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Hab. Island of Ticao, Philippines (found under stones at low 
water) ; Cuming. 
The ridges of this very delicate and pretty shell are slightly nodu- 
lous, and prickly on the angle. 
Mirra patuta. Mitr. testd ovatd, tenuiculd, ventricosiusculd, le- 
vigatd ; cinered, fusco hic illic variegatd et nebulatd ; columella 
quadriplicatd ; aperturd ampld ; labro tenui, superne sinuato. 
Conch. Icon., Mitra, pl. 39. f. 333. 
Hab. ? 
Very distinct from any form of the genus I have met with. 
Mirra atveotus. Mitr. testd abbreviato-ovatd, spire suturis pro- 
Sunde impressis ; longitudinaliter subtiliter plicato-costatd, bast 
transversim sulcatd ; anfractibus inferné aterrimis, superné albis, 
nigro tessellatis ; columelld quadriplicata. 
Conch. Icon., Mitra, pl. 39. f. 354. 
Hab. ? 
A characteristic tessellated species, from the collection of Thomas 
Norris, Esq. 
ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
January Ist, 1844.—The President in the Chair. 
An extract from a letter addressed by the Rev. Mr. Savage to the 
Rev. F. W. Hope was read, giving an account of the capture ofa 
new species of Goliath Beetle on the west coast of Africa, Mecyno- 
rhina Savagit (Harris, Journ. of Boston Nat. Hist. Soc. vol. iv. pl. 21; 
Westw. Arc. Ent. ii. pl. 81. f. 1, 2). 
Extracts were also read from two letters addressed to Mr. Hope by 
C. D. E. Fortnum, Esq., giving some account of the entomology in the 
neighbourhood of Port Adelaide, and mentioning some particulars 
respecting the reproduction of the limbs in a species of Phasmide, 
Diura violascens, Gray, a larva of which (about one inch long and 
having much the appearance of a Bacillus) had its left intermediate 
leg broken off when captured. It fed on the young leaves of the gum- 
tree, Eucalyptus, and grew very fast. On the first moult after the 
accident a small leg appeared on the old stump, but with a withered 
appearance, and apparently the joints were not formed. At the se- 
cond moult the leg had grown to half its natural size, with all the 
joints perfect. The third moulting produced the pupa with the leg 
about two-thirds of the original size. On the change to the imago 
the limb had regained its full size. Mr. Fortnum adds, that the 
young Phasmide invariably eat the old skin after moulting. He also 
mentions the capture of aspecies of Mantispa and one of Ascalaphus. 
In a subsequent communication he mentions the capture of several 
apparently new species of Phasmide, and states that Diura violascens 
and roseipennis are the sexes of the same species, having reared several 
from the larva. He had collected a great many species of ants, and 
several new predaceous beetles (including a beautiful Harpalus with 
