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Entomological Society. 



Esq., of Park Row, Greenvvicli, were elected Members ; and Joseph Stevens, Esq., of 

 Upper Eithmond Road, Wandsworth, a Subscriber to the Society. 



Exhibitions. 



Mr. Majendie sent for exhibition a piece of beech bark covered with a white sub- 

 stance, which Mr. Westwood pronounced to be a secretion exuded from the body of 

 the female of a species of Coccus, of which the male is as yet unknown. 



Mr. Shepherd exhibited specimens of Stenus solutns, Erichs., taken in the Lon- 

 don district, observinp: that the species had been recorded as British in Mr. Water- 

 house's recently published Catalogue, on the authority of a single specimen in the 

 collection of Dr. Power. 



Mr. W. F. Evans sent for exhibition living examples of the larva and imago of a 

 species of the Rliynchophorous genus Prypnus, Srhoenh., which he had found in 

 bulbs imported from the Cape of Good Hope. 



Mr. Horace Francis exhibited various Coleoptera which he had met with in the 

 vicinity of Folkestone, in September last, including beautiful examples of Anchome- 

 nus livens, Gi/IL, and Ocypus (Goerius) cvaneus, Eab. 



Mr. Janson exhibited the following Coleoptera, recently captured by him within a 

 short distance of the metropolis: — 



Codes Ilelopioides, Fab., a species which he had not before taken, and which ap- 

 pears to be this year unusually abundant, having been found in considerable numbers 

 in Kent, by Mr, Lewis, Mr. Douglas, Dr. Power and others ; the series now before 

 the Meeting were taken in the adjoining county of Surrey. 



Badister peltatus. Panzer, a single individual found on the 19th of March last, 

 under loose bark of willow, in the notorious Hammersmith, or, perhaps more cor- 

 rectly, Shepherd's Bush Marshes. The synonymy of and references to this species 

 should be thus expressed: Carabus peltatus, Panzer, Faun. Ins. Germ. Fas. xxxvii. 

 tab. 20 (1797), probably figured and described from a very immature specimen, with 

 the head and thorax ferruginous, the elytra pale brassy, and the antennae and legs 

 entirely testaceous, a state of things so different from the ordinary aspect of the insect 

 as to render identification, if not impossible, at least very problematical and unsatis- 

 factory; llliger, Verzeichn. d. K'dfer Preuss. 197,80 (1798); Duft. Faun. Austr. ii. 

 147, 193 (1812). Amblychus peltatus, Gi/ll. Ins. Suec. ii. 76, 2 (1810). Trimorphus 

 Erro, Newman {olim), Ent. Mag. v. 489 (1838); Steph. Man. Brit. Col. 23, 134 

 (1839). Badister peltatus, Sturm, Deutschl. Faun. Ins. iii. 189, 3, tab. Ixxvi. fig. a, 

 A (1815); Dej. Spec. ii. 408, 4 (1826); Iconogr. ii. 226, 4, tab. 101, fig. 3 (1830); 

 Heer, Faun. Col. Hclv. i. 49, 3 (1838) ; Erich. Kdf. d. Mark Brand, i. 24, 4 (1839) ; 

 Schaum, Ent. Zeit. Stett. ix. 37 (1848); Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 2nd series, iii. 35 

 (1849); Netvman, Zool. 2276, 2277 (1848); L. Redtb. Faun. Austr. 82 (1849), 2nd 

 ed. 31 (1857); Datcson, Geod. Brit. 61, 3, tab. 1, fig. C (1854); Fairm. Laboulb. 

 Faun. Ent. Franc, i. 63, 4 (1854); Schaum, Naturg. d. Ins. Deutschl. i. 352, 4 

 (1857). 



Cossonus linearis, Linn., Schoenh., Steph., Walton. A species, judging from the 

 old cabinets, frequently met with in Britain in days of yore, but which has probably 

 not occurred for nearly twenty years, specimens having been taken by Dr. Power, in 

 Cambridgeshire, about that period, since which apparently no instance is on record of 

 its capture. The series now exhibited was taken a few days since in an old elm, which 

 literally teemed with the insect in all its stages, the semi-decayed portions of the tree 



