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the former for eighteen years his devoted wife, the hitter for the last three years the 

 wife of T. Corbel de Lacy, Esq., of Duneilin, in New Zealand. The last three exhi- 

 bitions are of insects lo be figured and debcribed in the ' Proceedings of the Zoological 

 Society.' 



Mr. Waterhonse exhibited three species of Curcuiionidae from Australia, and laid 

 descriptions of them before the Meeting. The first he supposed to be the Strongylo- 

 rhinus ochraceus of Schonherr ; and the remaining two he regarded as members of a 

 new genus, very closely allied to Strongylorhinus, but differing chiefly in having the 

 rostrum curved, in the antenna? having the seventh joint of the funiculus confounded 

 with the club-joints, in the second joint being short, and lastly, in the total absence of 

 claw-joints to the tarsi. To this genus the name Aielicus was applied. The two 

 species received the names A. inaequalis and A. ferrugineus. 



A. insqualis is described as being 5^ lines in length, oblong, and of a pitchy black 

 colour, but densely clothed with scales, partly of an ochraceous colour, and partly 

 dark brown, giving a variegated appearance to the upper parts of the body. Thorax 

 with the sides but gently rounded, the fore part constricted, the surface uneven and 

 punctured ; elytra s!riiito-])unclate, the alternate interstices unequally raised, and 

 having four tubercles in a transverse line towards the apex. It is from Tasmania. 



The second species, A. ferrugineus, is from Adelaide. Its length is 2f lines. In 

 size and form it nearly resembles the small European insect known as Lixus rufitarsis 

 of Schonherr : in colour it is of a somerthat deeper red than the Apion fiumentarium : 

 the head, rostrum, sides and under pans of the thorax clothed with yellow scales ; a 

 small s|)0t at the humeral angle of the elytra, and a ring at the apex of each elytron 

 are also formed by yellow scales : head and thorax with scattered punctures ; elytra 

 siriato-punctate, and with the interstices flat. 



Mr. Janson exhibited specimens of the following Coleoptera, brought by him 

 before the Society on previous occasions under the names of Homalota subterranea 

 and Haploglossa rufipennis, and made the following observations respecting them : — 



" Homalota subterranea, Muls. This appears to coincide, as Mr. Waterhouse 

 states, with an insect in the European Collection at the British Museum furnished by 

 Dr. Kraatz, under the appellation of Homalota scapularis, Sahlberg. I had, however, 

 prior to bringing the subject under the notice of the Society, carefully compared my 

 specimen with the descriptions both of Sahlberg and Kraatz, and found disparities 

 which precluded me from referring it lo ihat species: thus, Sahlberg (Insecta Fennica, 

 372, 50) described his Aleochara scapularis as being ' barely one line long,' and as 

 having the 'abdomen shining, scarcely punctulate,' and the characiers attributed by 

 Kraatz (Naturgesch. d. ins. Deutschl. ii. 291, 100) are not in accordance with those 

 presented by my example; finally, my specimen appeared to me to coincide well with 

 both Mulsant's and Kraalz's descriptions of H. subterranea, and furthermore its 

 occurrence in a nesl of Formica flava led me unhesitatingly to refer it to thai species: 

 if, however, an insect received at the British Museum from Dr. Kraatz as the Homa- 

 lota subterranea of Mulsant is really the species described by ihat author, it is not 

 only specifically distinct from the insect to which I had applied that name, but 

 pertains to a different section of the genus. 



" Haploglossa rufipennis is not the species so desii;nated by Kraatz, as I have 

 convinced myself by a comparison with examples sent by him to the British Museum, 

 but is perfectly distinct from an insect which I regard as the true H. puUa of Gyllenhal, 

 being less coarsely punctate, having the antennae conspicuously stouter, their articula- 



