1180 The Zoologist— April, 18C8. 



A beautiful specimen of the nocturnal ground parrakeet of Australia (Geopsitlacus 

 occidentalis) was exhibited by Dr. Murie, who read an interesting paper on its 

 structure. 



A report by Messrs. Sclater and Salvin, on a collection of birds sent by Mr. Goering 

 from Venezuela, was read by the Secretary. The collection contained 125 species, 

 three of which were considered as new. 



A second report by the same authors was also read, on a collection of birds from 

 Peru. This collection was formed by Mr. Whitely, in the Tambo Valley, south of 

 Arequipa, and contained several species of great interest. Amongst others were 

 specimens of Calidris arenaria, a species which had not previously been observed in 

 South America, and whose geographical range was thus proved to be much more 

 extensive than had been supposed. 



Mr. E. T. Higgins exhibited six new species of shells belonging to different 

 genera, and gave descriptions of each. 



Dr. Gray gave a description of a new species of monkey, belonging to the genus 

 Colobus, which had been lately forwarded to the British Museum from Zanzibar, 

 where it was discovered by Dr. Kirk. Dr. Gray, in consequence, proposed to name it 

 Colobus Kirki.— J. E. H. 



Entomological Society. 

 February 17, 1868.— H. \V. Bates, Esq., President, in the chair. 



Donations to the Library. 

 The following^ donations were announced, and thanks voted to the donors : — 

 ' Tijdschrift voor Entomologie,' 2nd series, vol. ii. parts 2 — 6, vol. iii. part 1 ; presented 

 by the Entomological Society of the Netherlands. ' Remarks on the Names applied 

 to the British Hemiptera-Heteroptera,' by F. P. Pascoe ; by the Author. 



Election of Members. 

 Linnaeus Cumming, Esq., B.A., and E. P. R. Curzon, Esq., both of Trinity 

 College, Cambridge, were severally ballotted for, and elected Members. 



Exhibitions, Src. 



Mr. M'Lachlan exhibited a living specimen of Lucanus Cervus, found under 

 ground in an earthen or clayey cocoon : Mr. Backhouse, of Teddington, digging in 

 his garden, had turned up half a dozen of these cocoons, each containing a beetle and 

 the remains of the skin of the larva and pupa. It thus appeared that the beetle had 

 not gone under ground to hybernate, but the larva had descended into the earth and 

 had there undergone the changes to pupa and imago. 



Mr. A. E. Eaton remembered one or two such cocoons being dug up in the autumn, 

 about October, in a potato-field, and these contained living stag-beetles. 



Mr. Janson also had dug stag-beetles out of earth, not wood; and thought that the 

 specimens appearing in the spring were in fact hatched in the autumn, and remained 

 in their cocoons throughout the winter. 



Mr. Stainton compared the case to that of Cossus ligniperda, the larva and pupa 

 of which were specially adapted for their ordinary habitat in wood, but the larva some- 

 times, he believed in a state of nature, and certainly in confinement, went under 



