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in an liour and a Iialf. The limpid character of the \vater encoura- 

 ging tlie belicf tliat it was įVee from any pernicious qualities, M. 

 Goudot tasted it, and found no unpieasant flavour: he also gavę it 

 to some fovvls, ivithout producing any inconvenience. \Vhen cx- 

 posed to the air, hovvever, it speedily loses its transparency, and 

 assumes a lemon-coloured tinge. 



Tlie insect by whose lurva the fluid fs secreted, is described at 

 length by M. Goudot as a species of the genus Cercopis of Latreille, 

 and nearly related to the Cercopis spumaria ( Cicada, Linn.) of Eu- 

 rope; vvhich latter recalls in miniature what takes placein the large 

 Madagascar larva. secreting, likę it, large quantities of vvhitefroth, 

 and suspending itself, ^vith its foamy mantle, from the blades of grass 

 on which it feeds. It appears to be entirely new, and as M. Goudot 

 had neglected to name it, Mr. Bennett statcd that he embraced vvith 

 pleasure the opportunity of dedicating it to its discoverer, under the 

 name of Aphrophora Goudoii, the former name having been generi- 

 cally applied by M. Germar to that subdivision of Latreiile's genus 

 Cercopis, to which the insect in questionbelongs. He characterized 

 it as tollovvs : 



Aphropiiora Goudoti. Aph. nigra; ihoracejlavescenti, punctis 

 4' nigris anlicis transversim positis, duobus intermediis impressis ; 

 capite scutelloįuejliįvis, hoc punclis ^ [2 — 2). 

 Long. corp. 1 unc. 1 lin. 

 The size above given is that of the spccimens conimunicated to 

 the Society by Mr. Telfair ; but M. Goudot statės that the insect 

 attains a length of 36 millinietres, vvhich is little short of an inch and 

 a half. lie adds, that even after having attained its perfect statė it 

 remains upon the tree, fixed to the small branches, but in a statė of 

 isolation : and that, having observed several individuals in this con- 

 dition, he perceived that they continued to emif, from time to time, 

 minute drops of clear and limpid vvater. He describes the/arvaas 

 bcing about yo millimetres in length at its fuli period of grovvth, its 

 colours consisting of an irregular mixture of dull grey, yellovvish 

 and black. The legs are entirely black, and the clavvs vvhich termi- 

 nale the tarsi very strong. It emits a disagrecable scent. 



Mr. Bennett called the attention of the Society to a stufFed spe- 

 cimen of an Anlelope, from the southern part of" the peninsula of 

 India, vvhich had been presenled to the Society several months 

 since by Charles Telfair, Esq., Corr. Memb. Z. S. He remarked, 

 that notvvithstanding some discrepancies betvveen the specimen ex. 

 hibited and the description published by Palias, he vvas disposed to 

 regard it as the young of the Indiaji Anteiope, Antilope Cervicapra, 

 Pall. Its general colour is pale favvn, and it has a palcr streak on 

 each side, passing from the shoulders to the haunches ; characters 

 by vvhich, as well as by the form of its horns, the pale circle sur- 

 rounding the eyes, and the whitepatch under the tail, itagrces »ith 

 the young of the Indian Anteiope: but it difFers by the favvn colour 

 extunding down the sides to the under parts of the body, vvhich are 



