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ocellis tribus, posticis quiuque rufis, pupilla alba iride tenui nigra, slrigisque 

 duabus parallelis vix angulatis prope marginein apicalem. Mas. 



Hab. — Shanghai, China, D. Fortune. 



In Mus. Britann. 



Drusilla Myl^echa, Westwoocl. 



D. alis niveis, omnium utrinque costa nigricantis posticis subtus ocellis duobus 

 magnis aequalibus nigris pupilla minima alba circulo latiori fulvo, alteroque 

 tenui nigro circumcinctis, capite thoraceque subtus nigvis ; palpis fulvis ; ab- 

 domine lutescenti. Mas et foem. 



Hab. in Insulis Louissiadis maris Indici, D. Mac Gillivray. 



In Mus. Britann. 



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The President also read ' Descriptions of Three New Genera of Exotic Coleoptera 

 remarkable for possessing an external resemblance to groups to which they do not 

 belong.' The first species, Paromia Doicoides, from Columbia, unique in the cabinet 

 of M. Reich, in Paris, has in fact been mistaken for a small species of Lucanidae, to 

 which family, however, it only bears a relation of analogy, its affinity being to the 

 genus Ips. The second species, Cossyphotles Wollastoni, of which only a single spe- 

 cimen was found by Mr. Wollaston, under a stone, at Madeira, has a very close primA 

 facie resemblance to the heteromerous genus Cossyphus ; while it is among the genera 

 originally placed by Latreille among the Xylophaga, but separated therefrom bv Mac- 

 Leay and introduced among the Necrophaga, that we must look for its true relations. 

 The third species, Euchasta Scaritides, in his own collection, from New Zealand, re- 

 markable for the long setae on its sides, appears by its slender filiform antennae and 

 general form to belong to the Scaritidae ; but it is really most nearly related to 

 Trogosita. 



Mr. Stainton exhibited a species of Tineidae, forming the type of a new genus very 

 near to Pterolonche of Zeller ; he proposed to call the insect Limnaecia Phragmitella. 

 It was captured by Mr. S. Stevens, in the marshes at Hammersmith, and a specimen 

 is in the collection of Mr. Shepherd. 



Mr. Stainton exhibited, on the part of Mr. Logan, a drawing of a new species 

 of Lithocolletis ; and read a description of the insect under the name of L. nigrescen- 

 tella, Logan. 



M. Stainton also exhibited a new Tinea, taken flying in the streets of Liverpool, 

 by Mr. C. S. Gregson. Mr. Stainton proposed for it the name of pallescentella. 



April 7th, 1851. 

 J. O. Westwood, Esq., President, in the chair. 



The following donations were announced, and thanks ordered to be given to the 

 donors thereof. — ' The Zoologist' for April, by the Editor. 'Hints on the History 

 and Management of the Honey-bee. By Edward Bevan, M.D. ' Presented by 

 the author. A Portrait of the Rev. W. Kirby, on large paper ; by W. Spence, Esq. 



