4744 Entomological Society. 



Mr. Stevens exhibited a Dicranocephala, taken in China by Mr. Fortune, which 

 was thought to be distinct from D. Wallichii. 



Mr. Newman exhibited three species of the Australian genus Dcretaphrus, de- 

 scribed in the Appendix to the ' Zoologist,' p. 207, all of tliejn remarkable for the 

 excavation in the prothorax, from which the genus received its name: he added that 

 an admirable description and summary of the characters of this curious genus, from 

 the pen of that accomplished Coleopteiist, Mr. Wollaston, was prefixed to the 

 descriptions of the species. 



Mr. Newman also exhibited two beautiful specimens of that rare Australian beetle, 

 the Diphyllocera gemellata of Westwood, admirably described and figured in our 

 'Transactions,' vol. i. p. 214, and tab. xxii. fig. 1. They have been most obligingly 

 placed in Mr. Newman's hands by Mr. James Gibbon, together with an immense 

 number of rarities and novehies collected by himself at Moreton Bay. 



Mr. Newman also exhibited the unique specimen of Dohrnia miranda, one of the 

 Australian QEdemeridae, described by him at p. 133 of the Appendix to the ' Zoologist:' 

 he wished particularly to invite attention to the perfectly anomalous structure of the 

 antenna; of this insect. 



Remarkable variety of Cynthia Cardui. 



Mr. Newman also exhibited a specimen of Cynthia Cardui, showing a remarkable 

 aberration from the normal colouring: it was taken on the 8th of September, 1851, at 

 St. Lawrence, in the Isle of Wight, by Mr. George Ingall, who most obligingly 

 placed it in Mr. Newman's hands, and enabled him to draw up the following brief 

 description, which appeared at the time at p. 3304 of the ' Zoologist,' but the insect 

 never having been exhibited to the Society, Mr. Newman thought it might be 

 interesting : — 



"Upper side: fore wings. — In examples of Cynthia Cardui in its normal state, 

 the entire apical area is of a deep brown colour, approaching to black, and adorned 

 with certain white markings, the chief of which is a large oblong white blotch, 

 situated at about two-thirds of the costal margin, to which its upper extremity is 

 closely approximate; beyond this are four subrotund while spots disposed in an 

 irregular series, the first and fourth being considerably larger than those which are 

 intermediate, and again, beyond these, and still nearer the apex of the wing, is a 

 sinuous series of five slender white lunules: in the aberrant example the large white 

 waik, as well as the lunules, are entirely absent; the four subrotnnd spots are present, 

 but altered in form, and having indistinct and suffused limits: the lowest of the four 

 is increased to treble its normal dimensions, and, united to an equally large and 

 similarly shaped white spot in the adjoining areolet, and again, in the next areolet, 

 i.e., the one still nearer the anal angle of the wing, is still another smaller round 

 white spot: in normal specimens the fulvous discoidal area is blotched with very dark 

 amorphous patches, in the aberrant example these are entirely absent, the discoidal 

 area being uninterruptedly fulvous : in the normal state the black border of the anal 

 portion of the external margin is of an intense dark brown, in the aberrant example 

 it is much paler, and increased to double its usual width. Upper side : hind wings. — 

 In normal examples of this species there is an interrupted band of dark hrown 

 markings across the discoidal area; nearer the exterior margin is a series of five 

 round black spots, one in each of the open areolets, with the exception of that nearest 



