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He also exhibited and made remarks on the leg-bones of an extinct 

 Dinornithine bird from New Zealand, upon which he proposed to base a 

 new species allied to Pachyornis elephantopus (Owen), and to call it, after 

 the owner of the specimen, Pachyornis rothschildi. 



Dr. A. Giinther read a description of a remarkable new fish from 

 Mauritius, belonging to the genus Scorpmna, which he proposed to call 

 Scorpcena fro?idosa. 



A communication was read from Mr. Roland Trimen, containing an 

 account of the occurrence of a specimen of the scarce fish, Lophotes 

 cepedianus, Giorna, at the Cape of Good Hope. 



A communication was read from the Hon. L. W. Rothschild, giving a 

 description of a little-known species of Fapilio from the island of Lifu, 

 Loyalty Group. 



Mr. R. J. Lechmere Guppy read some remarks on a fine specimen of 

 Pleurotomario from the island of Tobago. 



A communication was read from Mr. L. Peringuey, giving an account 

 of a series of beetles collected in Tropical S.W. Africa by Mr. A. W. 

 Eriksson. — P. L. Sclater, Secretary. 



Entomological Society of London. 



Nov. 4, 1891.— Dr. David Sharp, M.A., F.R.S., Vice-President, in 

 the chair. 



Major John Nathaniel Still, of Seaton, Devon, and the Junior United 

 Service Club, Charles Street, St. James's, S.W., was elected a Fellow of 

 the Society. 



Mr. W. F. Kirby exhibited a series of a very dark-coloured form of Apis 

 reared by Mr. John Hewett, of Sheffield, from bees imported from Tunis, 

 which he proposed to call " Punic Bees." They were larger than the black 

 Apis unicolor, Latr., of Mauritius and Bourbon, and were almost entirely 

 black, except in the legs, which were of a more or less reddish colour. 



Mr. C. G. Barrett exhibited five melanic specimens of Aplecta nebulosa, 

 reared by Mr. Collins, of Warrington, from larvae collected in Delamere 

 Forest, Cheshire, and described by him, in the ■ Proceedings of the Lan- 

 cashire and Cheshire Natural History Society,' as A. nebulosa, var. Bobsoni, 

 in honour of Mr. John E. Robson, of Hartlepool. Mr. Barrett also exhibited 

 a beautiful variety of Argynnis aglaia, taken in Norfolk by Dr.F. D.Wheeler, 

 and two specimens (male and female) of Lycmna argiades, taken in August, 

 1885, on Bloxworth Heath, Dorsetshire, by Mr. C. 0. Pickard-Cambridge 

 and Mr. A. Pickard-Cambridge respectively. 



Mr. H. St. John Donisthorpe exhibited a collection of Coleoptera, 

 comprising about thirty-six species, made in a London grauary in 1890 and 



