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Mr. Fortnum exhibited two species of Locusta captured near Frankfort, from one 

 of which a Gordius had extruded, and from the other a dipterous larva, both of which 

 he also exhibited. 



The following description, by Mr. Newman, of Panorpa ruficeps, a new species 

 from New Holland, was then read. 



Panorpa ruficeps. 



Nigra, capite femoribusque ferrugineis ; alis fuscescentibus immaculatis. (Alarum 

 latitudo 1*4 unc. Corporis longitudo, 6 unc). 



Antenna; much longer than the body, slender, gradually tapering to the apex, 57- 

 jointed, the basal joint stout, its length and breadth nearly equal ; the second, half as 

 large as the first, its length and breadth also equal ; the third, longer than the second 

 and much narrower; the basal, second, and half the third joint are ferruginous, the 

 remainder black : every joint, from the third to the fifty -sixth inclusive, has a short 

 apical bristle on each side, and all of them are clothed with a short velvety down : the 

 head, including the rostrum, is ferruginous excepting the eyes, a triangular spot which 

 encloses the ocelli and the apex of the palpi, all of which are black. Thorax, abdomen, 

 tibiae and tarsi, black : coxa; and femora ferruginous, except the apices of the latter 

 which are blackish. Wings immaculate, hyaline, suffused uniformly with brown, 

 which is slightly darker on the nervures and stigmata. 



Inhabits New Holland. The only specimen I have seen was taken at Port Philip, 

 by Edmund Thomas Higgins, Esq., to whom I am indebted for the opportunity of 

 describing it. The specimen will be deposited in the British Museum. 



Some remarks by Mr. S. S. Saunders were then read, on the sense in which Dr. 

 Siebold had used the words "banchseite" and " riickenseite," in his observations on 

 the larva; of Stylopidae. 



Mr. Douglas then read the following description of a new species of Tineida?. 



YPSOLOPHUS ? PALUSTRELLUS. 



Alse anticse luteo-albida;, lineis ad margines radiatis punclisque duobus pone 

 medium nigris. Ala; postica? griseag, ciliis lutescentibus. 



Expansion of wings 9 lines. 



Head and thorax ashy, with a black line continued on the centre of each ; palpi 

 ashy, second joint fuscous beneath, terminal joint faintly darker at the apex ; antenna; 

 fuscous. Anterior wings yellowish white, covered with black lines which radiate from 

 the centre to the costa and inferior margin, and two black dots beyond the middle. 

 Posterior wings griseous with luteous cilia. 



This appears to be a species oscillant between Ypsolophus and Gelechia ; by its 

 palpi, however, the second joint of which is clothed with long porrected scales, it 

 seems to be more related to the former than the latter genus. 



Two specimens taken at Yaxley, one in Mr. Doubleday's, the other in Mr. Allis's 

 ■collection. 



He also read a continuation of his memoir on the British species of the genus 

 Gelechia, including the following species, viz., mulinella, Tis. (R. interrupta, Haw., 

 non H.) ; namferella, Z. (Tinea Knockeella, Haw.), T. miscella, Hate. (Micro- 

 setia aurofasciella, St.) ; fugitivella, Z. (fugacella, Sta., non Z.) ; ligulella, W. V. 

 (albistrigella, St.?); vorticella, Z., a species closely allied to ligulella; Hubneri, 

 Haw. (non granella, H.) ; senectella, Z., a small dark species somewhat resembling 



