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18. went to Leiden with Gronov. and Mouschenbr. 
22. went to Amsterdam, stayed with prof. Burm. 
28. literee ad uxorem!. 
29. sent to press Bibliotheca Botanica®. 
(AUGUST.) 
12. (1. old style) received a bill of exchange for 200 Dollar silvercoin 
from Sohlberg. 
13. (2. 0. s.) went to Cliffort. 
14. (3. 0. s.) returned home. 
17. (6. 0. s.) went to Leiden. 
19. (8. 0. s.) arrived at Amsterdam. 
(18.) Appointed Praefectus Horti Cliffortiani. 
\9. wrote to Inspector Sohlberg, Browall (and) S. L. M. 
(SEPTEMBER.) 
13. took charge of preefecturam horti Cliffort. 
at (16-17. 0. s.) hora 1 noctis Artedius was drowned at Am- 
28. sterdam. 
(DECEMBER.) 
13. (2. 0.8.) Promotio cum Kappa Lugduni3, Concluded the 
printing of Systema Nat.# 
ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
July 25, 1848.—William Yarrell, Esq., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The following papers were read :— 
1. DescriIpTION OF A NEW GENUS AND SPECIES OF SATYRID#, 
By W. Hewirson, Esa. 
The genus Corades, which Mr. E. Doubleday has named and kindly 
characterized for me, comprises but few species of butterflies, most 
of which are of recent occurrence. They are from the mountainous 
districts of Columbia and Venezuela, where, like our European Hip- 
parchias of the same family, they delight in the alpine districts. 
They are remarkable for having the anal angle of the lower wings 
more or less produced into a tail. 
Genus Corapss, Boisd. MSS. 
Head of moderate width, hairy; maxille about two-thirds the 
length of the body, rather slender. Labial palpi porrect, ascending, 
longer than the head, clothed with hairs and scales, the scales at the 
1 Jocose ita dixit. Cic. 
2 Left the press only in 1736 at Amsterdam, small 8vo. 
3 Cappa (medieval Latin), doctor’s gown. See Du Fresne, Gloss. Lat. i. 
p- 856, et Gloss. Gree. p. 584. Sperling ad Testam. Absolonis, p. 105. 
4 The printing finished. This editio princeps, which is very rare in 
Sweden, has the following title: Caroli Linnzi Systema Natura, sive Regna 
tria Naturze, systematice proposita per Classes, Ordines, Genera, et Species. 
Lugd. Bat. ap. Haak, 1735. Fol. maj.—14 pages. The original manuscript 
is preserved at the Carolinska Institut, at Stockholm. Comp. Beckman’s 
Minnen (Recollections), p. 112. 
