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C. Superior wings broad and rounded at the apex. 



28. radiatus Leach. 



19 to 22 lines: pale dirty ochre; superior wings with brown spots and 

 lines variegating the cells, the transverse nervures surrounded with the 

 same colour, the posterior margin brown, with a long pale stripe down each 

 cell, with a brown line in the centre. 



29. hieroglyphicus Curt. 



2 inches : ochreous ; superior wings with numerous brown markings (ex- 

 cepting a broad portion next the costa) forming irregular pale spots. 



30. Vibex Curt. 



14 to 20 lines : ochreous ; superior wings mottled with pale brown, except- 

 ing the costa, forming innumerable ochre dots. 



31. latipennis Curt. 



19 lines : pale ochreous, silky ; superior wings with the edges of the nervures 

 very pale fuscous, forming indistinct rays towards the apex. 



32. stellatus Curt. 



16 to 17 lines: superior wings very pubescent fuscous ochre, with pale 

 lines at the base and centre of the discoidal nervures, 2 or 3 small spots 

 at the base, a bilobed one near the centre, 2 dots by the transverse ner- 

 vures and a curved series of pale streaks beyond them ; inferior wings 

 fuscous ochreous, very pale at the base. 



D. Wings short, rough or hispid. 



33. brevipennis Curt. 



1 1 lines : superior wings scabrous tawny ochre, a pale dot at the base of 

 the third marginal cell, another below the centre, and a third near it 

 towards the posterior angle, posterior edge dark, dotted pale. 



34. villosus Fab. 



8 to 11 lines : superior wings hispid, being clothed with bristly erect hairs, 

 ochreous brown, with a pale dot on the inferior margin towards the poste- 

 rior angle and another above it. 



[To be continued.] 



XXVII. Proceedings of Learned Societies. 



ROYAL SOCIETY. 

 1833. A PAPER was read, entitled, "Historical Notice to the 



Nov. 21. — -t*- supposed Identity of the large mass of Meteoric 

 Iron now in the British Museum, with the celebrated Otumpa Iron 

 described by Rubin de Celis, in the Philosophical Transactions for 

 1786." Communicated in a letter from Woodbine Parish, jun., Esq., 

 F.R.S., to Charles Konig, Esq., Foreign Secretary of the Royal So- 

 ciety. 



The mass of iron in question was transmitted to Buenos Ayres, for 

 the purpose of being manufactured into fire-arms, at the period when 

 the people of that country declared themselves independent of Spain ; 

 but a supply of arms having in the meanwhile arrived, it was depo- 

 sited in the Arsenal, and afterwards given to Mr. Parish, who trans- 

 mitted it to England. Its identity with the mass of iron described by 

 De Celis, though probable, is not exactly determined. 



A paper was also read, entitled, " Observations of Nebula; and 



