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side leading to Queenborough, and about half-a-mile from the spot where it was 

 originally discovered. On turning the clods I found in company with Amara con- 

 vexiuscLila and a host of Harpalidae, Anisodactylus poeciloides, of which I secured an 

 ample supply, in all its beautiful varieties of green, purple and copper : as there is 

 reason to suppose that no other station yields this insect so plentifully, I have deemed 

 the record not unworthy a corner in the 'Zoologist.' — A, Haivanl ; Gloucester Road, 

 Croj/don, August 23, 1858. 



Calosoma Sycophanta near Bristol. — On the 30th of June last Miss Powell, of 

 Henbury, had the good fortune to secure a perfect specimen of this magnificent beetle, 

 conspicuous alike for its rarity and beauty ; it is probable that a living specimen has 

 never before been seen in this part of England. With the greatest liberality Miss 

 Powell has presented me with her specimen. — P. V. Vaughan ; Redlands, Bristol. 



Proceedings of Societies, 

 Entomological Society. 

 September 6, 1858.— Dr. Gray, President, in the Chair. 



Donations. 



The following donations were announced, and thanks ordered to be given to the 

 donors: — 'Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung,' Nos.4 — 9; presented by the Entomo- 

 logical Society of Stettin. The 'Zoologist' for September; by the Editor. The 

 'Journal of the Knyal Agricultural Society of England,' Vol. xix. Part 1; by the 

 Society. 'Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society,' Vol. iii. No. 9 ; by the 

 Society. ' Catalogue of the Birds in the Museum of the Hon. East India Company,' 

 by Thomas Horsfield, M. and Ph. D., F. K. S., Keeper of the Company's Museum, and 

 Frederic Moore, Assistant ; by the Court of Directors. The ' Journal of the Society of 

 Arts ' for August ; by the Society. The ' Literary Gazette ' for August ; by the Editor. 

 The ' Athenaeum ' for August j by the Editor. 



Exhibitions. 



Mr. Janson exhibited, on the part of Mr. H. Squire, a box of Coleoptera, collected 

 by him during a visit which he had just made to the Shetland Isles, and remarked, that 

 considering the period of the year at which this trip uas undertaken, his short stay of 

 a week only, and the limited district which he had investigated (for the unpropitious 

 state of the weather had precluded him from extending his excursions beyond three 

 miles from Lerwick) the series now before the Meeting must be looked upon as highly 

 satisfactory. The number of species amounts to one hundred and twenty-five, and, 

 although the major portion of them are forms familiar to every London entomologist, 

 still there are among them several to which he would direct the attention of the 

 Meeting. 



The first of these is apparently a species altogether new to the British list, the 

 veritable Nebria (Carabus) nivalis of Paykull, which Drs. Kraatz and Schaum have 

 recently shown is not identical with N. Gyllenhalli, Schom/i., as had been generally 

 supposed. The specimens now under consideration differ from N. Gyllcnhalli (the 



