Miscelluneous. 483 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Note on the Dates of * The Zoology of the * Beagle.’ ” 
GrenTLEMEN,—By the courtesy of Messrs. Smith, Elder, and Co., I 
was enabled, in August 1895, to ascertain the contents and dates 
of the separate parts of ‘‘ The Zoology of the ‘ Beagle.” I append 
the data for the convenience of other workers; and as the items in 
column 4 of Messrs. Smith, Elder, & Co.’s report include titlepages, 
fly-sheets, &c., I have added in square brackets the actual text 
pagination for greater clearness. 
Parts. Contents. Plates. Pages. Date. 
1 Foss. Mamm. 7 46 [ 1-40] Feb. 1838, 
2 Mamm. 10 16{ 1-16] Miaiy sas. 
3 Aves. 10 16[ 1-16] July -,; 
4 Mamm. 8 24 [17-32] Sept. ,, 
5 Mamm. 8 16 [33-48 | Now: e.5 
6 Aves. 10 16 [17-32] Jan. 1839, 
7 Foss. Mamm. 10 32 [41-68 | Manse. 
8 Foss. Mamm. LO 16 [69-80] May: 3s 
ey) Aves. 10 24 [33-56 | Jnl ie 
10 Mamm. 9 60 [49-100] Sept. ,, 
11 “Aves. 10 40 [57-96] iN crys 
12 Pisces. 8 32[ 1-82] Jan. 1840, 
13 Foss. Mamm. 5 30) Ol=L12 i), Apr. sa 
14 Pisces. fi 32 [33-64] June ,, 
15 Aves. 10 76 [97-164] Mar. 1841. 
16 Pisces, 5 32 | 65-96 | PACD © 55 
Af: Pisces. 9 92 [97-172] Apr. 1842, 
18 Rept. 10 16 [ 1-16] ANE, ~ 5 
19 Rept. 10 44[17-52]" = Oct. 1843. 
C. Davies SHERBORN 
(‘ Index animalium ’). 
White Ants ; with some Account of their Habits and Depredations. 
By Watrer W. Froeearr, New South Wales Government Ento- 
mologist. 
Specimens of potatoes were received from Mr. Broughton Corrie, 
Colo Vale, about the middle of February, with the information that 
when harvesting his crop he had found those in one corner of the 
field covered with white ants, which were burrowing into and 
gnawing the centres out of otherwise perfectly sound tubers; but 
as none of the insects were sent with this consignment, further 
information was asked for. 
In response to my request, further samples of potatoes were sent 
down swarming with live soldiers and workers of these destructive 
little creatures, and so honeycombed with their attacks that only 
