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seerabad in the latter end of July 1844, though I had never pre- 

 viously seen the insect in this state during nineteen years' sojourn in 

 India. They were as numerous as their parents, swarming on every 

 bush, and crawling all over the ground for miles among the hills near 

 the above-named cantonment (these hills are a portion of the Ara- 

 valli range which rise near Delhi). The larva is very handsomely 

 marked with orange-yellow and black ; the face, if I may so term it, 

 is bright orange-yellow, the portion behind and below the eyes a 

 dark maroon. Legs (posterior ones) bright yellow banded with black ; 

 winglets light yellow, faintly striped with dusky connected spots. 

 Antennae black, with the two first joints yellow. But nothing but 

 a correct delineation, or the insect itself, can give a just idea of its 

 handsome markings. 



" The two specimens now forwarded of a new species of Colias, 

 together on one card, are, I am strongly inclined to think, different 

 only in sex ; and I consider the white as the male, having observed 

 it hovering over the red. And besides this, I have been led to 

 the conclusion by the fact, that for one red I took at least five white. 

 The tree jungle about the place is called the Peeloo : its technical 

 name is unknown to me ; but the wood is held in high esteem by 

 the natives for the purpose of making tooth-brushes. 



" I have two species of Celyphus from Mhow in Malwa ; one 

 a bright bottle-green, the other darkish brown : the smaller species 

 is about three lines long, the other a line longer. 7'hey resemble 

 some of the Fungicolce, but are rather longer in shape. The hard case 

 (beneath which the wings are distinctly visible and extrude over the 

 abdomen) is very like what obtains in many species of Scutellera." 



A letter was read from Mr. Boreham, suggesting that the colours 

 and forms of larvae might possibly be preserved by inclosing them in 

 glass tubes hermetically sealed from which the air had been ex- 

 tracted. 



Mr. White read the descriptions of several new exotic Hemiptera, 

 since published elsewhere, and alluded to the alteration produced by 

 desiccation in metallic coloured insects, whence a species of Callidea, 

 described under the name of purpurea by Mr. Westwood, was, when 

 alive, of a metallic green. Spirits of wine, warm water, or aether 

 were equally efficacious in restoring these colours after death. Mr. 

 White also stated that Mr. Walker was engaged upon a work on 

 the British Aphides, to be published by subscription. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



MR. CUMING's collection OF SHELLS. 



We have learnt with much gratification that the Trustees of the 

 i British Museum have resolved to recommend to Government 

 > the purchase of the well-known conchological collection of Hugh 

 i Cuming, Esq., F.L.S. We trust that no motives of mistaken 

 i economy may operate to frustrate this resolution. Its import- 



