Entomological Society. 5027 



Mr. Westvvood called attention to some glasses on the table, containing water- 

 beetles collected for the purpose of stocking aquariums, by Mr. F. S. Leach. 



Mr. J. A. Turner exhibited a box of Coleoptera from Texas, containing many fine 

 specimens of Longicorns ; he also exhibited a splendid pair of Goliathus giganteus, 

 from the Gaboon Kiver, West Africa. 



Mr. Stainton exhibited a specimen of Calliraorpha Hera, and read a letter on 

 the subject, addressed to him by Mr. Cooke, of Pelham Terrace, Brighton. 



Mr. Newman communicated the following : — 



Characters of Three Pseudomorphina in the Cabinet of Mr. Waterhouse. 



" Mr. Waterhouse having most obligingly lent me his collection of Pseudomorphina, 

 I have given the specimens a somewhat careful examination, and find three species 

 which I suppose to be undescribed. I take the liberty of offering to the Society brief 

 descriptions of these, and at the same time of soliciting the opportunity of examining 

 other collections of these interesting insects. 



" Pseddomokpha amaroides, Newman. 



" Lcevis, glabra ; antennis, sterno, ventre, pedibusque piceis ; capite nigro, labrofer- 

 rugineo ; prothoracis et elytrorum disco nigro, marginibus arete at manifesto 

 ferrugineis. (Corp. long. "3 unc. elytrorum lat '15 unc.) 



" Smooth, shining, black above, pitchy black beneath ; antennae pitchy black ; head 

 smooth, with two obscure foveas on the epicranium between the eyes, black, the labrum 

 and mandibles bright ferruginous, the latter with the apices pitchy black ; prothorax 

 black, its lateral margins slightly dilated and recurved, and brightly ferruginous ; near 

 its posterior margin are two shallow ill-defined fovea? ; the scutellum is conspicuous, 

 triangular, acute and extremely glabrous ; elytra black, their costal margin continuous 

 with the lateral margins of the prothorax, and like them slightly dilated and recurved, 

 and brightly ferruginous ; at the base of each, very near the scutellum, is an obscure 

 fovea ; the posterior margin is sinuate, truncate, and tinged with dusky ferruginous, 

 the marginal ferruginous line of prothorax and elytra is very narrow, but extremely 

 well defined ; the entire upper surface of head, prothorax and elytra is covered with 

 very minute confluent punctures ; these are only discernable under a lens of high power, 

 and scarcely detract from the general glabrous appearance of the insect. 



" There is a single specimen, the only one I have seen, in Mr. Waterhouse's cabi- 

 net. Its habitat is 3753. 



" Although the genus Amara is now banished from our catalogues, the mind of the 

 British Coleopterist, clinging fondly to the word, will see the drift of my specific name, 

 should he ever meet with this pretty antipodean. Its size and figure at once call to 

 mind the most familiar species of that most familiar genus. 



" Adelotopus ephippiatus, Newman. 



" Lavis, nitida, picea, elytrorum pagind basali late testacea, prothoracis latera pal- 

 lidiora valde dilatata etreflexa ; prothorax elytris latior. (Corp. long. *2 unc. 

 elytrorum lat. *075 unc.) 



" Smooth, shining, pitchy black; the sides of the thorax and the entire under sur- 

 face of the insect inclining to ferruginous ; the elytra at their base adorned with a 



