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Entomological Society. 



Mr. Adam White mentioned that he had just received an interesting letter from 

 Mr. Gloyne, now a student in Geneva. Mr. Gloyne had been making excursions in 

 the neighbourhood of that Swiss city, and was struck with the occurrence of species of 

 Coleoptera not met with in Great Britain, but associated with species of common 

 occurrence in our islands. He had not himself taken Omophron limbatum, but a 

 friend of Mr. Gloyne's found that curious geodephagous beetle in banks, by pouring 

 water on them here and there, when little groups of eight or ten individuals were some- 

 times met with. 



Mr. Adam White remarked that he was glad to see in Dr. Schaum's new * Catalogue 

 of the European Coleoptera,' that the learned chief compiler of that Catalogue had 

 separated the Brenthida? from the Curculionidae, and placed them close to the Longi- 

 corn Beetles. 



Mr. White added that he had, some time back, tried to show at a Meeting of the 

 Linnean Society, where he had exhibited the specimen of the rare Hypocephalus 

 Desmarestii, belonging to J. Aspinall Turner, Esq., M.P., that Hypocephalus 

 belonged to the Longicorns, and was close to Dorysthenes. He had then dwelt on 

 the Brenthidae not being far removed from the Longicorns ; some, such as the great 

 Eutrachelus Temminckii of Java, showing this affinity most markedly. He alluded 

 to Mr. Curtis's paper on that insect, with its fine drawing. Mr. White expressed 

 himself pleased that in a Catalogue like Schaum's, philosophical arrangement, 

 founded on an extensive study of the Coleoptera of all countries, had led Dr. Schaum 

 to place Amorphocephalus, the solitary European representative of the Brenthidae, 

 just before the Longicorns. 



The Secretary read a letter from L. Lardner, Esq., accompanying some living 

 larvae, apparently of a species of Curculio, from Calcutta, feeding on poppy seeds, 

 received from Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy. 



Mr. Stevens read the following extract from a letter just received, addressed to 

 him by Mr. A. R. Wallace, dated Batchian, Moluccas, October 29th, 1858 :— 



"As there is now a boat going which may just catch the mail at Ternate, I write 

 a few lines to let you know of my having arrived here safe and commenced operations. 

 I came here in a small hired boat with my own men, luckily it was fine weather, or 

 100 miles at sea with no means of cooking and only room for one day's water, would 

 have been more than unpleasant. I stopped five days at the Kaiod Islands, just half 

 way, and got a nice collection of beetles, a fair number of new species, and some 

 curious varieties of those before found at Ternate and Gilolo. I have only been here 

 five days, but from what I have already done, and the nature of the country, I am 

 inclined to think it may prove one of the best localities I have yet visited ; I have 

 already twenty species of Longicorns new to me, nothing very grand, but many pretty 

 and very interesting ; the most remarkable is one of the Bornean genus, Triammatus, 

 also several species of the elegant little genus Serixia, which have been very scarce or 

 absent since I left Sarawak ; I have also an elegant new Pachyrhynchus, a fine Ips, 

 a small new Cicindela, and a small new species of Therates. In butterflies I have 

 taken an imperfect specimen of a glorious new species very like Papilio Ulysses, but 

 distinct, and even handsomer ! I have also seen a female of a grand new Ornithop- 

 tera, but cannot say what the male will prove to be. I have several times seen what 

 I think is a new species allied to Papilio Codrus, but they are too wild to catch : the 



