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66. Pupa conoidea, Newcomb MSS. P. testa perforata, glo- 

 boso-conica, tenui, striatula, diaphana, parum nitida, fusca ; spira 

 conoidea, apice obtusa ; anfractibus A\, convexis, ultimo \ longitu- 

 dinis (Bquante, basi rotundato ; apertura parum obliqua, semicircu- 

 lari, edentula ; peristomate simplice, expansiusculo, margine colu- 

 mellari subdilatato, patents. 



Long. 1^, diam. 1 mill. 



Hab. in Demerara (Newcomb). 



3. On a new species of Suthora from China. 

 By G. R. Gray, F.L.S., F.Z.S. etc. 



Suthora Webbiana. (Aves, PI. XLTX.) 



Crown of the head and back of the neck sandy red, passing into 

 the olive tint of the back and upper surface generally ; tail of the 

 same colour, but of a shade darker than the back ; primaries strongly 

 edged with bright rufous ; throat and breast light buff, washed with 

 a rosy tint ; abdomen inchned to ohve ; bill light brown, washed 

 with rosy pink ; legs either yellow or fleshy white. 



Hab. China (Shang Hai). 



A single specimen, collected by Mr. Webb, was presented by that 

 gentleman to the British Museum. It is much larger than S. nipa- 

 lensis &nA.fulvifrons, and is figured of the natural size in the plate. 



March 23, 1852. 



Professor Owen, F.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Broderip communicated an account of a picture in his posses- 

 sion, which he exhibited, containing an original study of the Dodo 

 from life, by Rolandt Savery*. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. On the Species of the Genus Sericinus. 

 By G. R. Gray, F.L.S., F.Z.S. etc. 



In the Transactions of the Entomological Society of London for 

 1851 (p. 173), Mr. Westwood established a Lepidopterous genus 

 under the name of Sericinus, which he founded on bad specimens of 

 an insect sent from Shanghai by Mr. R. Fortune, and then supposed 

 to comprise " both sexes " of the insect figured by Donovan in his 

 'Insects of China,' pi. 27. f. 1, under the appellation of Papilio 

 Telamon, no specimen of which, as Mr. Westwood justly observed, 

 was then known to exist "in any continental or British collections." 



* A portion of this Picture will be engraved in the Transactions. 



