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of burden, being little larger than Newfoundland Dogs. He also impressed upon 

 naturalists and travellers the use of the camera lucida, for obtaining more correct 

 configurations of animals than could be got by the unaided vision. 



Mr. Gould exhibited a collection of the Raptorial birds of Australia, consisting 

 of twenty-six species, amongst which were two white Hawks, which he consi- 

 dered were sufficiently characterised to be placed in a distinct species. Dr. Vigors 

 remarked on the total absence of the Vulturiclce and the typical Raptorial birds 

 as a distinguishing feature in Australian Ornithology, and also on an equal 

 deficiency of ruminants amongst mammalia, as well as several insects and plants. 

 He also congratulated the meeting on the presence of Prince Lucien Bonaparte, 

 after an absence of ten years from this country, devoted to an inquiry into the 

 Ornithology of the New World. — Mr. Gould described three new species of birds 

 from New Zealand. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Oct. 2. — Mr. J. F. Stephens, Pres., in the chair. — Papers bearing the follow- 

 ing titles were read: — 1. A series of diurnal observations upon the larva of 

 Athalia centifolia, or black caterpillar of the Turnip, with suggestions as to the 

 best modes for its destruction, communicated by Mr. Sells ; 2. observations on 

 the Hemipterous family, Phymatites of Laporte, with a monograph on the genus 

 Macrocephalus, by Mr. Westwood ; 3. observations on the economy of several 

 species of CEstrideous insects which attack the Horse, by Mr. Sells. In this 

 communication the author entered fully into several points of the Natural His- 

 tory of the different species of Horsebots, arriving at conclusions opposed to those 

 of Mr. Bracy Clark. — Mr. Saunders exhibited a small but interesting collec- 

 tion of insects from the interior of India, and Mr. Westwood specimens of the 

 grub which, at the present time, is committing serious injury to the Turnips 

 in the midland counties. He also presented specimens of two small Beetles, 

 Apion radiolus and Haltica fuscipes, generally found upon the Marsh Mallow, 

 but which he observed to be very injurious to the Hollyhock. The same gentle- 

 man likewise presented highly magnified drawings of the appearance of the se- 

 cretion emitted by the Domestic Fly, produced by a disease which causes its 

 death, and which had been considered by Mr. Macleay, at the Liverpool meet- 

 ing, as a species of parasitic Fungus (see p. 440). — Numerous donations of books 

 were announced, and other routine business was transacted. — Mr. Francis 

 Walker, F.L.S., was elected a member, and certificates were read in favour of 

 other candidates. 



