3096 Entomological Society. 



Thaumantis Howqua, Westivood. 



T. alis supra fulvis omnium serie subapicali lunularum nigrarum valde curvatarum, 

 maculis liastiformis nigris in alis posticis majoribus, antice adjectis ; alis infra 

 luteo fulvis strigis duabus obliquis irregulariter sinuatis lma ante et 2da pone 

 medium alarum anticarum, et ante et per medium posticarum, extensis externa 

 e costa fere ad angulum analem ducta ubi recurrat; nubila recta obliqua fusca 

 submedia ad angulum analem extensa, macula grisea terminata ; alis anticis 

 ocellis tribus, posticis quinque rufis, pupilla alba iride tenui nigra, strigisque 

 duabus parallelis vix angulatis prope marginem apicalem. Mas. 



Hab. — Shanghai, China, D. Fortune. 



In Mus. Britann. 



Drusilla Myl^echa, Westivood. 



D. alis niveis, omnium utrinque costa nigricantis posticis subtus ocellis duobus 

 magnis sequalibus nigris pupilla minima alba circulo latiori fulvo, alteroque 

 tenui nigro circumcinctis, capite thoraceque subtus nigris ; palpis fulvis ; ab- 

 domine lutescenti. Mas et fcem. 



Hab. in Insulis Louissiadis maris Indici, D. Mac Gillivray. 



In Mus. Britann. 



The President also read ' Descriptions of Three New Genera of Exotic Coleoptera 

 remarkable for possessing an external resemblance to groups to which they do not 

 belong.' The first species, Paromia Dorcoides, from Columbia, unique in the cabinet 

 of M. Reich, in Paris, has in fact been mistaken for a small species of Lucanidae, to 

 which family, however, it only bears a relation of analogy, its affinity being to the 

 genus Ips. The second species, Cossyphodes Wollastoni, of which only a single spe- 

 cimen was found by Mr. Wollaston, under a stone, at Madeira, has a very close prima 

 facie resemblance to the heteromerous genus Cossyphus ; while it is among the genera 

 originally placed by Latreille among the Xylophaga, but separated therefrom by Mac- 

 Leay and introduced among the Necrophaga, that we must look for its true relations. 

 The third species, Eucliffita Scaritides, in his own collection, from New Zealand, re- 

 markable for the long setae on its sides, appears by its slender filiform antennas and 

 general form to belong to the Scaritidae ; but it is really most nearly related to 

 Trogosita. 



Mr. Stainton exhibited a species of Tineidae, forming the type of a new genus very 

 near to Pterolonche of Zeller ; he proposed to call the insect Limnaecia Phragmitella. 

 It was captured by Mr. S. Stevens, in the marshes at Hammersmith, and a specimen 

 is in the collection of Mr. Shepherd. 



Mr. Stainton exhibited, on the part of Mr. Logan, a drawing of a new species 

 of Lithocolletis ; and read a description of the insect under the name of L. nigrescen- 

 tella, Logan. 



M. Stainton also exhibited a new Tinea, taken flying in the streets of Liverpool, 

 by Mr. C. S. Gregson. Mr. Stainton proposed for it the name of pallescentella. — 

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