Oil Wyvillethoinsonia and S<|iiamuliiia. 337 



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

 minus cinereo indutis. 

 Long. Corp. lin. 5-6. 



Calamlra striata, Petit, in litt. 



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



Sphenophorus striatus, Fahraeus, in Schonh. Cure. viii. 251 (184o). 



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

 ponia et Tasmania ; truncos Muscb destruens. 



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

 fusiform in outline, without legs, and of a dirty white, thouo-h 

 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. 



XhlY— Remarks on Prof. E. HaeckeVs Observations on 

 Wyvillethomsonia Wallichii and Squamulina scopula Bv 

 H. J. Carter, F.R,S. &c, ^ ^ 



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

 Perceval Wright's Wi/viUethomsorna Wallichn (Quart. Journ. 

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

 tified his Gastrophysema scojmla (p. 24) with my Squamulina 

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



^ Now, as I^ had already identified Wyvillethomsonia Wal~ 

 UcJm=Dorvillia agariciformis^ Kent, = Tisij)konia agarici- 

 Jormis, Sir Wyville Thomson, with one of the sponges 

 dredged up on board H.M.8. ' 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 le said, almost, of Tisi^thonia agar ici/br mis),'' 

 — I must protest against this ignorance ! 



Further, as regards Squamidina scopula, I have found the 

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

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



