Entomological Society. 4130 



On comparing examples of Ophiocoma rosula, gathered on this coast, 

 with others from a distance, and particularly with one from Ayrshire, 

 which I owe to the kindness of Major Martin, of Ardrossan, I find 

 differences nearly as great as those above referred to. For instance, 

 one set as compared with another, are fuller and rounder ; some are 

 deeply pentangular and others circular ; some are strongly spinous 

 and others very slightly so ; and in some, again, the triangular plates 

 cover about half the disk, while in others of average size these plates are 

 so small or obscured, that careful inspection is necessary in order to 

 become satisfied of their existence. However the matter may prove 

 eventually, I feel warranted in submitting these observations, and 

 am ready to afford every facility in my power with a view to 

 its determination. 



Ophiocoma rosula. After the above reference to this species, I 

 need only observe that here, as elsewhere, it is very abundant, and of 

 great variety of colour, as brown, red, pink, purple, variegated, &c. 

 Perhaps the majority of the specimens obtained here last season were 

 more or less pentangular in the form of the disk, but in this respect 

 there appears to be little uniformity. Three very small, measuring 

 only one-sixteenth, of an inch across the disk, I was willing to 

 set down to the account of Ophiocoma minuta ; but surrendering my 

 reserve to the better judgment of a highly valued and accomplished 

 friend, whose name I have already had occasion oftener than once to 

 write in the course of these observations, I place them under the 

 parental care of this our familiar rosy friend. 



George Harris. 



Gamrie, Banffshire, November, 1852. 



Proceedings of the Entomological Society. 



November 7, 1853. — J. O. Westavood, Esq., Vice-president, in the chair. 



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

 donors: — The 'Zoologist' for November; by the Editor. The 'Literary Gazette' for 

 October ; by the Editor. The ' Athenaeum ' for October ; by the Editor. The 'Jour- 

 nal of the Society of Arts' for October ; by the Society. ' Revue et Magasin de Zoo- 

 logie,' Nos. 7 and 8, 1853; by the Editor, M. Guerin-Meneville. A lithographic 

 portrait of the late Dr. W. A. Bromfield, framed and glazed ; by his sister, Miss 

 Bromfield. Lists of the British Tineids, for marking the desiderata to the Society's 

 Collection ; by E. C. Buxton, Esq. A box of South American Lepidoptera, in the 

 finest condition, and containing several new species ; by Thomas Jones Stevens, Esq., 

 of Bogota, Corr. M.E.S. A box of British Lepidoptera, including a hermaphrodite 



