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PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 



1853. The weed was covered with campanula?, which were still alive ; thus forming 

 a miniature vivarium. 



Some conversation then ensued relative to the so-called Aztec children. 



Professor Forbes stated, that Mr. Connolly of London said he could find instances 

 perfectly similar to them in this country, allowing for difference of race, &c. 



Dr. Carte said, that they were by no means so old as was imagined ; he had 

 had an opportunity of examining the teeth of one of them, who could not have been 

 more than eight years old. 



Dr. Ball exhibited skulls of various races, to illustrate the flattened character 

 which some of them possessed in a great degree. 



Mr. E. P. Wright read a letter from R. Davis, Esq., Clonmel, relative to the 

 appearance of the Dotterel and other birds. 



NOVEMBER 19, 1853. 

 Dr. Ball, President, in the chair. 



Mr. Hogan read the following note on the larva? of Diglossa mersa, by J. 0. 

 Westwood, Esq. : — 



" I have carefully examined and dissected the little larvae you gave me as those of 

 Diglossa mersa ; I find them very interesting animals, and differing very much from 

 the ordinary type of Staphylinideous larvae. The articulated caudal appendages, 

 which are so much developed in the larvae of Staphylinus and all the other larvae 

 of the family which I had previously examined, are in these larvae reduced to a very 

 minute but still articulated pair of lateral setae, much shorter than the joint to which 

 they are attached. The mandibles will do well for a Staphyline's larvae ; but the 

 maxillae are quite unlike those of any other larvae I know, being long and like the 

 blade of a sword, with a short palpus on the dilated handle or base. As Diglossa 

 itself is such an aberrant form, I suppose, under all the above circumstances, that 

 the larvae may belong to it rather than to any other Necrophagous group." 



The Rev. J. Greene exhibited a box of rare Lepidoptera, among which were 

 specimens of Acronycta euphorbiae. 



Mr. Hogan then read the first part of a 



CATALOGUE OF COLEOPTERA FOUND IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF DUBLIN. 



Imperfect though a list such as the following must necessarily be, I trust that it 

 will be of use in assisting to determine the limits of distribution which exist among 

 our native beetles. 



Much of the information contained in this catalogue has been communicated to 

 me by A. H. Haliday, Esq., and Alfred Furlong, Esq., for whose kind assistance I 

 have great pleasure in returning my best thanks. The names of the genera are 

 those adopted by the late Mr. Stephens in his " Manual of British Coleoptera." 



Cicindela campestris, L. Killiney beach. 

 Demetrias atricapillus, L. Killiney and 



Portmarnock. 

 Dromius quadrimaculatus, L. Under 

 the bark of trees, common. 



„ linearis, Ol. Portmarnock, &c. 



„ fasciatus, F. Killiney and 

 Portmarnock. 



„ foveolus, Gyl. Portmarnock. 



„ truncatellus, L. Ditto. 



„ meridionalis, Ste. Cherry- 

 wood, Loughlinstown. 



„ melanocephalus, Dj. Port- 

 marnock, &c. 



„ agilis, F. Not uncommon. 



Clivina fossor, L. Abundant. 

 Dyschirius thoracicus, Gyl. Portmar- 

 nock and Portrane. 

 ,, salinus, Schaum. Portrane. 

 „ globosus, Hbst. Common. 

 Carabus granulatus, L. Very abundant. 

 „ auratus, L. This insect was 

 taken some years since at 

 Lough Bray, by the Rev. E. 

 Tardy and the late T. Coul- 

 ter, Esq. ; but I have not 

 heard of any recent instance 

 of its capture. 

 „ glabratus, Pk. Lough Bray. 

 „ nemoralis, Mir. Common. 



