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the anterior end the white is much broader and more conspicuous. 

 Just at the edge of the dark part are placed the six black spots on 

 each side, apparently eyes ; five of these are contiguous and equi- 

 distant, the two anterior are more remote. It is capable of considerable 

 change of form, both laterally and longitudinally ; the posterior is 

 rather smaller than the anterior, but not pointed. Length from two to 

 three inches, and about a line broad. Var. ? — With the eyes more 

 confluent, except the hindmost pair, which are distant, and with a 

 faint pale dorsal line. Devon coast; rare. 



O. spiralis, Mont. MSS. p. 274 (Lineus spiralis). Filiform, with a 

 red spiral intestine; the outer integument having the appearance of 

 minute annulations, probably transverse striae. Body occasionally de- 

 pressed, the posterior end often knotted or formed into knobs. Length 

 two or three inches, not thicker than a horse-hair. Devon coast; 

 rare. 



Edward Parfitt. 



Devon and Exeter Institution, Exeter, 

 May 4, 1865. 



(To be continued.) 



Poisonous Effect of a Cephalopod. — John H met with a sad accident yester- 

 day: he was bathing early in the morning, when a Portuguese man-of-war wound its 

 long thongs completely round his body, which instantly benumbed bin), and he would 

 have been drowned had not a companion who was with him pulled him out ; but it 

 was not until past noon that they had hope of his recovery: his flesh was then 

 twitching frightfully, and his body was covered with weals the size of one's finger, as 

 if he had been beaten by thick covds. — From a private letter, dated " St. Vincent, 

 Christmas Eve." [Communicated by Professor Bell, of Selborne.] 



Life- Histories of Saw/lies. Translated from the Dutch of M. Snellen 

 van Vollenhoven, by J. W. May, Esq. 



(Continued from page 9553). 



LoPHYRUS RUFUS, Klug. 



Hartig, Blatt-und Holzivespen, p. 164, No. 11. De Geer, Memoires 

 pour servir a VHist. des Ins. Vol. ii. Div. 2, p. 254 (Goeze's 

 translation), pi. 35, fig. 24 — 26. Ratzeburg, Forslinsecten, Vol. iii. 

 p. 109, pi. II. fig. 7. Le Peletier de St. Fargeau, Monogr. 

 Tenthred. p. 56, No. 160 (Lophyrus Picese). 



