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coast, south of the Bay of Islands, who are residing with the Church 

 missionaries at Paihia, on its southern shore, observed that the 

 Kiwies of their forests are much larger and more powerful birds than 

 my specimen taken on the Hokianga river. Might not those south- 

 ern birds be of a distinct species ?" 



Mr. G. Smith exhibited several birds, which had been preserved, 

 with all the parts entire, by a peculiar fluid, which was injected soon 

 after the death of the animal. For this antiseptic fluid Mr. Smith 

 has taken out a patent. 



The Rev. F. W. Hope exhibited a portion of his collection of in- 

 sects, in order to illustrate a paper entitled " A Monograph on Mr. 

 William Sharp MacLeay's Coleopterous Genus Euchlora." 



Genus Euchlora, MacLeay. 

 Melolontha, Linn., Fab. & Olivier. 



AntenncB articulis novem, basilar! conico elongato, 2do, 3tio, 4to, 

 5to et 6to brevibus subglobosis ; capitulo ovato, triphyllo, elongato. 

 antennarum longitudinis totius baud dimidium sequante. 



Labrum prominulum, clypeo fere absconditum, margine antico 

 lineari, ciliato, emarginato, lateribus rotundatis. 



Mandibula latitantes, subtrigonse supra planse, latere externo 

 rotundato, interno ciliato, ad apicem 3-dentato. 



Maxilla caule subtrigono-triquetro, ad apicem inflexae 6-den- 

 tatae. 



Palpi maxillares articulo terminal! cylindrico ovato. 



Labiales articulis 2do et ultimo longitudine sequalibus hoc sub- 

 ulate. 



Mentum subquadratum, margine antico emarginato angulis trun- 

 catis rotundatis ac lateribus sinuatis, postice valde convexis. 



Caput subquadratum clypeo lateribus rotundatis margine reflexo. 



Corpus ovatum convexum postice elytris baud opertum. Thorax 

 subquadratus ad basin duplo longior quam latior, latere postico 

 sinuato vix lobato. 



Scutellum parvum cordato-truncatum. Sternum baud productum. 



Pedes validiusculi tibiis anticis 3-dentatis. Tarsorum ungues 

 posticorum indivisi reliquorum ex unguibus unus bifidus, alter in- 

 divisus. 



" It is in the Marm and tropical regions of the world that we find 

 vastness one of the, leading characteristics of animal life. It is in 

 the same regions also, amongst the class of insects, that we find a 

 corresponding magnitude attended with a wonderful increase of spe- 

 cies, many examples of which might here be mentioned. It is suf- 

 ficient for our purpose at present to note only a few of them, such 

 as the Sternocera, among the Buprestidee ; Lamia, belonging to the 

 Longicorn beetles, and Melolontha and Euchlora, well-known genera 

 pertaining to the Lamellicorns. With regard to vegetation, there 

 will also be found an equal magnitude of stature and a luxuriance 



