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pedibus piceis. Long. corp. lin. 7 J. Inhabits Sierra Leone. 

 This species seems to unite Compsiura, H. with Diploqnatha, 

 G. and P. 



Stripsipher ambiguus, H. Niger, aureo-pubescens ; clypeo antice 

 porrecto, thorace punctatissimo, lateribus angulatis, scutello mag- 

 no punctulato ; elytris lineis 4 elevatis alidque abbreviatd mar- 

 ginali. Long. corp. lin. 6|. Inhabits Sierra Leone. Lieut. 

 Sayers. 



Cetonia Withillii, B. Cuprea, thorace maculis duabus minutis dis- 

 coidalibus albis ; elytris flavo-maculatis, corpore infra roseo- 

 cupreo maculato ; pedibus cupreis. Long. corp. lin. 12^. In- 

 habits the East Indies. Col. Withill. 



Cetonia Saundersii, B. Supra aurato-viridis nitida punctatissima 

 albo-guttata, antennis tarsisque nigricantibus , elytris apice inermi- 

 bus, abdomine utrinque albo-maculato. Long. corp. lin. 8. In- 

 habits the East Indies. W. W. Saunders, Esq. Allied to Cct. 

 albo-guttata, Vig. 



Amphistoros affinis, B. Nigra, thorace lineis tribus albis, elytris 

 flavis ad apicem albo-punctatis, ano utrinque macald rotundatd, 

 corpore infra nigro-piceo, medio abdominis concolori, lateribus 

 albo-maculatis. Long. corp. lin. 7. Inhabits Sierra Leone. 

 Allied to Cet. elata, Fab. and Amph. varians, G. and P. 



Stethodesma, H. Forma Gymnetidis. Clypeus fssus. Thorax 

 trigonus, postice disco protenso. Elytra gradatim e basi ad 

 apicem attenuata, medio acuminata. Sternum valde prominens, 

 antice porrectum. Femora anlica bispinosa, 4 postica inermia. 



Stethodesma Strachani, H. Nigricans rubro marginata, elytris 

 atris postice albo-punctatis apiceque rubro, corpore infra rubro- 

 piceo, segmentis abdominis serie duplici macularum. Long. corp. 

 lin. 12^. Inhabits Sierra Leone. P. S. Strachan, Esq. 



Observations on the Scolia fulva. By W. E. Shuckard, Esq. 



A female of this species was figured from the collection of the 

 Rev. F. W. Hope, in Griffith's ' Animal Kingdom,' in which a very 

 short description was given of it with the erroneous locality of South 

 America, the species being from New Holland. Mr. Hope having 

 obtained the other sex, Mr. Shuckard gives a detailed description of 

 the species, which belongs to the first section of the genus with three 

 submarginal cells and two recurrent nerves. "It is very rare in 

 coloured Scolia that the sexes are alike, but here we have a complete 

 resemblance, except in structural details peculiar to the sexes." 

 Observations on some Mummied Beetles. By the Rev. F. W. Hope. 



The insects noticed in this communication were taken from the 

 inside of a mummied Ibis by Sir Gardner Wilkinson, and belonged 

 to two genera, Pimeliapilosa, F., (Trachy derma pilosa, Latr.) and Akis 

 rejlexa, Fab., both of which are met with in great abundance in 

 Egypt at the present day. Several entire specimens of the former 

 and the limbs of others, with sundry limbs of other insects, were 

 obtained. A specimen of Trachy derma pilosa is also attached to the 



