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4. Argas noctule, Westw. Perfectly round in outline, the disc of the 
cephalothorax with deep and large punctures widely scattered, and with 
radiating punctures towards the margins. Long.5 mm. Taken from off 
a gentleman in the church of Whittlesford, Cambridgeshire, having evidently 
fallen from the larger noctule bat, of which two young individuals had 
dropped close to the gentleman on whom it had been found, and whom it 
attempted to bite. Forwarded to Prof. Westwood by Mr. F. Bond. It is 
closely allied to the Argas pipistrelle of Audouin, but is very much 
larger. 
5. Argas persicus (“the poisonous bug of Persia”). The specimen 
exhibited had been forwarded to Prof. Westwood by the late Herr Wester- 
mann, of Copenhagen, who had received it from Col. Motschulsky. 
Papers read, &c. 
Major Parry read “Descriptions of some new species of Lucanoid 
Coleoptera, with remarks upon the species comprising the genus Can- 
tharolethrus of Thomson.” The new species (which were exhibited by Major 
Parry) were Cantharolethrus Buckleyii from Ecuador; Sphenognathus 
armatus from Columbia; Leptionopterus affinis and L. paranensis from 
Para. 
Mr. Bates remarked that during his residence at Para he had never 
found any species of this division ; it was therefore extremely interesting to 
him to see the two species now exhibited. 
M. Snellen van Vollenhoven communicated a description and figure of 
an insect belonging to the same division from Java, under the name 
Prosopoccelus Rosenbergii. 
Prof. Westwood read a description of a further addition to the division, 
and exhibited a figure thereof. This was named Ceratognathus rufipennis. 
February 19, 1872.—Prof. J. O. Wxstwoop, M.A., F.L.S., President, 
in the Chair. 
Election of Members. 
The following gentlemen were ballotted for and elected Annual Subscribers 
to the Society:—Dr. W. H. Ransom, F.R.S., of Nottingham; H. W. 
Livett, Esq., M.D., of Wells, Somerset; J. H. A. Jenner, Esq., of Lewes ; 
and G. B. Rothera, Esq., of Nottingham. 
— 
Donations to the Library. 
The following donations were announced, and thanks yoted to the 
donors :—‘ Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou,’ 
