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(I'lqufi punrtntttm ; eh/tris hicarinatis, pronotn cannli domali sitb- 

 o/isolrto. Long. corp. liu i5J. — Hab. Insula Guadoloupc. 



^^gidiuni Hocdulus, Uej. Cat. Nit/rum, nil idissimum ; pronoto ,$ 

 in medio vitldr dcpresso-punctato, htteribus angulalo-ehvatis, 

 tnberculoque frontcdi in utroqiie sexu armato, ? impressione seu 

 canali Into, min'imc profunda, frontali, ehjtris nuigis rotundatis 

 ct punctutis, punctis in strias irreffulares dispositis. Long. corp. 

 lin. 5-4. — Hab. Brasilia. 



yEgidium .'' Guianense, W. Breve convexum, castanrum, pronoio 

 pastier parmn anyuslato ; mandibulis extus cornu obtvso armatis. 

 Long. Corp. lin. 4^. — Hab. Guiana. 



Orphnus Mysoriensis, W. Bruniieus seu nigro-piceus, tuberculo 

 elevuta in medio marginis piostici prothoracis ; elijtris irreguluriter 

 punctatis. Long. corp. lin. 5-4-^. — Hab. India orientuli, Mysore. 



Orphnus picinus, W. Picco-niger, nitidus ; capite ^ cornu erecto, 

 prathoraccque excavatione magna media, murgine postico margi- 

 nato ; ehjtris striis irrcgularibus, parhm impressis. Long. corp. 

 lin. 4|^-4. — Hab. India orientali, Bombay. 



Or])hnus impressus, W. Piceus vel rufo-piceus, capite postice in 

 $ tuberculo parvo armato pronotoque anticc excavatione trian- 

 gulari instructo. Long. corp. lin. 3^-4. — Hab. India orientali 

 ccntrali. 



Orphnus nanus, W. Niger nut castaneus, nitidus, oblongus ; capite 

 (J cornu brevi, erecto, et pronoto semicirculariter excavuto, exca- 

 vatione liaud ultra medium pronoti extcnsa, lateribusque vix elevatis 

 et in tuberculo tcrminatis ; capite pronotoque vage punctatis, ely- 

 trisque irrcgulariter striatis, punctisque majoribus in strias rudes 

 dispositis. Long. corp. lin. '2|. — Hab. India orientali ccntrali. 



Orphnus Meleagris, Dej. Cat. (ined.) Latus, castaneo-f ulcus ; ely- 

 tris stria sufurali punctisque irrcgularibus, capite cornu clevato, 

 conico, frontali pronotoque valdi excavate, lateribus conico-elevatis, 

 versus caput rotundatis. Long, coi-j). lin. 5. — Hab. Senegallia. 



June 4th. — George Newport, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. S. Stevens exhibited specimens of the larvre of Lcucania stra- 

 minea {Nonagria Vectis, Curt.), tolerably well figured by Freyer, 

 which he had detected in the Hammersmith marshes feeding on the 

 leaves of reeds, and which spin an external web in which they un- 

 dergo their transformations ; also a very large living British species 

 of water-mite {llydrachna geographica). 



Mr. Evans exhibited a specimen of the rare Agrotis puta, captured 

 on the evening of the meeting, in the Wandsworth road. 



Captain F. Parry exhibited a box of Coleoptera from New Hol- 

 land, Africa and India, including a new and very flat Lamellicorn 

 insect belonging to the family Cetoniidce, but having someuhat the 

 form of Plalijgenia, with singular-shaped middle feet, from tropical 

 Africa. 



Mr. Saunders exhibited sj)ecimens of a species of Polydcsmus and 

 of lulus pulchcllus, which he had found extremely destructive at the 

 roots of plants in gardens. The latter insect was stated b)'' Mr. 



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