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" The abdomen was reniarkably soft and flexible, reminding one ralher of a female 

 Psyche, 



" In front of the bead one seems to distinguish both pair of palpi, the antennse 

 and legs, the legs being longer than the antennse, for which 1 at first mistook them. 



"The autenua3 were not symmetrical in the specimen I examined, that on the 

 left side being close to the leg- cases, that on the right side lying nearly across the 

 centre of the wing. 



" Below the eyes and above the palpi appears a brown knob, which may possibly 

 represent the tongue; it bears numerous bristles: immediately beneath it are two 

 large brown projections, the use of which I am utterly at a loss to conjecture; they 

 expand towards the tips, which are scalloped obliquely. 



"Between the eyes, but above them, is a slight protuberance or beak, which is 

 nearly transparent; above it are again some strong brislles. 



" On the back a slender semi-transparent membrane projects upwards from the 

 first abdominal segment. 



" The head is very clearly separated from the thorax, and between the two is a 

 neck or collar." 



The larva was a birch-feeder, but, the perfect insect not having yet been bred, the 

 species was unknown. The appearance of the imago of Micropteryx had long since 

 suggested a doubt whether that genus was truly Lepidopterous or Trichoplerous : the 

 pupa now proved to be, as it were, midway between the proper pupa-forms of those 

 orders. 



Mr. M'Lachlan remarked that though the pupa was certainly a connecting link 

 between Lepidoptera and Trichoplera, it could not be claimed as belonging to the 

 latter order: the legs and antennae did not appear to be entirely free, as was always 

 the case in Trichoplerous pupse. Moreover, the form of the larva showed that the 

 insect was properly retained among the Lepidoptera. 



Professor Westwood thought the curious neck-tie-like appendage with scalloped 

 edges must be the covering of one of the pairs of palpi. 



Mr. Janson exhibited seven species of Coleoptera, hitherto unrecorded as in- 

 habitants of Britain, viz.: — 



1. Patrobus clavipes, Thomson, Sk. Coll. 25, 2 (1857) ; Skand. Coll. i. 214,2 (1859). 

 Taken by the late H. Squire near Lerwick, Shetland, in August, 1858. 



2. Harpalus (Ophonus) diffinis, Dejean, Spec. gen. iv. 196,4 (1829); Icon. W. 

 95,4, tab. 179, f. 4 (1834). Fairm. et Laboulb. Faune Ent. Franc, col. i. 121 , 2 (1854). 

 Schaum, Naturgesch. d. Ins. Deutschl. i. 573, 3 (1860). Taken by himself near 

 Cioydon, Surrey, in September, 1860. 



3. Harpalus (Ophonus) parallelus, Dejean, Sp. gen. iv. 219, 25 (1829); Icon. 

 120, 25, tab. 183, f. 4 (1834). Schaum, Naturgesch. d. Ins. Deutschl. i. 580, 12 

 (I860). Captured by the late H. Squire, on the Sussex coast, February, 1858. 



4. Aleochara mcerens, Gyll. Ins. Suec. iv. 493, 53—54 (1827). Eric. Gen. el 

 Spec. Staph. 169, 22 (1839). Kraalz, Naturgesch. d. Ins. Deutschl ii. 103, 23 

 (1866). Aleochara lugubris, Aube, Ann. Ent. Soc. i^r. 2me Ser. viii. 313 (1850); 

 Fairm. et Laboulb. Faune Ent. Frcing. col. i. 448, 19 (1856). Found by the late 

 J. Foxcroft, in Perthshire, in 1855. 



5. HomnloinThomsoni, Janson. Homalota nigricoruis, Thomson, Of v. of K'dn. 



