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short, with a straight hind-border ; fourth, fifth and sixth of mode- 

 rate size, with straight hind-borders ; seventh extremely small : 

 middle-legs not dilated. 



In other characters it resembles the male. 



Found by Mr. Haliday with the (^ on mountain heaths near Belfast, 

 both pretty common. 



Ericydnus ^mnestus, fem. Viridis, antennis nigris, ahdomine basi 

 pedibusque rufis, alis vix ullis. 



Head and chest dark green, shining, convex, very finely sha- 

 greened : head broader than the chest ; crown large ; front convex : 

 eyes and eyelets dark red : feelers black, clavate, much shorter than 

 the body; first joint long, slender; second long cup- shaped; third 

 and following joints to the ninth successively shorter and broader ; 

 tenth, eleventh and twelfth joints forming a spindle-shaped club 

 which is more than twice the length of the ninth joint : chest ellip- 

 tical : fore -chest short, narrower in front: scutum of the middle- 

 chest short and broad ; scutellum obconical : abdomen sessile, con- 

 vex, dark green, obconical, pale red towards the base, narrower and 

 much shorter than the chest ; there are a few hairs towards the tip 

 which is deeply keeled beneath : legs pale red ; middle legs dilated 

 as usual, their shanks armed with long spines ; hind- shanks rather 

 dark ; tips of the feet brown : wings rudimentary. Length of the 

 body § line. E. strigosus $ ? 



Ireland. In Mr. Haliday 's collection. 



PROCEEDINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES. 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Feb. 27, 1849.— William Yarrell, Esq., Vice-President, in the Chair. 

 The following papers were read : — 



1. Description of two new species of Cypr^ea. 

 By John S. Gaskoin. 

 Cypr^a cribellum. Cyp. testa subcylindricdy Icevi, albd, bruneo 

 omnino obtectd, prceter maculis numerosisy testa concoloribuSy 

 fere circularibus, incequalibus et irregulariter dispensatis ; mar- 

 ginibus bruneo-rufescente punctatis ; basi subplanulatd, albd ; 

 aperturd laid, prcecipue antice ; columelld ventricosiusculd ; den- 

 tibus labii prominentibuSy cjequalibus, circa quindecim ; dentibus 

 columellaribus subobsoletis {jprceter dente prhno) circa duodecim; 

 dente prima majus prominent e deinde antice est incisura pro- 

 funda ; sulco columellari nullo, extremita tibus anticis leviter 

 productis, externh valde convergente ; canali lato et profunda ; 

 extremitatibus posticis obtusis ; canali postico lato, aperturd 

 recte continuo ; margine externa incrassato ; spird late umbili- 

 catd. 

 Shell subcylindrical, smooth, white, covered by a dark-brown coat- 

 ing except at numerous nearly circular white spots, of unequal sizes 

 and irregular distribution, thus leaving at those spots the colour of the 



