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Show 1889.] MR. P. L. SCLATER ON CONTINENTAL MENAGERIES. 219 nearly all of which have the elytra and the greater part of the under surface black (var. nigrans), which seems to be the prevailing form of the species; the pale yellowish form (described as L. xanthopheea from a single example) being therefore a variety. LEBIA CALLITREMA. L. comitatae (Bates) ex Japonid proxime afiinis et similis. Flavo-testacea, elytris vitta suturali postice sensim vel subito dilatata, paullo post scutellum incipienti et ante apicem terminata, nigra, strigaque abbreviata apud interstitium 8vum infuscata ; capite leevi; thorace mediocriter transverso ab angulis anticis rotunda! o-ampliato, postice vix perspicue angustato (lateribus levis-sime sinuatis), angulis posticis rectis, margine laterali late explanato-refiexo, lobo basali mediocriter elongato, dorso vage sed distincte strigoso ; elytris profunde striatis interstitiisque convexis. Tarsi articulo 4° anguste bilobato. Long. 6 millim. April 16, 1889. Dr. A. Giinther, F.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. The Secretary exhibited a pair of a fine large Buprestine Beetle of the genus Julodis (Julodis ffinchi, Waterh.) (see P. Z. S. 1885, p. 64), of which a single specimen had been previously transmitted by Mr. B. T. Ffinch, C.M.Z.S., in 1884, from Karachi. These specimens, likewise transmitted to the Society by Mr. Ffinch, . had been obtained in the same locality. The previous specimen was a female. The male was similar but narrower and smaller. It was proposed to deposit the specimens, in Mr. Ffinch's name, in the British Museum. The Secretary also exhibited a specimen of an Insect transmitted by Mrs. Talbot, wife of Major Talbot, Consul General of Bagdad. Mrs. Talbot wrote that this was a very destructive insect which abounds at Bagdad, and was called by the native gardeners " Harub." It was seldom seen above ground and made long burrows, throwing up the earth in ridges all over the garden and destroying a considerable number of young plants. Mr. C. O. Waterhouse, to whom Mr. Sclater had submitted the specimen, pronounced it to be the common Mole-cricket of Europe, Gryllotalpa vulgaris. Mr. Sclater made some remarks on the animals noticed in the Zoological Gardens of Rotterdam, Amsterdam, and Antwerp, which he had recently visited. In the Rotterdam Gardens, on a row of trees immediately adjoining the large covered Aviary in which the Night-Herons bred, |