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actual impressions when viewed from behind, but can be dis- 
cerned when examined sideways. 
Length, 2% ; breadth, 1 line. 
Another of Mr. Cheeseman’s captures on Mount Arthur, 
I have seen one mutilated specimen only. 
1345. Scopodes pustulatus,n.sp.—Sub-depressed, shining, head cu- 
preous reddish-black, elytra silky black slightly tinged with red, 
legs and antenne blackish. Head finely sculptured behind length- 
ways. Pvothovax moderately broad, laterally angulated near the 
middle, from that point curvedly narrowed, the margins incurved 
at the base without forming posterior angles ; surface finely and 
irregularly strigose, and with an obvious dorsal groove. Elytra 
broadly oblong, obliquely truncated behind, bearing shallow 
striz, and on each three large deep fovee. 
On comparing this species with S. Edwardsi, it will be noticed 
that the thorax is much broader and more sinuously contracted 
behind ; the elytra also are broader and their extremities more 
truncate, and on their sides, in line with the middle and hind 
thighs, are large, velvety-black, blister-like spots, most easily 
seen when looked at from behind. 
Length 2% by nearly 1 line. 
The only individual I have seen was sent to me from Wel- 
lington by Mr. P. Stewart-Sandager. 
WEE EENGS OF SOCIETIES. 
WELLINGTON PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 
8th July, 1882—W. T. L. Travers, Esq., president, in the 
chair. 
New members—Messrs. A. S. Atkinson, J. W. Byrne, J. L. 
meeeeey irvine, C.E., and T. B. Kirk, B.A. 
Papers—(1) ‘‘On the Manufacture of Granolithic Cement,” 
by J. C. Crawford, Esq. The material for this manufacture was 
stated by the author to be abundant in New Zealand. 
Dr. Hector considered this a question of great importance, 
and the information was most valuable. We had ample material 
in accessible positions, and he had no doubt that in time we could 
ourselves manufacture all the cement and concrete we required in 
the colony, and of the very best kind. He instanced the blocks 
now largely used here, and known as O’Neill’s patent flagging, as 
Showing the excellent quality of this production, which was so 
highly thought of at the Sydney and Melbourne Exhibitions. 
The President endorsed these views, and remarked that he 
hoped in time also to see the splendid granites we had, largely 
used in constructive works. 
Dr. Newman mentioned the newly-erected cement works in 
Nelson, which would prove of great importance, and entirely 
supersede the imported article. 
(2) ‘*‘ Hedge-plants for New Zealand.’ 
