On Wyvillethoinsonia and SquarauUna. 337 



funde punctato), femoribus versus apicem, tibiis, tarsisque plus 

 minus cinereo indutis. 

 Long. Corp. lin. 5-6. 



Calandra striata, Petit, in litt. 



, in Dej. Cat. (edit. 3) 329 (1837). 



Sphenophorus striattts, Fahrseus, in Schonli. Cure. viii. 251 (1845). 



JIab. in Brasilia, Madera, India orientali, et (nisi fallor) Ja- 

 ponia et Tasmania ; truncos Mwscb destruens. 



The larva of this weevil is a thick fleshy grub, ovate or 

 fusiform in outline, without legs, and of a dirty white, though 

 with an obscure darker line (obsolete in parts) down the dorsal 

 region. Its head is shining, of a pale reddish brown, and 

 studded with a few erect hairs ; and there are also a few erect 

 hairs towards the anal extremity, 



Teigumouth, Sept. 17, 1877. 



XLIV. — Remarks on Prof. E. HaeckeVs Observations on 

 Wy villethomsonia Wallichii and Squamulina scopula. By 

 H. J. Carter, RR.S. &c, r j 



I HAVE just received the first number of the ' Jenaische Zeit- 

 schrift fiir Naturwissenschaft,' published on the 20th March 

 last ; and in this I find that Prof. E. Haeckel has identified 

 his Haliphysema echinoides (p. 16, Taf. ii. f. 127) with Dr. 

 Perceval Wright's Wyvillethomsonia Wallichn (Quart. Journ. 

 Micr. Sci. 1870, vol, x. p. 7, pi. ii.) ; also that he has iden- 

 tified his Gastroplysema scopula (p. 24) with my Squamulina 

 scopula ('Annals,' 1870, vol, v. p. 309, pi. iv. figs. 1-3). 



Now, as I had already identified Wyvillethomsonia Wal- 

 lichii=Bormllia agariciformis^ Kent, = Tisipkom'a agarici- 

 formis, Sir Wyville Thomson, with one of the sponges 

 dredged up on board H.M.S. ' Porcupine ' in the Atlantic 

 Ocean (' Annals,' 1876, vol. xviii. p. 471), unmistakably, 

 and have stated with respect to its plentifulness (p. 405) that 

 ^' there is hardly a specimen [of Tethya cranium] among the 

 sponges dredged up by the ' Porcupine ' which has not one or 

 more in various degrees of development adhering to it ^the 

 same might I e said, almost, of Tisiphonia agariciformis) '^ 

 — I must protest against this ignorance ! 



Further, as regards Squamulina scopula, I have found the 

 original specimen, called by the late Dr. Bowerbank " Haly- 

 physema Tumanowiczii^'' and given to him by Mr. Tuma- 



