The Zoologist— April, 1868. 11 8.3 



Exhibitions, frc. 



pa.ed with the Fabrcan type-specnnens in the collection of Sir Joseph Banks with 

 a v evv to the correction of several errors of nomenclature. Thus .he insects known as 

 ftiloptera morbillosa, Dicerca lurida and Belionota canaliclata we « not the U 

 nmrb.llosa Inrida and canaliculata of Fabricius: the species comma, ly T.ed A v 

 lochejm flavomaculata, Fab,, was in fact the maculata of Fabricius whilst the 

 maculata of authors other than Fabricius was identical with the strigos I G bier 

 Mr E Saunders also exhibited Pasiphae znodesta and Ethon cruciatu.n which 

 though described by Fabricius, and figured by Olivier and H,,h, 7T ' 



noticed by recent authors, except that o£mZ£fiZZ h ZL Tf 

 Buprest-s superba, an insect which was not specifically distinct from P. ZZT 



Mr Pascoe existed the type of a new genus of Prionnte, captured by 

 Mr. Swanzy ; and read the following description :- ^piuieci by 



.,«< , «. o M ,„ s fer „ .";;: x* Sr-sfir cora, " ess * j ia - i ^ 



Eudianodes Sivanzii Nio-pr ,,;t,'r),,c . „,.,-. .i_ 



w. LMgei nititlus; capite prothoraceque subiiliier nunotafis 



SteSC^^ ** subtle punct^r;: 



^ Mr. Pascoe also read the following description of a new species of Curcu- 

 <;< Osycorynw Hydno^.-BnMscns ; rostro attenuato; fronte prothoraceque 



Stsj^s^s^ 6 - carinatis ' i — —• w . H„ ora ( :r 



.sects in the box were a Xylopertha, resembjg X. sLata ^' s l..° t 

 7 S of N ' l ^l'd«; «PParently near Carpophilus; and a Sap rinus, with 'lage 

 yellow spot on each elytron. The whole of these were stated by Mr. SI ick ndantz to 

 have been found by hhn «in the flowers of a new species of Hydnora " a genu S f 

 Cy Unacea, root-parasnes, some of which exhale a peculiar animal odour). 



do Jen ft \ l T (Wh ° WaS FeSent aS " Visi ' 0,) exhibited P"P» ° f se ^ral Lepi- 

 dopte.a from S.erra Leone, one of which, apparently an AntherL, was remarkable 

 rom hav.ng two very deep impressions near the hinder extremity. Mr, Wood men- 



tZtu he i" d . ° DCe r" 6 ' a PUpa ° f SphiDX L ^ USt,i ' »' « tba t the 

 hau te lum was 2 x Umes as long as its case, within which it lay double throughout the 

 entire length of the case and in a triple fold for half its length. 



With reference to the numerical disproportion of the sexes of insects (S. S 1181) 

 Mr Stamton mentioned that since the previous Meeting he had inquired the' results 

 of the experience ^of Mr. Doubleday and Mr. Hellins in breeding mLo-L^oX 

 M,. Doubleday thought that males were generally more numerous than females, and 

 did not remember a single instance in which he had met with an excess of females. 



1 :Jr n' ° D \° ° ei ' haDd ' iep0rled that te bad usual 'y fouud **»!« more 

 numerous than males. 



