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insect may be known by its shorter elytra, and by the presence of the accessory row of 

 punctures above mentioned. These three species have no oblique punctures on the 

 sides of the thorax, but Fairmaire (loc. s<tp. cit. 493, 5) erroneously includes M. annu- 

 laris in a section of the genus which he specifies as possessing these punctures. The 

 normal colour of M. nanus appears to be black, with the apex of the elytra rufo- 

 testaceous, hut it seems to vary considerably in this respect, having sometimes the 

 thorax and elytra pitchy, rufo-piceous, or testaceous, with the head darker. The 

 British specimen I have examined is a small example of one of those varieties, being 

 rufo-piceous, with the head and abdomen darker, the latter having the hinder margins 

 of the segments and the entire apical segment testaceous. There appears to be 

 another small species closely allied to M. nanus, also possessing a reduplicated dorsal 

 stria, but not yet recorded as British ; I allude to M. tenuis, Mulsant. This species is 

 more linear in shape, more uniformly (and I believe invariably) light in colour, the 

 joints of the antennoe more transverse, and the accessory dorsal stria more complete. — 

 E. C. Rye; 284, Kings Road, Chelsea, May 9, 1863. 



Proceedings of Societies. 

 Entomological Society. 

 May 4, 1863. — Frederick Smith, Esq., President, in the chair. 



Donations. 



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

 respective donors : — ' The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London,' Vol. xxiii. 

 Part III., Vol. xxiv. Part I. ; presented by the Society. 1 Bulletin de la Societe Lin- 

 neenne de Normandie,' Vols. i. — vii., 1855 — 62 ; by the Society. ' Annales de la 

 Societe Entomologique de France,' 3e Serie, Vol. iii., Trim. 2 — 4, 1855; Vol. vii., 

 Trim. 1—4, 1859 ; Vol. viii., Trim. 1—4, 1860 ; 4e Serie, Vol. L, Trim. 1—4, 1861 ; 

 Vol. ii., Trim. 1 — 4, 1862 ; by the Society. ' Descriptions of Twenty New Species of 

 Australian Coleoptera belonging to the Families Cicindelidae and Cetouiidae,' 1 De- 

 scriptions of Twenty New Species of Buprestida) belonging to the Genus Sligmodera, 

 from the northern parts of Australia,' by William MacLeay, juu., Esq., M.L.A. ; by 

 the Author. 1 The Intellectual Observer' for May ; by the Publishers. ' The Zoolo- 

 gist' for May; by the Editor. 'The Journal of the Society of Arts' for April; by 

 the Society. * The Athenaeum ' for April ; by the Editor. ' The Reader' for April ; 

 by the Editor. ' The Weekly Entomologist' for 1862—3 ; by the Editor. A Col- 

 lection of upwards of 100 Volumes of Works on Bees and Bee-keeping ; deposited in 

 the Library by the Apiarian Society, on certain conditions embodied in a Minute of 

 Council dated the 6th of April, 1863. 



Exhibitions, fyc. 



Mr. S. Stevens exhibited a collection of insects from the Feeje Islands, consisting 

 principally of Coleoptera, and comprising many new species ; also a collection from 

 Madagascar, sent home by Mr. Plant, containing Coleoptera and some fine Lepi- 

 doptera, conspicuous amongst which was a new Diadema ; also a collection from the 

 Cape of Good Hope, sent by Mr. Trimen ; also some spiders of enormous size from 



