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the genus one was known to feed on the eggs of Pontia brassic*, and consequently 

 was of terrestrial habits. Wilh refefeoce to what he termed the geoU)gical aspect of 

 the question, Mr. Lubbock remarked that, if this insect had been found in a fossil 

 StAte, no geologist would ever have imagined that it was an inhabitant of the water, — 

 a circumstance which showed the necessity of some degree of caution in deducing 

 from the structure of animals conclusions as to their habits. 



Paper read. 

 Professor Dr. Schaum, of Berlin, communicated the following description of and 

 remarks on Scaritarchus Midas, a new genus and species of the Coleopterous group 

 Scaritidae : — 



SCARITAHCHUS. 



" Labrum antice subemarginatum. Mandibulae intus unidentatae, supra rugoso- 

 striatae. Maxillse apice rotundatae. Meutum dente medio simplici, profunde 

 caualiculato, lobis lateralibus rotundatis breviori. Palpi maxillares articulo 

 ultimo Iriangulari, lato, fere subsecuriformi, praecedentis longitudine ; labiales 

 articulo ultimo fortiter securiformi. Prothorax breviter cordatus, augulis pos- 

 ticis distinctis, basi subemarginatus. Coleoptera ovalia, striato-punctata. Tibice 

 aulicBB supra canaliculatse, extus iridenlatcB, dentibus inferioi'ibus approxi- 

 matis obtusis, tibiae intermediae fortiter uuidentalae. Trochanteres postici bre^ 

 ves, validi, apice rotundato. 



ScABiTAECHUS MiDAS. Niger, prothoracis margine laterali basalique et eljtrorum 

 margine laterali late aureo, his crebre striato-punctatis, interslitiis subcon- 

 vexis, carinula humerali in iuterstitium coutinuata. Long, l^- poll, et ultra. 



The spleudid insect here described constitutes a new genus of Scaritidae, and 

 belongs to the first section of that group (Lacord. Gen. i. 192), which embraces Pasi- 

 machus, Eraydoplerus, Carenum and Scaraphites. It stands nearest Carenum, resem- 

 bling it in the securilorm last joint of the labial palpi, differing from it, however, in 

 the broad, triangular and almost securiform last joint of the maxillary palpi, in the 

 simply and feebly emarginated labrum, in the cordate prothorax wilh distinct angles, 

 and in its strongly unideutate intermediate tibiae. A few specimens, collected in I/aos 

 by the late M. Henri Mouhot, have recently been received by Mr. Stevens. A figure 

 of it will be shortly given." 



Special General Meeting, 

 The Secretary announced that a requisition, signed by six members of the Society, 

 had been presented to the President and Council, requesting that a Special General 

 Meeting be called, for the consideration of certain specified alterations in the Bye- 

 Laws : a copy of the Bye-Laws wilh the proposed alterations was laid on the table, 

 and was taken as read to the Meeting; and notice was given that a Special General 

 Meeting of the Society would be held for the above purpose on Monday, the 1st day 

 of December next, at 7 p. m.— J. W. D. 



Errata.— Vage 8163, line 11 from bollom, for " stubble" read " stable :" 8164, line 

 15 from top, for " earnestly " read " exactly ;" line 18, dele " patient and :" 8164, third 

 line from top, for " it was the dark deed " r^ad " it was the dark doing.'' 



