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bus elevatis pallide virescentibus, corpore infra roseo-cupreo, pectore ca- 

 pillis longis flavescentibus obsito. Long. lin. 9f; lat. lin. \\. 

 Hab. in Montibus Himalayanis. 



Buprestid^e. 



Chrysochroa Edwardsii, viridi-aurata, thorace cupreo-purpureo, elytris 

 fascia irregulari macula flava insignitis, corpore subtus roseo-cupreo, 

 pedibus concoloribus. Long. lin. 27; lat. lin. 8f. 



This superb Buprestis approaches most nearly to that named Pe- 

 rot tetii by M. Guerin. 



LONGICORNES. 



Monochamus sulphur if er , corpore toto supra et infra flavo-sulphureo, 

 antennis pedibusque nigro cinereoque variegatis. Long. lin. 13 ; lat. 

 lin. 4f . 



Purpuricenus rubripennis, violaceus, elytris rubro-marginatis macula sub- 

 quadrata. in medio disco insignitis, pedibus concoloribus. Long. lin. 15 ; 

 lat. lin. 4. 



Zonoptehus, Hope. 



Caput mandibulis arcuatis, fronte declivi, cornu brevi utrinque ad basin 

 antennarum. Antenna: 1 1-articulatae, articulo basali apice crassiore, 

 2do minimo, 3tio longissimo, 4to fere dimidio minore, b' sequentibus 

 fere sequalibus, ultimo longiore acuto. Thorax depressus, capite duplo 

 longior. Elytra thorace triplo longiora, parallela, apicibus rotundatis. 

 Pedes femoribus 4 anterioribus incrassatis, posticis duplo majoribus 

 subcompressis ; tibiis posticis subincurvis. 



Zonopterus favitarsis, niger, antennis bicoloribus, thorace nigro-tomen- 

 toso, elytris flavo-bifasciatis, femoribus tibiisque atris, tarsis flavis. 

 Long. lin. 15 ; lat. lin. 4. 



Colobothea rubricollis, rubro-picea, antennis concoloribus, elytris nigri- 

 cantibus maculis flavo-ochraceis aspersis. Long. lin. 15 ; lat. lin. 4. 



SagridjE. 



Sagra Carbunculus, cyanea, elytris igne auroque micantibus, pedibus pos- 

 ticis incrassatis ; tibiis incurvis. Long. lin. 4|. 



BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



March 18, 1842.— John Edward Gray, Esq., F.R.S., &c, President, 



in the Chair. 



The following donations were announced :— Parts 1, 2 and 3 of 

 * Algae Damnonienses,' and Fasciculus 1 of Berkeley's 'British Fungi,' 

 presented by Mrs. Margaret Stovin. The following specimens were 

 exhibited : Oxalis stricta, collected at Penzance, and presented by 

 the Royal Horticultural Society of Cornwall ; Elaodendron Argan 

 (Retz.), collected in the province of Haha, near Deabet, Barbary, by 

 Dr. W. H. Willshire, and presented by him; Hypnum polymorphum 

 (Hedw.), collected on the sands of Barrie, Forfarshire, by Mr. Wm. 

 Gardiner, jun., and presented by him. 



A paper was read from Edwin Lees, Esq., F.L.S., &c, being 

 " Remarks on the Flora of the Malvern Hills in the counties of Wor- 

 cester, Hereford, and Gloucester ; Part 2, the Hills and their imme- 

 diate Roots." 



In geological language the Malvern Hills form an eruptive or ig- 

 neous chain, stretching in a narrow ridge nearly due north and south 

 for upwards of nine miles. Quartz, felspar, mica and hornblende are 



