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subhexagono piano polito, in puncta duo profunda antice lateraliter 

 desinente ; disco pone medium valde punetato, versus marginem posti- 

 cum elevato laevi, spatio ovali mediano punetato et impresso relicto. — 

 Long. corp. lin. 11. 

 Hab. ad Melville Island. Mus. Hope (etiam in Mus. Gory, nunc Hope, 

 cum nomine B. Reichii inscripto). 



Obs. The name given to the male of this species is here retained 

 in preference to that of the female, in accordance with the usual 

 custom in such cases. 



3. B. Taurus ; castaneus nitidus, capitis vertice utiinquelaminis duabus 

 auriculatis erectis instructo cornubusque duobus elongatis curvatis nigris 

 ante oculos armato, pronoto in medio versus marginem anticum parum 

 reflexo seu tuberculis duobus transversis subelevatis instructo ; lateri- 

 bus punctatis. — Long. corp. lin. 8. 



Hab. ad Swan River. In Mus. Hope (olim Gory, sub nomine manu- 

 scripto supra indicato ; etiam in Mus. Saunders). 



4. B. Capreolus; castaneus nitidus, capite postice nigricante; vertice 

 cornu lato furcato 6-dentato erecto armato, pronoto antice retuso glabro, 

 dorso carina transversa pone medium instructo, mandibulis magnis 

 extus denticulatis. <?. — Long. corp. lin. 9. 



Hab. in Nova Hollandia, Swan River. In Mus. Hope (olim Mus. Gory, 

 cum nomine supra inscripto designatum). 



5. B. Bainbridgii ; piceus, capitis clypeo antice tridentato, dente inter- 

 medio minori ; vertice inermi, pronoto antice valde declivi dente erecto 

 versus marginem anticum; parte declivi supra, carina curvata mar- 

 ginata. — Long. corp. lin. 7. 



Hab. in Nova Hollandia, Swan River. In Mus. D. Hope. 



Of these species, as well as of B.(Elephastomus) Australasia, Kirby, 

 B. serricollis, Bainbridge, B. hastifer, Bainb., B. 3 -tuber culatus, 

 Bainb., B. 7 -tuber culatus, Bainb., B. coronatus, Klug, B. quadricornis, 

 Klug, B. neglectus, Hope, B. rotundatus, Hope, and B. rubescens, 

 Hope, Mr. Westwood adds figures, either of the whole insect or of 

 the more distinctive parts. He also figures and describes a new sub- 

 genus with the following characters : — 



Subgenus Stenaspidius. 

 Corpus magis elongatum quam in Bolboceratis verts ; scutello elongato 

 (nee triangulari) ; elytris striis 5 tantum inter humeros et suturam ; 

 mesosterno porrecto. Differt etiam colore antennaru.m. 



Bolboceras (Stenaspidius) nigricornis; ovalis niger nitidus sparsim 



punctatus, capite tuberculo conico inter oculos, pronoto canali punetato 



medio aliisque duobus abbreviatis pone oculos, elytris striato-punctatis. 



— Long. corp. lin. 3 J. 



Hab. in Nova. Hollandia. In Mus. D. Hope (olim Gory, cum nomine 



supra indicato inscripto) . 



April 4. — E. Forster, Esq., V.P., in the Chair. 



Read some " Notes on the Vegetation of Scinde," extracted from 

 a Letter addressed by John Ellerton Stocks, Esq., M.D., to J. F. 

 Royle, Esq., M.D., F.R.S., F.L.S. &c, dated Bombay, November 

 25, 1847. 



The extracts consisted, first, of a sketch of the physical geogra- 



