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Show 1901.] ON THE RHYNCHOTA IN THE HOPE COLLECTION. 325 Mr. Sclater exhibited (on behalf of Mr. Phil Robinson) a copy of a copper-plate engraving made in 1771 by George Stubbs, Jr., from a painting by George Stubbs, Sr., which gave an excellent representation of a specimen of the Mountain Zebra (Equus zebra) and bore tbe following inscription :- " The Sebra, or Wild Ass." "Presented to Her Majesty in the Year 1762, by Sir Thos Adams, Cap* of the Terpsicore M a n of War, who brougl.it it from the Cape of Good Hope."' " Printed for Carington Bowles, M a p and Printseller, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London, Published 3 Aug. 1771." Mr. Sclater stated that he was informed by Mr. Tegetmeier that the original picture from which this engraving had been taken was now in the possession of Sir Walter B. Gilbey, Bart., F.Z.S., and bore the following inscription :- " A Zebra, the first seen in England, and presented to the Princess Charlotte of Wales ; painted from life, and exhibited at the Society of Artists, Spring Gardens, 1763. George Stubbs R.A." A letter was read from Mr. L. A. Borradaile, F.Z.S., stating that the Crustacean described by him at the Meeting on November 20th, 1900 l, as Armadillidium pacificum belonged to the genus Cubaris, and not to Armadillidium. In describing it the author had overlooked the presence of the minute exopodite of the uropod and had consequently regarded a linear inequality on the under surface of the outer flange of this limb as a joint. Had this been correct, the species would have been an interesting exception to the ordinary distribution of the genus Armadillidium, and in pointing out this supposed peculiarity the name pacificum. now inappropriate, had been given to it. The following papers were read:- 1. Revision of the Rhynchota belonging to the Family Coreidce in the Hope Collection at Oxford. By W. L. DISTANT. [Eeceived March 23, 1901.] (Plates XXIX. & XXX.2) This communication concludes the revision of the Rhynchota briefly described by the late Prof. Westwood in the only two parts' published of " A Catalogue of Hemiptera in the Collection of the Rev. F. W . Hope," which forms an integral portion of the well-known " Hope Collection " at Oxford. I have now, by the kind permission of Prof. Poulton, examined the Coreidce which » See P. Z. S. 1900, p. 796. 2 For explanation of the Plates, see p. 335. PROC. ZOOL, Soc-1901, VOL. I. No. XXII. 22 |