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and furnished with strong triangular jaws ; the six legs short and jointed ; the body 

 rather thickly clothed with short black hairs, and terminated by two large and very 

 strong, horny, conical appendages, which shut together on their inner edge. The 

 insect has the habit of burying its head in the sand, leaving exposed its strong for- 

 ceps-like caudal appendage, which it moves about so as to attract the attention of 

 passing insects, which, on approaching, are seized by it, and then conveyed to the 

 mouth and devoured. It thus has a certain amount of analogy with the ant-lion, but 

 is quite unlike thai insect, both structurally and in the details of its habits. 



" 2. Two larva? of another species of beetle, short, thick and fleshy, black in colour, 

 with a yellow head ; which seem to me to be referable to the family Chrysomelida?. 

 When crushed, they are employed by the natives for the purposes of poisoning the 

 lips of their arrows, which are dipped into the fluids of the body. 



"3. A species of tick, about a quarter of an inch long, with a granulated and 

 much-wrinkled body ; which burrows into the feet of the natives between the toes, 

 causing inflammation, which gradually ascends the legs, and other diseases. It is 

 closely allied to the so-called poisonous bug of Persia, Argas reflexus. With the spe- 

 men were about forty young, with the cast skins of the eggs from which they had 

 been hatched, and which were probably deposited by the female after being placed in 

 the box. 



"4. A species of the curious heteropterous genus Phyllomorpha, or dead-leaf bug, 

 closely allied to the Cimex paradoxus of Sparrmann, brought from the interior of 

 South Africa. It may be thus characterized : — 



" Phyllomorpha Livingstonii, Westw. 

 " Fusco albidoque varia, longe spinosa, capite et parte antica prothoracis linea tenui 

 media et hujus margine postico recto albis, lobis prothoracis maximis aliformibus, apice 

 oblique truncatis, angulo antico truncaturse acutissimo, lobis segmentorum 4 et 5 

 abdominalium maximis subaequalibus apice bipartitis, divisione singula acuminata. 

 Ph. Capicola et paradoxa duplo major. 



"5. The minute flat pupae of a species of Psylla found on the leaves of a species 

 of Bauhinia which cover themselves with a secretion similar to that of the Australian 

 Wo-me-la, which is also the produce of a species of Psylla, and which is scraped off 

 the leaves by the natives, and eaten as a saccharine dainty, as is also the case with 

 the secretion brought home by Dr. Livingstone by the natives of Central Africa. 



" 6. Dr. Livingstone has fully confirmed the statements of Major Varclon rela- 

 tive to the destructive powers of the tzetze (Glossina morsitans, Westw. in Proc. Zool. 

 Soc.) in its attacks upon horses, which it very often kills ; it appears, however, not to 

 attack asses." 



Mr. Wollaston exhibited various Coleoptera lately captured near Farnborough, in 

 Kent, in a high chalky valley belonging to Sir John Lubbock, including a series of 

 Homoeusa acuminata, M'derk., an insect which was hitherto unique as British, a single 

 example having been obtained by himself a year ago, from out of au ant's nest, in the 

 same locality. 1 He also exhibited specimens of Claviger testaceus and Lomechusa 

 emarginata, likewise from the nests of Formica fusca; and an example of a species of 

 Soopaeus, apparently the first detected in this country. The other species to which he 

 called attention were Callistus lunatus, Tritoma bipustulatum, Byrrhus dorsalis, and 

 some scarce Pselaphida?. 



