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short, with a straight hind-border ; fourth, fifth and sixth of mode- 
rate size, with straight hind-borders; seventh extremely small : 
middle-legs not dilated. 
In other characters it resembles the male. 
Found by Mr. Haliday with the ¢ on mountain heaths near Belfast, 
both pretty common. 
Ericydnus Aimnestus, fem. Viridis, antennis nigris, abdomine basi 
pedibusque rufis, alis vie ullis. 
Head and chest dark green, shining, convex, very finely sha- 
greened : head broader than the chest; crown large ; front convex : 
eyes and eyelets dark red: feelers black, clavate, much shorter than 
the body; first joint long, slender; second long cup-shaped ; third 
and following joints to the ninth successively shorter and broader ; 
tenth, eleventh and twelfth joints forming a spindle-shaped club 
which is more than twice the length of the ninth joint : chest ellip- 
tical: fore-chest short, narrower in front: scutum of the middle- 
chest short and broad ; scutellum obconical: abdomen sessile, con- 
vex, dark green, obconical, pale red towards the base, narrower and 
much shorter than the chest; there are a few hairs towards the tip 
which is deeply keeled beneath: legs pale red; middle legs dilated 
as usual, their shanks armed with long spines; hind-shanks rather 
dark; tips of the feet brown: wings rudimentary. Length of the 
body 2 line. L£. strigosus 2? 
Ireland. In Mr. Haliday’s collection. 
PROCEEDINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES. 
J ZOOLOGIGAL SOCIETY. 
Feb. 27, 1849.— William Yarrell, Esq., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The following papers were read :— 
1. DESCRIPTION OF TWO NEW SPECIES OF CYPRHA. 
By Joun S. GAsKOIN. 
CypR2ZA CRIBELLUM. Cyp. testd subcylindricd, levi, albd, bruneo 
omnino obtectd, preter maculis numerosis, testd concoloribus, 
Sere circularibus, inequalibus et irregulariter dispensatis ; mar- 
ginibus bruneo-rufescente punctatis ; basi subplanulatd, albd ; 
aperturd latd, precipue antice ; columelld ventricosiusculd ; den- 
tibus labit prominentibus, equalibus, circa quindecim ; dentibus 
columellaribus subobsoletis (preter dente primo) circa duodecim; 
dente primo majus prominente deinde anticé est incisura pro- 
funda; sulco columellari nullo, extremitatibus anticis leviter 
productis, externé valdé convergente ; canali lato et profundo ; 
extremitatibus posticis obtusis ; canali postico lato, aperturd 
recté continuo; margine externo incrassato; spird laté umbili- 
cata. 
Shell subcylindrical, smooth, white, covered by a dark-brown coat- 
ing except at numerous nearly circular white spots, of unequal sizes 
and irregular distribution, thus leaving at those spots the colour of the 
