300 Entomological Society. 



Ungues tarsorum acuti hasi tantum serrulati, jmlvillo magno in- 

 termedio. 



1 . Euphania luteola. Fulva, antennis nigris basi fulvis, meso- et 

 metathorace piceis ad latera ritfescentibus , abdominepiceo, segmen- 

 tis 4 apiculibus fulvis j^edibus piceis, fei7io7-ibus fulvis, alis pallide 

 luteis, ad basin magis fulvis, venis discoidalibus fuscis, basalibus 



fulvis, stigmate fusco. Exp. alar. lin. 15^. Habitat .'' In 



Mus. Britann. 



Merope, Newman. 



Merope tuber, N. in Ent. Mag., v. 180. Habitat " Trenton 

 Falls," Amer. septentr. 



BiTTAcus, LatreiUe. 



1. B. affinis, W. Testaceus, abdominis apice tarsisque posticis 

 obscurioribus, alis pallide fuscescentibus, stigmate fusco, venisque 

 parumfusco-tinctis. Exp. alar. lin. 19^. Habitat in Brasilia. 



2. B. punctiger.W. Fulvescens, femoribiis setis paucis nigris e guttis 

 minutis fuscis prodeuntibus, armatis ; alis paullu latioribus nitidis 

 flavido-hyalinis, stigmate fere concolori guttisque numerosis paullo 

 obscurioribus. Exp. alar, lin, 20. Habitat in Georgia Americse. 



3. B. pallldipennis, "W. Totus fulvo-luteus, tibiarum summo apice 

 nigricanti, alis pallidissime luteis, unicoloribus , stigmate vix ob- 

 scuriori. Exp. alar. lin. 16^. Habitat ? 



4. B. pilicomis,W. Pallide fusco-luteus, pedibus lutescentibus, alis 

 hyalinis, stigmate vix colorato, antennis longe pilosis. Exp. alar, 

 lin. 18^. Habitat in America septentr. D. Doubleday. 



June 7th. — W. W. Saunders, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



The Rev. F. W. Hope exhibited a variety of new and splendid Co- 

 leopterous insects obtained by him during a recent visit to Paris. He 

 also exhibited a piece of iron-stone, forwarded by Wm. Stephenson, 

 Esq., Surgeon, Donnington, exhibiting impressions somewhat resem- 

 bling those of the wing of a butterfly, but which the President con- 

 sidered to be the leaf of one of the fossil ferns {Holopteris .''), 



the veins being quite unhke those of any insect. 



Mr. S. Stevens exhibited a small collection of Indian Coleoptera 

 which he had recentlj'' acquired, including three species of Paussida, 

 Platyrhopalus denticornis, P. aplustifer, W., and a new species, since 

 described byMr. Westwood in the Proceedings of the Linneean Society 

 under the name of Paussus Stevensii. Mr. Stevens also exhibited 

 living specimens of several rare British Coleoptera, recently taken in 

 Hainault Forest, namely, Leptura scutellata, Calosoma Inquisitor, 

 Elater balteatus, &c. He also brought for distribution amongst the 

 Members a number of living specimens of Trichius nobilis. 



Mr. Marshall exhibited a portion of the comb of the honey-bee 

 entirely destroyed by the larva of Achroia alvearia, which had now 

 arrived at the perfect state, and observed, that the cocoons, when first 

 formed, are of a pure white silk, but are soon afterwards found to be 

 coated over with black particles of excrement. He noticed the diffi- 

 culty which he experienced to account for this, unless, as lie believed 



