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in the meanwhile having shrunk still lower down, the anterior portion of the body had 

 now become much stouter and had a more healthy and fresher appearance ; the larva 

 now commenced feeding with great eagerness: at this period the dorsal vessel, which 

 had lately become more distinct at the fore and after part of the larva's body, was 

 quite hidden in the centre. On the 23rd the whole of the dorsal vessel was distinctly 

 visible, the anterior portion being of a much brighter green than the posterior." 



Professor Westwood exhibited drawings sent from Australia by Dr. Howitt, of two 

 species of Lucanidae; one was the species recently described by the Professor as Rys- 

 sonotus? jugularis; the other, the original of which was found in Gipps' Land, was 

 probably the male of Dorcus Pelorides, of which the female was in the British 

 Museum. 



Professor Westwood also called attention to a paper in the 'Tijdsehrift voor 

 Entomologie,' by Prof. Van der Hoeven, npon Periphyllus Testndo, a Hemipterous 

 insect, which always remained in an apterous state ; and to a paper on the Insects of 

 Ceylon, by M. Motschulsky, in the Bull, de la Soc. Imp. des Nat. de Moscou. 



Mr. Waterhouse exhibited British specimens of the following species of Homalota 

 which are not included in his ' Catalogue :' — 



1. Homalota velox, Kraatz. One specimen taken by Mr. Waterhouse at Brocken- 

 hurst, in the New Forest, and a specimen taken by Mr. Hislop in Scotland. 



2. Homalota flavipes, Thomson. Found on the banks of the Thames and Medway, 

 at Gravesend and near Strood. 



3. Homalota gemina, Erichson. From the Hammersmith Marshes. 



4. Homalota vilis, Erichson. 



5. Homalota picipes, Thomson. Atheta picipes, Skandinav. Coteopt. iii. 81, 30. 

 H. fusco-femorata, Waterh. MSS. 



6. Homalota angusticollis, Thomson, Of v. af. Vet. ae. Forh. 1856, 100, 22. Atheta 

 angusticollis, Thorns. Skandinav. Coleopt. iii. 87, 38, 



The following notes, having reference to some of the above-mentioned species, were 

 communicated to the Meeting : — 



" Homalota Vitis, Erichs., and H. picipes, Thorns. Of each of these two species I 

 have seen but a single specimen. The insects were captured (by myself, I believe), 

 long since, but their localities were not noted down. Of course with such scanty 

 material I should wish my determinations to be looked upon with some doubt. As 

 there already existed a species of Homalota bearing the name 'picipes' before 

 Thomson applied the name to the insect above noticed, I have substituted the name 

 * fusco-femorata ' for this insect. 



" Homalota flavipes = Halobrectha flavipes, Thorns.— Homalota maritima, Waterh. 

 MSS., and a nearly allied species H. puncticeps, Thorns. More than four years since 

 in examining my specimens of Homalota I distinguished two species as belonging to 

 Dr. Kraatz's third section of this genus, both of which are found under rejectamenta on 

 our sea-shores, and both are remarkable for having the head strongly punctured. They 

 have, moreover, the fore parts of the body pretty densely clothed with pubescense. 

 One of these insects is extremely like H. occulta, but has smaller antennae. It is black, 

 and has the antennae, palpi and legs more or less piceous ; the antennae without any 

 perceptible paler colouring at the base; the legs, with the tarsi, the knees, and the 

 tips of the tibiae, usually more or less testaceous. The head is very nearly equal in 

 width (and indeed in total bulk) to the thorax, the sides subparallel, and with the eyes 

 small and not prominent; the upper surface convex, thickly and distinctly punctured, 



