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Election of a Member. 



James Koine, Esq., M.A., &c., Woodlands, Hamilton, Lanarkshire, was elected a 

 Member of the Society. 



Exhihitions. 



Mr. Pascoe exhibited a number of Coleoptera, selected from a large collection 

 (about 1300 species) which he had made, during the preceding winter, in the South of 

 France (Dep. du Var). One of these, the true Carabus vagans, is not found in the 

 mountains, as M. Leon Fairmaire has stated in his ' Faune Frangaise,' but in the low- 

 lying ground near the sea, especially delighting to hide under the large leaves of the 

 artichoke, in which situation it is often found in considerable quantities. An Anoph- 

 thalmus (A. Raymondi, one of the numerous discoveries of that most indefatigable 

 naturalist, M. Raymond), is found very sparingly iu a small limestone cavern near 

 Hyeres: it is well worthy of note that the same species h;is been taken in the cellar of 

 an old monastery at Marseilles: like all the blind beetles it runs very rapidly, and can 

 only be taken with difficulty. Another recent discovery of M. Raymond's, Anillus 

 Gallicus, ^M6e,also blind, is only found beneath very large stones deeply embedded in 

 the earth. Amaurops Aubei, one of the Pselaphidae, and blind also, as its name im- 

 plies, is found, but very rarely, beneath the bark of old pine-stumps {Pinus hale- 

 pensis). Faronus Lafertii, a very remarkable Pselaphidean, resembling a Staphyliuus, 

 was not unficquently found at the roots of grass, often associated wiih Thorectus grandi- 

 collis, Germ., and Trotoma pubescens, Kiesw., the latter sometimes in considerable num- 

 bers. Two insects belonging to families which in England are mostly found on flowers, 

 Atelestus hemipterus, Er., and Anlhicus Genei, Laf., may often be seen during the 

 month of May running rapidly over stones on the coast within a few inches of 

 the sea. 



Mr. Pascoe also called especial attention to the fine, and until recently excessively 

 rare, lamellicorn Callicnemis Latreillei, La;j. : this insect, he stated, was only to be 

 found a very short time during the month of May, appearing for a few minutes on the 

 sands at St. Raphael, just as the dusk was deepening into night; they disappeared 

 immediately at the approach of a light, burying themselves in the loose sand from 

 which they had just emerged: they only came out when the night was perfectly calm, 

 and it was singular that while at Hyeres they were only seen on the wing at St. Ra- 

 phael they invariably confined themselves, as M. Raymond informed him (Mr. Pascoe), 

 to crawling on the sand. Among the specimens which Mr. Pascoe exhibited were 

 Antidipnis rubripes, Perris, found in the sand at the root of an Artemisia, and 

 A. Javeti, du Val, from which it is perfectly distinct; Ptilium filiforme, a new species 

 named but not yet described by Dr. Aube, first found by M. Raymond in sand close to 

 the sea ; Theca byrrhoides, Aube, a new genus allied to Dorcatoma, a single specimen 

 of which he (Mr. Pascoe) had taken at St. Raphael ; Cboerorhinus squalidus, L. Fairm. ; 

 Auletes cisticola, L. Fairm.', Julodis Onopordi, Fab. (from Toulon); Lema Hoflf- 

 mannseggi, Lac, and Ceutorhynchus Raphaelensis, Chev. ; the latter, originally dis- 

 covered by M. Raymond at St. Raphael, on young plants of the Glaucium luteum, 

 and by carefully turning back the leaves of the unexpanded bud Mr. Pascoe stated he 

 invariably found one or more individuals on every plant which he examined at Hyeres. 



