2874 The Zoologist — December, 1871. 



Mr. Bond exhibited examples of Zygaena exulaus, a recent addition to 

 the British Fauna, captured at Braemar by Dr. F. Buchanan White. Also 

 a specimen of Catocala fraxini, captured in the Regent's Park on the 12th of 

 September last ; and he remarked that the insect had occurred in that 

 locahty for three successive yeai-s. Furthermore he exhibited a very 

 singular variety of Chcerocampa elpenor from Ipswich, in which the central 

 portion of each fore wing was perfectly hyaline and free from scales, the 

 insect being in perfect condition, and jiresenting no indication of the 

 peculiarity having been induced by artificial means. 



Mr. Howard Vaughau exhibited examples of the Triphsena from Forres, 

 captured by Mr. G. Norman, which Mr. Newman had named T. Curtisii. 

 Mr. Vauglian, however, considered it to be only a dark form of T. orbona. 

 Mr. W. A. Lewis made some observations on the synonymy of this form, 

 pointing out that it had been figured by Curtis as T. consequa, Hiibner, and 

 further thafit was given by Stephens as T. subsequa, W. V. 



Mr. Vaughan also exiiibited a nearly black variety of Arge Galathea, 

 captured in Kent by Mr. Faru. 



Mr. E. W. Janson exhibited two new, or recently detected, species of 

 Coleoptera, captured by the Rev. A. Matthews, as follows : — 



" Throsccs CAiiiNiFRONS, de Bonvouloir, Essai Monographique sur la 

 Famille des Throscides, p. 20, tab. i. fig. 5 (1859). 



" At first sight resembling T. dermestoides, L., J)ut at once distinguished 

 from it by the ocular depression extending right across the eyes ; more 

 nearly allied to T. elateroides, Heer (T. gradlia? WolL), but readily sepa- 

 rated therefrom by its superior size, the promiuence of the lateral frontal 

 longitudinal ridges, which extend to the anterior margin of the prothorax, 

 the siuuated sides and prominent posterior angles of the prothorax, especially 

 in the males, and the somewhat finer punctuation of the interstices of the 

 elytra. 



" Three specimens taken by the Rev. A. Matthews, in company with 

 T. dermestoides, by sweeping in a plantation near Chiselhurst, in July, 1869, 

 and shortly after placed in my hands for identification. 



" CRYriiALus picE^, Ratzeburg, Forst-Insecten, i. p. 163 (1837). 



" Allied to C. abietis, Ratzeb., but larger, less convex, the elevations on 

 the anterior part of the prothorax larger and arranged in five or six tolerably 

 regular rows, the striae of the elytra distinct, and the interstices, especially 

 towards the apex, with sparse erect yellow bristles. 



" One specimen taken by the Rev. A. Matthews, many years since, in the 

 vicinity of Weston, Oxon." 



Mr. F. Smith exhibited a large Noctua, apparently an Aplecta, captured 

 by Mr. J. Gwyn Jeffreys, on the Atlantic, about 220 miles from Nova 

 Scotia, on the outward voyage. (This has since been identified as the pale 

 form of Aplecta occulta). 



