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a beetle new to Britain, and Tinea ochraceella, of Tengstrom ; the latter species had 

 been found by Mr. Weaver in ants' nests. 



Mr. Bond exhibited some rare Lepidoptera he had taken at Ventnor, in August, 

 including Agrotis lunigera, Catoptria pupillana, Depressaria caprella, rotundella, 

 Douglasella, nanatella and pallorella. 



The President exhibited on behalf of Mr. G. Ransome, a very fine Deilephila 

 Celerio recently taken at Ipswich. 



Mr. W. F. Evans exhibited four specimens of a Culex, which had accidently been 

 enclosed in a letter received from Commander Pullen, dated Great Slave Lake, 28th 

 June, 1850, in latitude 61 degrees. The great abundance and intolerable annoyance 

 of these little pests in high latitudes, had been mentioned by Sir G. Back, in his ac- 

 count of the Arctic Land Expedition, in 1833 ; and by Sir John Franklin, in his 

 account of his journey to the Polar Sea in 1819 — 22. 



The President read a letter from M. Blisson, requesting from the members of the 

 Society, information concerning certain British Coleoptera, to be incorporated in a 

 work he was preparing on that order. 



Mr. W. W. Saunders read a paper on Australian Longicorns, of which the follow- 

 ing is an abstract. The paper is accompanied by two coloured plates. 



The author observed, that a great many interesting forms among the smaller Lon- 

 gicorns having, during the last few years, been brought to this country from our Aus- 

 tralian colonies, he had thought that an account of them would be interesting to ento- 

 mologists, particularly if he combined with them, figures and short descriptions of 

 some of the interesting nearly allied forms, which had previously only been described, 

 but wanted good portraits to point out their structure. 



First Division. Wings not abbreviated ; eyes rounded or ovate. 



Genus — E nchopte ra. 

 Nearly allied to Macrones of Newman, but differs in the longer thorax which is 

 nearly smooth on the sides, and the longer and pointed snout. 



Sp. 1. Enchoptera apicalis. 

 Dark chesnut-brown, with the forehead and apices of the femora black, the three 



terminal joints of the antennae yellow, and the elytra yellowish brown. 

 Length -^ inch. 

 From Van Diemen's Land. 



Sp. 2. Enchoptera nigricornis. 

 Head pale chesnut-brown : antennae pitchy brown inclining to black : elytra pale 



chestnut-brown, clothed with yellowish pubescence : legs pitchy-brown with 



the anterior and middle thighs yellowish brown. 

 Length £ inch. 

 From New South Wales. 



Genus — Macrones, Newman, Entomologist, p. 33. 

 Sp. 1. Macrones exilis, Newman. 

 Black, with the sides of the thorax dark rufous brown : elytra yellowish brown, 

 with four darker elevated ridges, and the posterior tarsi white. 



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