284, Entomological Society. 
Drawings of two Indian species of Locusts, made in that country 
by Lieut. Edwards, M.E.S., were exhibited, and a memoir read by 
the Rev. F. W. Hope on the Asiatic species of that family, and by 
whom a large collection of nearly allied species from various localities 
was exhibited. 
- The species which for two successive years had ravaged India 
from one end to the other is regarded by Mr. Hope as undescribed, 
and of which he gives the following character :— : 
CEdipoda Edwardsii, Hope. Fusca, capite thorace pectore pedibus- 
que rubescentibus, elytris dilute fuscis, brunneo-maculatis, den- 
tibus rubris.—Long. corp. unc. 2, lin. 4. Long. tegm. singuli, 
unc. 2, lin. 6. 
A paper by Mr. Westwood, containing the description of a new 
genus of exotic Cimicide, was read. 
Stenotoma, Westw. Genus novum inter Coreidas locand um. 
Caput lobo antico porrecto bispinoso ; lateribus ante oculos bispi- 
nosis. Ocelli 2. Antenne articulo 2ndo clavato, 3tio ovali lato, 
4to ovali oblongo, precedenti minori. Prothorax lateribus acute 
spinosis. 
Stenotoma Desjardinsii, W. Lutea, fulvo parum variegata undique 
JSusco punctata; antennis fuscis, abdominis lateribus fusco et 
albido alternatim maculatis. Long. corp. lin. 3.—Hab. in Insula 
Mauritii. D. Desjardins. Mus. nostr. 
December 2.—G. Newport, Esq., President, in the Chair. 
* Mr. Desvignes exhibited a specimen of Coccinella lineata, Fab., 
now ascertained to be an extremely rare variety of C. ocedlata. 
Mr. Pelerin exhibited specimens of the New Zealand caterpillar 
and its parasitic C/avaria, already figured and described in the Trans- 
actions of the Society. 
Mr. Milton exhibited numerous specimens of Dipterous larve, evi- 
dently those of a moderate-sized Tipula, 852 individuals of which he 
had extracted, mostly alive, from the crop of a pheasant recently killed. 
Mr. Evans exhibited a numerous collection of New Holland insects, 
several being of new and interesting species. a 
Mr. Westwood exhibited the case formed by the larva of Porrec- 
taria vibicipenella (a species new to this country, discovered by Mr. 
Weaver in Worcestershire during the past season), and which he 
had received from the senator Van Heyden of Frankfort. Mr. Mar- 
shall stated that he had also obtained the cases of this species from 
Mr. Weaver, by whom the insect had been reared from the cater- 
pillar state. 
Mr. Westwood also exhibited a new genus of Carabide from Gui- 
nea, allied to the genus Morio, received from M. Westermann : also 
drawings of an allied new genus from Ceylon, in the collection of 
Mr. Melly, and of various other new genera of Coleoptera. 
Mr. I’. Bond exhibited a specimen of the caterpillar of Bombyx 
potatoria, entirely covered with a white fungus very similar to mus- 
cardine. 
