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and Mr. S. Stevens a number of minute Coleoptera, collected from 

 moss during the preceding winter. 



The Rev. F. W. Hope exhibited a specimen of a new and coarse 

 kind of white silk, communicated by Mr. Strachan. He also read 

 some extracts from a letter received by him from Mr. Fortnum, Corr. 

 Mem. E.S. at Adelaide, in South Australia, containing many ob- 

 servations on the entomology of that district. 



Mr. Westwood exliibited specimens of Uropoda vegetans which had 

 been found in countless multitudes on the surface of the ground, in 

 a cucumber frame, and which attached themselves to a beetle intro- 

 duced into the frame. 



The following memoirs were read : — 



Continuation of a memoir on the Chrysomelida of New Holland 

 allied to Cryptocephalus. By W. W. Saunders, Esq., President, con- 

 taining detailed descriptions of the following insects : — 



OcHROsoppis, n. g., divided from Anodonta. Eyes reniform. 

 Antennce as long as the body, W-jointed ; \st joint robust, 

 clavate ; 2nd small, obconic ; Srd, 4th and 5th of nearly equal 

 length ; 4th shortest, the remainder gradually decreasing in size. 

 Thorax rounded in front, transverse, nearly as broad as the elytra. 

 Elytra half as long again as broad. Legs moderate. Colour pale. 



Ochrosopsis vermicularis. Reddish-brotvn ; thorax and elytra ful- 

 vous, 7'ugose, with the impressed punctures black, those on the 

 elytra forming irregular striec ; legs light rufous brown. Length 

 -^^ inch. — Hab. New Holland. Mus. Hope. 



Ochrosopsis australis. Head ochre-yellow ; antennce dusky brown ; 

 thorax shining reddish broivn, ivith a longitudinal band and two 

 faint oblique bands of fulvous, with large black impressions ; scu- 

 tellum dark broicn ; elytra fulvous, with large irregular impres- 

 sions ; beneath jyale ochre-yelloiv ; legs dusky fulvous. Length g^^j 

 inch. — Hab. Swan River. Mus. Hope. 



Ochrosopsis erosa. Head ochre-yellow ; antenna black ; thorax 

 shining fulvous, with coarse black impressions forming ttvo black- 

 ish patches ; scutellum black; elytra pale ochre-yellow, with deep 

 and irregular black punctures, which are occasionally confluent ; 

 legs light reddish brown. Length ^ inch. — Hab. Swan River. 

 Mus. Hope. 



Ochrosopsis melanocephala. Head ochre-yellow, with the vertex 

 and a central line black ; antenna black ; thorax ochre-yellow, with 

 a small oblong patch near the hinder angles, and a large triangular 

 patch on each side in front black and punctured; scutellum 

 black ; elytra shining ochre-yellow, with dark brown punctures ; 

 legs reddish brown ; tips of femora, tibia and tarsi black. Length 

 -^ inch. — Hab. New Holland. Mus. Hope. 



Aporocera chalybea. Head dark chestnut -brown, mouth ochre ; 

 antenna black ; thorax pitchy black, with och'eous margins 

 deeply punctured ; scutellum black; elytra shining chalybeate blue, 

 deeply punctured; legs pale ochre-yelloio, with the tips of the 

 tibia arid tarsi black. Length ^ inch.— Hab. Port Essington. 

 Mus. Hope. 



