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nearly all of which have the elytra and the greater part of the under 
surface black (var. nigrans), which seems to be the prevailing form 
of the species; the pale yellowish form (described as L. wanthophea 
from a single example) being therefore a variety. 
LEBIA CALLITREMA. 
L. comitatee (Bates) ew Japonia proxime affinis et similis. Flavo- 
testacea, elytris vitta suturali postice sensim vel subito dilatata, 
paullo post scutellum incipienti et ante apicem terminata, nigra, 
strigaque abbreviata apud interstitium 8vum infuscata ; capite 
levi ; thorace mediocriter transverso ab angulis anticis rotun- 
dato-ampliato, postice vie perspicue angustato (lateribus levis- 
sime sinuatis), angulis posticis rectis, margine laterali late 
explanato-reflexo, lobo basali mediocriter elongato, dorso vage 
sed distincte strigoso ; elytris profunde striatis interstitiisque 
convexis. Tarsi articulo 4° anguste bilobato. 
Long. 6 millim. 
April 16, 1889. 
Dr. A. Giinther, F.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The Secretary exhibited a pair of a fine large Buprestine Beetle of 
the genus Julodis (Julodis finchi, Waterh.) (see P. Z. S. 1885, p. 64), 
of which a single specimen had been previously transmitted by Mr. 
B. T. Ffinch, C.M.Z.S., in 1884, from Karachi. 
These specimens, likewise transmitted to the Society by Mr. Ffinch, 
had been obtained in the same locality. The previous specimen 
was a female. ‘The male was similar but narrower and smaller. It 
was proposed to deposit the specimens, in Mr. Ffinch’s name, in the 
British Museum. 
The Secretary also exhibited a specimen of an Insect transmitted 
by Mrs. Talbot, wife of Major Talbot, Consul General of Bagdad. 
Mrs. Talbot wrote that this was a very destructive insect which 
abounds at Bagdad, and was called by the native gardeners “ Harub.”’ 
It was seldom seen above ground and made long burrows, throwing 
up the earth in ridges all over the garden and destroying a considerable 
number of young plants. 
Mr. C. O. Waterhouse, to whom Mr. Sclater had submitted the 
specimen, pronounced it to be the common Mole-cricket of Europe, 
Gryllotalpa vulgaris. 
Mr. Sclater made some remarks on the animals noticed in the 
Zoological Gardens of Rotterdam, Amsterdam, and Antwerp, which 
he had recently visited. 
In the Rotterdam Gardens, on a row of trees immediately adjoin- 
ing the large covered Aviary in which the Night-Herons bred, 
