Entomological Society. 481 
March 2nd.—The Rev. F. W. Hope, President, in the Chair. 
A quantity of silk cocoons from the Cape of Good Hope was pre- 
sented by Mr. Dukeford, who requested information as to the possi- 
bility of their being serviceably employed in the silk trade. 
Mr. Bainbridge exhibited a monstrous Lucanus Cervus, one of the 
mandibles of which was strangely distorted. 
Mr. Shuckard exhibited a specimen of Macropis labiata, a genus 
of bees recently described by M. L. Dufour in the ‘ Annales de la 
Société Entomologique de France,’ and which had been captured (for 
the first time in this sing by Mr. Walton in the New Forest, 
near Lyndhurst. 
The following memoirs were read : 
Descriptions of new species of Cetoniade in the collection of the 
Rey. F. W. Hope, with observations on the genus Osmoderma. By 
Mr. W. Bainbridge. 
After noticing the doubts which exist relative to the true locality of 
Osmoderma scabrum, and dividing that genus into two sections from 
‘the difference in the sculpturing of the elytra, the following species 
are described :— 
Osmoderma Beauvoisii, B. Nigrum, clypeo convexo, thorace for 
tissime punctato seu varioloso lateribus subserratis, lined medid 
longitudinali parum impressd; elytris thorace multo latioribus, 
striis fortiter insculptis ; corpore subtus nigro. Long. corp. 
lin. 10. Inhabits A‘quinoctial Africa. 
Osmoderma scabrum, H. Cupreo-eneum seu bronzeum, elypeo 
valde reflexo postice foveato, thorace crebrissime punctulato sulco 
longitudinali lato fortiter impresso : elytris thorace parum latio- 
ribus sirtis rugoso-punctatis ; corpore subtus bronzeo punctulato. 
Long. corp. lin. 9. Inhabits North America. Mr. Doubleday. 
Gnathocera nigrita, B. Nigra, clypeo quadrato, dente brevi utrin- 
que armato, thorace hexagono varioloso, elytris antice scabris, 
postice levioribus et tuberculatis, pedibus atro-piceis. Long. 
corp. lin. 9. Inhabits Sierra Leone. Mr. Strachan. 
Gnathocera amabilis, B. Smaragdina nitida, pedibus roseo-opaili- 
nis, clypeo emarginato, untennis nigro-piceis, thorace trigono, la- 
teribus marginatis, atro-punctato. Long. corp.lin.10. Inhabits 
Sierra Leone. Mr. Strachan. 
Diplognatha holosericea, B. Nigra, thorace subtilissime punctu- 
lato, elytrisque striatis et punctatis ; corpore infra nigro nitido, 
aureo-pubescente ; abdomine lined medid longitudinali rubra im- 
pressa. Long. corp. lin. 95. Inhabits Sierra Leone. Mr. 
Strachan. 
Diplognatha Rama, H. Rufescens, clypeo rotundato, thorace et 
elytris purpureo-variegatis ; corpore subtus nigro, sterno rotun- 
dato rubro, pectore utringue maculd latd rubrd. Long. corp. 
lin. 8$. Inhabits Japan. Allied to Cet. Hebree, Oliv. 
Diplognatha? pectoralis, H. Fusco-rubra, clypeo bidentato, pectore 
pos: p Pe P 
flavo-maculato, segmentis abdominalibus utrinque flavo notatis ; 
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