260 MR. C. O. WATERHOUSE ON [Feb. 15, 



ridion simile, C. L. Koch, and several other small Spiders of the 

 same or nearly allied genera. 



It was very possible that there might be more than one species 

 of parasite among the larvae, and an interesting point thus remained 

 to be worked out by students of Hymenopterous parasites. 



Mr. E. W. H. Holdsworth, F.Z.S., exhibited a specimen of 

 White's Thrush, Turdus varius, Pall., which had been killed near 

 Ashburton, Devon, during the severe cold weather in January last. 

 This bird was one of a flock of four or five of apparently the same 

 species, and was stated to be the ninth recorded example of this 

 eastern Thrush obtained in England since 1828. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. On the Coleopterous Insects belonging to the family 

 Hispidce collected by Mr, Buckley in Ecuador. By 

 Chas. O. Waterhouse. (Commuuicated by Dr. A. 

 GtJNTHER, F.R.S., F.Z.S., &c.) 



[Received January 27, 1881.] 



(Plate XXX.) 



The object of the present paper is to give an account of the His- 

 pidse collected by Mr. Buckley in Ecuador. The number of species 

 hitherto recorded as inhabiting that country is only seventeen ; of 

 these Mr. Buckley found fifteen, as well as nineteen new species, 

 making a total of thirty-six species. 



The following are the descriptions of the new species, which 

 appear to have all been collected at Sarayacu, with the exception of 

 Cephalolia lata, which is from the Balzar Mountains, and Cephalo- 

 donta lycoides, which is from Chiguinda. 



All the specimens are in the British Museum, the fine series col- 

 lected by Mr. Buckley having been presented to the Trustees by 

 Messrs. Godman & Salvin. 



The two species to which an asterisk is prefixed were not met 

 with by Mr. Buckley. 



1. Prosopodonta scutellaris, n. sp. (Plate XXX. fig. 19.) 



P. nigra, opaca ; thorace ante medium oblique angustato, sat crebre 

 punctata, elytris ferrugineis , fortiter puncfato-stiiatis, interstitiis 

 secundo quartoque pauIo elevatis nitidis. Long. 6 lin. 

 Head dull, smooth, with a small frontal fovea. Thorax one fifth 

 broader than long, dull, convex, impressed at the base before the 

 scutellum, subparallel at the sides till near the front, where it is then 

 arcuately narrowed to the head ; very strongly and irregularly punc- 

 tured, the punctures rather close at the base, more separated ante- 



