426 Miscellaneous. 



millim. 



Length of posterior tibiae 4*5 



Width of the head betweeu the outer margin of the 



canthi of the eyes 5"5 



Length of the clypeus 2-5 



„ of scutelliim 2 



Width of ditto at base 3 



Length of antennal club 2*25 



Three specimens of this fine and remarkable addition to the 

 Coleopterous famia of India were discovered by Mr. M. J. Ogle, 

 of the Topographical Survey of India, in one spot near 

 Wakidgaon, a village 30-35 miles S.E. of Sadia^ in the valley 

 of the Noa Deliing, a feeder of the Brahmaputra. They do 

 not differ from one another in the smallest particular, and, as 

 each presents the same modification of the fore tarsi as tliat by 

 which males are distinguished from females in such Rutelidee 

 as Antichira lucida^ are doubtless all males. 



A more detailed and formal description, with figures of the 

 mouth-parts, is to be published hereafter elsewhere. 



MISCELLANEOUS, 



The Nani^lius Stage of Prawns. 



Bhimenau, St. Catharina, Brazil. 

 Sept. 11, 1878. 



My dear Sir, — I duly received a few days ago, and heartily thank 

 you for, a copy of your paper " On the Nauplius Stage of Prawns." 

 As soon as I can find time to do so I shall discuss this question 

 once more, though I am unable to give new facts ; for I have been 

 living far from the sea for more than eleven years. 



I hope you received a copy of the German original, translated 

 in the ' Annals,' which I sent you some months ago. 



The main object of my writing you to-day is to beg you to com- 

 pare the translation of my paper in the ' Annals ' with the German 

 original, in order to convince yourself that I did not use the word 

 " opponents," which has been added by the translator. Indeed, "let 

 my opponents tell me," is not a very exact translation of the words 

 I used — " so sage man mir "*. I, as well as you, have always thought 



* [The word " opponents " does not occur in the translation of Dr. 

 Fritz MUUer's paper published in this Journal for June 1878 (p. 484), 

 but in Mr. Spence Bate's quoted translation of the same passage 

 ('Annals,' July 1878, p. 80). To us the whole question of the expres- 

 sion used seems to be of little consequence : the people -whom Dr. 

 MiiUer asks to tell him something are those who hold an opinion opposed 

 to his own ; and if these are not " opponents," " so sage man uns " what 

 they are. — Eds.] 



