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his friend Mr. Motley, at Labuan. This species appearing to be identical with the 

 specimens brought from the Philippines by Mr. Cuming, was characterized under the 

 name of Megapodius Cumingii. Mr. Gould exhibited a mature specimen of Trochi- 

 lus Jardinii, and described some new species. Mr. Adams communicated a Catalogue 

 of the species of Nassa in the collection of Mr, Cuming. Mr. H. N. Turner commu- 

 nicated some observations on the suborbital gland in the Nylghiao. Mr. Yarrell 

 communicated an interesting letter by Mr. Dujuid, of Kirkwall, on the occurrence of 

 the deal fish in Orkney. The meeting then adjourned to April 8. 



Monthly General Meeting, April 3. — E. S. Rudge, Esq., F.R.S., in the chair. 



W. W. Rawlins, Esq. and G. M. Fast, Esq. were elected Fellows. 



F. Thompson, Esq. and G. R. Waterhouse, Esq. were proposed as candidates for 

 the Fellowship. 



The Report of the Council stated that the new buildings now in course of erec- 

 tion will be completed before the Anniversary, which takes place on the 29th of April. 

 The accessions to the Menagerie include a fine example of Grus carunculata, the lar- 

 gest species of crane, secretary bird, and several other objects of unusual interest from 

 South Africa and India. 



*** Since I transmitted to the Zoological Society the paper on Distichocera which 

 is reported in the April number of the ' Zoologist' (Zool. 3091), I have, through the 

 kindness of a correspondent, met with both sexes of a fourth and very distinct species, 

 a description whereof will be incorporated with the paper in question, and a specific 

 character whereof is appended below. 



Distichocera par. 



Sexuum amborum color par: testaceo-fusca, maris capite prothoracisque disco sa- 

 turatioribus ; omnino pilis cinereis obsita. (Maris long. corp. '525 unc. elytro- 

 rum lat max. *2 unc. Femince long. corp. '7 unc. elytrorum lat. max. *2 unc.) 

 — Edward Newman. 



Proceedings of the Entomological Society. 



April 1th, 1851. — J. 0. Westwood, Esq., President, in the chair. 



The following donations were announced, and thanks ordered to be given to the 

 donors thereof. — 'The Zoologist' for April, by E. Newman, Esq. 'Hints on the His- 

 tory and Management of the Honey-bee. By Edward Bevan, M.D.' Presented by 

 the author. A Portrait of the Rev. W. Kirby, on large paper ; by W. Spence, Esq. 

 Two copies of A Supplementary Catalogue of British Tineidae. By H. T. Stainton.' 

 Presented by the author. ' The Athenaeum,' from July, 1850 to March 1851 ; by the 

 Editor. ' The Literary Gazette,' January and February ; by the publishers. Bred 

 specimens of Catocala sponsa, C. promissa, Triphaena fimbria, and other British Lepi- 

 doptcra ; by Mrs. Vines. About 200 species of British Lepidoptera ; by Mr. Douglas. 



