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sown with tvMte stone turnips, the fly will attack the latter and 

 leave the former; thus the Swedes will be preserved. In 

 addition to the Alticcv, wire-worms, by eating the roots, and 

 ants, by carrying away the seed, are very injurious to the 

 turnip crop. 



6. Description of a new Crustaceous Animal. By Robert 

 Templeton, Esq. R. A. 



This animal, the Cyclops Anomalocera Patersonii of Temple- 

 ton, has these distinguishing characters : — Antennae 4, the 

 superior about | the length of the body, and dissimilar in 

 the male, that on the left being tapering, spiny, and many- 

 jointed; that on the right is inflated about the middle: the 

 superior antennas of the female are ahke, and resemble the left 

 superior antennae of the male : the inferior antennae are short, 

 palpiform, remote at their base, and three-jointed, the first joint 

 sending inwards and upwards a minute, elongate, club-shaped 

 appendage: the eye of the female is sessile, of the male stalked: 

 the swimming feet are four pairs. The animal was taken in 

 crossing the ferry at the mouth of Larne Lough, county 

 Antrim, in May ; in fifteen minutes, above three hundred were 

 captured; though kept in salt water, all died during the night: 

 they swim with a lively and constant motion, and jirk them- 

 selves out of the way when pursued. 



7. Notes respecting the Variety of the Silk- Worm which spin 

 White Silk. By w! Sells, Esq. M. E. S. 



June 7th the eggs began to hatch, August 4th the worms 

 began to spin, 27th the moths appeared, and between Sep- 

 tember 14th and 29th they died; the silk is perfectly white ; 

 the cocoons larger than those of the common kind, more 

 variable in figure, and wound with greater difficulty. 



8. On the Golofa Beetle of Venezuela, and its allied species. By 

 the Rev. F. W. Hope, M.A. F.R.S. &c. 



Characters of the genus Golofa of Hope. Labrum distinct, 

 notched, ciliated : mandibles strong, falcate, beneath keeled, 

 internally pilose at the base : maxillae elongate, the apical lobe 

 attenuated, internally toothed and ciliated : maxillary feelers 



