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Show 260 MR. C. O. WATERHOUSE ON [Feb. 15, ridion simile, C. L. Koch, and several other small Spiders of same or nearly allied genera. It was very possible that there might be more than one species of parasite among the larvae, and an interesting point thus remained to be worked out by students of Hymenopterous parasites. Mr. E. W . H. Holdsworth, F.Z.S., exhibited a specimen of White's Thrush, Turdus varius, Pall., which had been killed near Ashburton, Devon, during the severe cold weather in January last. This bird was one of a flock of four or five of apparently the same species, and was stated to be the ninth recorded example of this eastern Thrush obtained in England since 1828. The following papers were read :- 1. On the Coleopterous Insects belonging to the family Hispida collected by Mr. Buckley in Ecuador. By C H A S . O. W A T E R H O U S E . (Communicated by Dr. A. G U N T H E R , F.R.S., F.Z.S., &c.) [Received January 27, 1881.] (Plate XXX.) The object of the present paper is to give an account of the collected by Mr. Buckley in Ecuador. The number of species hitherto recorded as inhabiting that country is only seventeen; of these Mr. Buckley found fifteen, as well as nineteen new species, making a total of thirty-six species. The following are the descriptions of the new species, which appear to have all been collected at Sarayacu, with the exception of Cephalolia la?ta, which is from the Balzar Mountains, and Cephalo-donta lycoides, which is from Chiguinda. All the specimens are in the British Museum, the fine series collected by Mr. Buckley having been presented to the Trustees by Messrs. Godman & Salvin. The two species to which an asterisk is prefixed were not met with by Mr. Buckley. 1. PROSOPODONTA SCUTELLARIS, n. sp. (Plate XXX. fig. 19.) P. nigra, opaca ; thorace ante medium oblique angustato, sat crebre punctato, elytris ferrugineis, fortiter punctato-striatis, secundo guartoque paulo elevatis nitidis. Long. 6 lin. Head dull, smooth, with a small frontal fovea. Thorax one fifth broader than long, dull, convex, impressed at the base before the scutellum, subparallel at the sides till near the front, where it is then arcuately narrowed to the head ; very strongly and irregularly punctured, the punctures rather close at the base, more separated ante- |