208 Entomological Society. 
the Circine facial disc in the present bird, which is I believe new, 
and belongs to Buteo proper and not to Circus. 
Buteo plumipes, mihi.—Throughout of a uniform dusky brown, 
as in the moor buzzard; region of the lores only albescent; cere 
and legs greenish yellow; Dill blue, with black tips and talons; tail 
very vaguely rayed with a paler shade of colour and wings inter- 
nally. Of slender make, and with long and acute talons, whereas 
* the white head is of very robust make, and has less acute but stronger 
talons. This is in make as in colours, a Circus; that, a buzzard 
proper or an eagle. In plumipes the tarse is scutellate before and 
behind, reticulate to the sides and at base, and two-thirds of the 
acropodia likewise are reticulate. The cere is large in both, and in 
both the nares are longitudinally cleft and irregularly ovoid in form. 
The one passes towards Buteo from Circus, the other towards Aguila 
from Buteo. Length (feem.), 194 inches; bill, 14; tail, 9; tarse, 3; 
central toe and nail, 2; hind, 14. Procured in the central hilly re- 
gion. Manners not noted. 
ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
October 2nd, 1843.—George Newport, Esq., President, in the Chair. 
Captain Parry exhibited a box of Coleopterous insects from Co- 
lombia, including Megasoma Elephas, a curious genus allied to Me- 
galopus, and another apparently allied to Ancistrosoma. 
Mr. Westwood exhibited a gynandromorphous specimen of En- 
dromis versicolor from the collection of Dr. Becker, the antennz and 
wings on the left-hand side being masculine, and those of the right 
side being female. 
The Rev. F. W. Hope exhibited a specimen of the larva of Acilius 
voided by a boy at Tunbridge Wells. 
The following memoirs were read :— 
“Description of new species of exotic Coleoptera.” By the Rev. 
F. W. Hope, F.R.S. 
Lucanus Parryi, Hope. Niger nitidus, mandibulis longitudine capite 
equalibus, apicibus acutis supra dentatis ; elytris glabris ; tibiis 
anticis externe serratis, posticis unispinosis. Long. corp. lin. 
163; lat. lin. 54. <Affinis L. nepalensi, Hope-—Hab. in Agro 
Nepalensi. Mus. Parry. 
Lucanus Vitulus, Dejean (ined.) 2. Niger nitidus glaber, man- 
dibulis brevibus acutis ; thorace marginato, angulis anticis haud 
productis, posticis partun rotundatis ; tibiis anticis extern? denti- 
culatis, posticis 4 in medio unispinosis. Long. corp. lin. 16; lat. 
lin. 6.—Hab. in Java. Mus. Buquet. 
Lucanus (Hexarthrius) Buquettii, Hope. Niger, mandibulis exsertis 
arcuatis, apicibus 2-furcatis, introrsum crenatis unidentatis den- 
teque majori fer? basali; capite thoraceque scabriusculis ; tibiis 
intermediis 1-spinosis, posticis 2 inermibus. Long. corp. lin. 35 ; 
lat. lin. 9.—Hab. in Jaya. Mus. Buquet. 
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