38 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
Professor A. H. Garrod read a paper on the conformation of the 
thoracic extremity of the trachea, in the birds of the order Galline. 
A communication was read from Dr. A. Giinther, F.R.S., containing 
the description of some reptiles from Midian, collected by Major Burton. 
Amongst these were two new Snakes proposed to be called Echis decorata 
and Zamenis elegantissima. 
Mr. H. Seebohm pointed ont the character of a new Sylvia from 
Abyssinia, proposed to be called Sylvia Blanfordi, after Mr. Blanford, 
by whom it was obtained during the Abyssinian Expedition. Mr. Seebohm 
also read notes on the identity of the birds which had been named 
Horornis fortipes, Neornis assimilis, Horeites robustipes, H. brunneus, and 
H. pallidus, and proposed to reduce them to one species under the name 
Cettia fortipes. y 
Mr. Martin Jacoby read descriptions of some new species of Phytophagous 
Coleoptera, from Central and South America.—P. L. Scuarer, Secretary. 
EntomonLogicaL Soorety or Lonpon. 
November 6, 1878.—H. W. Bares, Esq., F.L.S., F.Z.S., President, in 
the chair. 
Mr. F. Smith called attention to a passage in Mr. M‘Lachlan’s “ Report 
on the Linnean Collection,” read at the last meeting (vide Ent. Mo. Mag. 
for November, p. 140), wherein the author states, as the result of his 
examination of the collection, that “ there were no traces of mites, Psoci, 
or Anthreni.” Mr. Smith was of opipion that this statement might lead to 
the belief that he had affirmed that the collection was actually attacked by 
mites, Psoci, and Anthreni, and as this was not the case he mentioned the 
subject in order to remove any erroneous impression. 
Mr. C. O. Waterhouse exhibited a specimen of Chauliognathus excellens, 
a new beetle from the United States of Columbia. 
Mr. H. T. Stainton exhibited a new horn-feeding Tinea reared from 
horns from Singapore, 7’. orientalis, allied to the well-known large species 
from South Africa, of which the larve fed in the horns of living buffaloes 
and antelopes, and which had been described by Zeller under the name of 
Vastella, and subsequently by himself under the name Gigantella, both 
names referring to the extraordinary size of the insect in the genus Tinea. 
The specimens now exhibited were reared by Mr. Simmons, of Poplar, who 
found them in his greenhouse, and was quite at a loss to account for their 
appearance till Mr. Stainton suggested they were horn-feeders, when he 
remembered a piece of horn placed on a shelf and forgotten, but which 
when examined showed evident traces of having been eaten, and from 
which pupa-skins had been obtained. 
