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noticed a larva of the moth devouring one of the cocoons on the back of its neighbour, 

 evidently mistaking it for a seed of the plant, which it exactly resembles in form. 



Dr. Knaggs also exhibited the living larvoe of Clostera anachoreta, reared from 

 the eggs deposited by a female bred during the present summer. 



Mr. Waring exhibited some beautiful specimens of Noctua sobrina, N. neglecta 

 and Ypsolophus juuiperellus, taken in Scotland by Mr. Bouchard, during the past 

 summer. 



Mr. Waterhouse stated that he was anxious to correct three errors in his Catalogue 

 of British Coleoptera, which had lately come to his knowledge ; they consist of three 

 species introduced into the list upon the authority of other entomologists, viz. : — 

 Homalota subterranea, Mulsant ; Haploglossa rufipennis, Kraatz, introduced on the 

 authority of Mr. Janson; and Ceuthorhynchus uliginosus, Walton, taken from 

 Mr. Walton's list of British Curculionidae. 



The Homalota subterranea of Mr. Janson I find, from the inspection of a specimen 

 received from Mr. Janson by the British Museum, is the same as Homalota scapularis 

 of my Catalogue. 



The Haploglossa rufipennis of Mr. Janson is = Haploglossa pulla of my Cata- 

 logue, and is clearly not identical with H. rufipennis of Kraatz, of which there are 

 specimens received from Dr. Kraatz in the Museum collection. The insect sometimes 

 has the elytra pitchy black and sometimes rufescenl, and has been recently taken in 

 considerable numbers by Mr. Brewer, Mr. Rye and Mr. Lewis, always in the vicinity 

 of the nests of the sand martin. 



Ceuthorhynchus uliginosus of Walton is represented by a specimen presented by 

 Mr. Walton to the British Museum, which I have carefully examined, and which 

 proves to be Caeliodes didymus. It has a distinct rostral groove continued to the 

 middle coxse. A second specimen, named by Mr. Walton, is in Mr. Dale's collection, 

 and has been kindly forwarded to me by its owner for examination ; this is clearly a 

 rubbed specimen of Ceuthorhynchus litura, as Mr, F. Smith had determined before 

 I saw it. 



Mr. Stainton read " A few Words on the Synonymy of Laverna Langiella." 

 Professor Westwood read descriptions of some new exotic Lucanidae. — E. S. 



Something like an Aquarium. — I have received a copy of the ' National Intelli- 

 gencer,' Washington, September 26, in which is an account of the Boston Zoological 

 Gardens. It appears from the following that our American brother naturalists have a 

 tame whale and a pet dolphin, for we read : — " In the same tank with the white whale 

 are two sturgeons, seven feet in length, likewise a fine specimen of a shark. There are 

 also fifty other tanks, filled with fresh and salt water fish of the choicest specimens. 

 Six hundred gallons of pure sea-water passes through the entire building per minute: 

 the pipes for conveying the water are laid down through the streets of the city the 

 same as ordinary water-pipes : eight hundred and sixty-four thousand gallons of this 

 water passes through the central tank (which has a circumference of seventy-nine feet) 

 per day." — F. T. Buckland, in the ' Field.' 



[This is what I have always desired to see in this country, and at the period of the 

 establishment of the Crystal Palace Company there was a strong feeling in AtvOur of 

 ray project : it was, however, pronounced impracticable. — Edward Nctvman.'] 



