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by naturalists. Mv. White considered these ideas, if developed by their illustrious I 



author in a republication of his works with annotations, as likely to prevent the dan- 

 gerous theories of Lamarck and his pupil, Charles Darwin, from ever affecting, ex- 

 cept in a sanatory way, " our little systems," which " have their day and cease to be.'' 

 He said a few words on his good friend Mr. Rayner's admirable collections of Crus- 

 tacea, and expressed a hope that the Government would grant a sufficient sum to 

 publish the valuable ' Natural History of the Voyage of H.M.S, Herald,' begun by 

 John M'Gillivray, and carried on so successfully by Messrs. Rayner and Dr. Mac- 

 don aid. 



Mr. White also exhibited a beautiful Bombyx, allied to the Bombyx Certhia, 

 Fabr., figured by Petiver. This new species was brought from India, by General Sir 

 John Hearsey, K.C.B., and for which he proposed the name of Brahmsea Hearseyi. 

 It is smaller than the Brahmtea Wallichii, Gray (Bombyx spectabilis, Hope), and has 

 three or four irregular undulating white lines in the apex of the fore wing, instead of 

 three longitudinal lines of angled white Vs : he pointed out the black band behind 

 this space being curved outwardly, instead of angled and irregular as in B. Wallichii. 

 Mr. White also exhibited a fine species of Phryganidfe, also brought from Northern 

 India by Sir John Hearsay, with yellowish brown upper wings richly and thickly 

 spotted and blotched with black ; the lower wings black, with purple tinge, and a 

 broad yellow band before the tip, widest on the fore part. He named it Holostomis 

 M'Lachlani, in compliment to a gentleman who had done, and would yet, if he lived, 

 do much to advance our knowledge of Trichoptera, and neuropterous insects in 

 general. 



Mr. White also exhibited the male and female of a beautiful Lycaena from New 

 Zealand. It was allied to L. Sallustius, JPair, (the L. Edna of Doubleday). The 

 male of this lovely Lycaena is suffused with purple-violet, and has a row of red spots 

 on both wins:s, and black marks and spots ; the under side is quiet brown and gray. 

 The female is larger, and has only a line of purple behind the tip of fore wings and 

 parallel with its margin, and a macular line of violet on lower wings. Mr. White 

 proposed for it the name Lycaena Boldenarum, after Helen and Frances Mary Bolden, 

 the former for eighteen years his devoted wife, the latter for the last three years the 

 wife of T. Corbet de Lacy, Esq., of Dunedin, in New Zealand. The last three exhi- 

 bitions are of insects to be figured and described in the ' Proceedings of the Zoological 

 Society.' 



Mr. Waterhouse exhibited three species of Curculionidas from Australia, and laid 

 descriptions of them before the Meeting. The first he supposed to be the Strongylo- 

 rhinus ochraceus of Schonherr ; and the remaining two he regarded as members of a 

 new genus, very closely allied to Strongylorhinus, but differing chiefly in having the 

 rostrum curved, in the antennae having the seventh joint of the funiculus confounded 

 with the club-joints, in the second joint being short, and lastly, in the total absence of 

 claw-joints to the tarsi. To this genus the name Atelicus was applied. The two 

 species received the names A. insequalis and A. ferrugineus. 



A. inaequalis is described as being 5^ lines in length, oblong, and of a pitchy black 

 colour, but densely clothed with scales, partly of an ochraceous colour, and partly 

 dark brown, giving a variegated appearance to the upper parts of the body. Thorax 

 with the sides but gently rounded, the fore part constricted, the surface uneven and 

 punctured; elytra striate- punctate, the alternate interstices unequally raised, and 

 having four tubercles in a transverse line towards the apex. It is from Tasmania. 



