  be 
  almost 
  flabellate. 
  I 
  have 
  not 
  duplicates 
  of 
  

   more 
  than 
  half-a-dozen 
  species, 
  although 
  I 
  collect 
  everything 
  I 
  can 
  lay 
  my 
  hands 
  on, 
  

   and 
  would 
  take 
  fifty 
  specimens 
  of 
  each 
  insect 
  if 
  I 
  could 
  get 
  them, 
  with 
  the 
  view 
  of 
  in- 
  

   creasing 
  my 
  general 
  collection 
  by 
  exchanging. 
  It 
  seems 
  strange 
  that 
  there 
  should 
  be 
  

   so 
  few 
  Brachelytra 
  from 
  China 
  known 
  in 
  Europe. 
  In 
  Erichson 
  (page 
  221), 
  Conurus 
  

   pubescens 
  seems 
  to 
  be 
  the 
  only 
  one 
  mentioned, 
  and 
  that 
  is 
  a 
  well 
  known 
  European 
  

   species. 
  

  

  " 
  I 
  have 
  found 
  many 
  new 
  Carabideous 
  insects 
  this 
  last 
  season, 
  and 
  have 
  now 
  about 
  

   eighty 
  species, 
  and 
  fourteen 
  Cicindels 
  ; 
  the 
  greater 
  part 
  of 
  these 
  are 
  so 
  rare 
  that 
  I 
  have 
  

   no 
  duplicates. 
  Dr. 
  Dubois, 
  of 
  the 
  French 
  frigate, 
  ' 
  Algerie,' 
  lately 
  found 
  a 
  fine 
  Sea- 
  

   rites 
  on 
  the 
  sands 
  of 
  the 
  mainland, 
  opposite 
  Hong 
  Kong 
  ; 
  I 
  have 
  searched 
  the 
  spot 
  

   well, 
  but 
  could 
  not 
  find 
  another 
  specimen. 
  I 
  discovered, 
  however, 
  a 
  very 
  pretty 
  little 
  

   Notoxus, 
  while 
  turning 
  over 
  the 
  drift 
  weed 
  on 
  the 
  shore. 
  

  

  " 
  I 
  have 
  never 
  met 
  with 
  any 
  more 
  Paussi 
  since 
  my 
  return 
  in 
  1848 
  ; 
  they 
  must 
  be 
  

   of 
  rare 
  occurrence 
  indeed, 
  as 
  I 
  keep 
  a 
  sharp 
  look-out 
  for 
  them.'' 
  

  

  The 
  President 
  informed 
  the 
  meeting 
  that 
  M. 
  Groue, 
  of 
  Marseilles, 
  was 
  about 
  to 
  

   make 
  an 
  entomological 
  tour 
  in 
  Sicily, 
  and 
  wished 
  to 
  enter 
  into 
  communication 
  with 
  

   entomologists 
  of 
  this 
  country, 
  with 
  a 
  view 
  to 
  the 
  exchange 
  or 
  other 
  disposal 
  of 
  his 
  

   Coleopterous 
  captures. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  W. 
  W. 
  Saunders 
  mentioned 
  that 
  M. 
  Jose 
  Apolinario 
  Nieto, 
  Orizava, 
  Mexico, 
  

  

  I 
  

  

  