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Thyatira derasa and Batis, Alcis roboraria, conversaria and sericcaria, 
Lithosia helvola 8 and quadra, Fumea nitida, Cledeobia albisirigalis, &c. 
-Mr. Westwood exhibited a specimen of Serropalpus striatus, a 
beetle not hitherto noticed as British, which he had received from 
Mr. Plant of Leicester, by whom it had been recently obtained in 
that neighbourhood. 
The following memoirs were read :— 
Notice of the occurrence of a species of Sirer in a wooden build- 
ing long erected,’ communicated by Sir W. Clinton and the Bishop 
of Norwich to Mr. Spence. | 
The wood-work of a conservatory belonging to Sir W. Clinton, 
which had been erected ten years, having been observed to be under- 
going what appeared to be the dry-rot, it was partially taken down, 
and in the interior of one of the rafters of close-grained Memel deal, 
several pup of an insect, supposed to be a foreign species of Sirex, 
were discovered within burrows filled with wood-dust, and, in the 
parts where the pup were observed, lined with the fragments of 
wings and other parts of the perfect insect ; and as no external ori- 
fice was detected, it is supposed that the insect proceeded from eggs 
laid in the rough timber before it was framed, and that there had 
been a succession of them. ‘The insect was not however forwarded 
for inspection, so that doubts must be entertained both as to its 
species and even family, as the account seems in some respects to 
agree with the habits of some of the wood-boring species of the Lin- 
hean genus Sphez. 
“Notices sur quelques Zoologistes Néapolitains morts.” By 
Signor Costa of Naples. Communicated with a translation by the 
Rev. F. W. Hope, F.R.S. &c. 
~ Observations on the Fossil Insects of Aix in Provence, with de- 
scriptions of three species.” By the Rev. F. W. Hope, F.R.S. &c. 
~ In this paper the author gives a list of 113 genera of insects found 
in the Aix formation, with observations derived from a consideration 
of their habits whilst living as connected with their deposit ; and de- 
scribes three new species, namely, Balaninus Barthelemyi, Rhynchenus 
Solieri and Corizus Boyeri. 
** Descriptions of two new exotic Hemiptera in the cabinet of the 
British Museum.” By Mr. Westwood. 
Evumenores, Westw. (gen. nov. Amauro Burm. affine). Corpus 
oblongum, capite lato anticé cornubus duobus planis truncatis ; 
antennis satis.crassis 4-articulatis articulo 2do reliquis longior?, 
4to ovali parvo ; prothorace antice lateribus parallelis membrana- 
que hemelytrorum valde areolata. 
Eumenotes obscura, Westw. Obscure brunnea punctata apice scu- 
telli rufescenti ; membrana apicali hemelytrorum nigricanti, pro- 
noti margine postico transverso deflero; abdominis lateribus sub- 
serratis. Long. corp. lin. 4.—In Mus. Britann. 
-Puysoperrs, Westw. (gen. nov. Enicocephalo W. affine). Ca- 
put sub-bipartitum ; antennis gracilibus 4-articulatis, articulo 
- 2do longiori, 4to precedenti vix tenwort; prothorax latissimus 
lateribus inflato-rotundatis pone medium consirictus, hemelytrorum 
corio parvo, membrana maxima area magna media. 
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