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Venables, of Bonchurch, this butterfly is one of five which had not, up to the date of 

 publication, been fuund here, the other four being Pieris Daplidice, Melitaea Athalia, 

 Hesperia Comma and H. Pauiscus. — W. M. Frost; Belle Vue, Sundown, Isle of 

 Wight, November 25, 1865. 



Description of the Larva of Caradrina hlanda. — Feeds on Plantago major, and is 

 full fed by the 26ih of May : it does not roll in a ring when disturbed : head porrected, 

 narrower than the 2nd segment; body attenuated anteriorly, and this part frequently 

 stretched out and moved after the manner of a leech: each segment has a transverse 

 but irregular series of warts, and each wart emits a conspicuous hair, the dorsal hairs 

 being directed backwards, the lateral hairs forwards. Colour of the head pale browu, 

 wilh daiker reticulations, slightly shining ; of the body dingy brown, without gloss, the 

 dorsal area paler and slightly reticulated: it is bordered on each side by a narrow and 

 indistinct paler stripe : on each side below the spiracles, which are black, is an obscurely 

 indicated broader pale stripe: ventral surface, legs and claspers dingy semitransparent 

 brown. I am indebted to Mr. Doubleday for a supply of this larva. — Edward 

 Newman, 



How long will Carcinas mmnas remain alive without Immersion? — I tried some 

 time ago an experiment with some specimens of Carcinas maenas, as to how long they 

 •ould remain alive without immersion. I had half-a- dozen put into a basket and 

 kept out of doors; they were consequently exposed to several showers of rain, which 

 might probably have prolonged their lives by keeping up a certain degree of humidity 

 in their branchia; but whether it did so or not, three of them died on the third day, 

 two gave up on the fifth day, and the last at the end of the seventh day. They were 

 in consequence kept without food, and so may not have entirely died from non- 

 immersion, but by actual starvation : could I have fed them in any way I think it 

 most likely they might have been still alive, and so approach the land-crabs of the 

 West Indies, the Cape of Good Hope, &c., in their hahxis.— Edward Parfitt ; Devon 

 and Exeter Institute, Exeter, October 27, 1865. 



Rediscovery of Geophilus maritimus of Leach — I have much pleasure in making 

 known the rediscovery of this long-lost species. Dr. Leach discovered it some 

 fifty years ago, and from that time to this I am not aware of its having again 

 been seen by any observer: there is no specimen or specimens in the British Museum 

 collections, fori examined them with my friend Mr. Smith when in Loudon in May 

 last. When my friend Mr. Reading called on me since, I was working up the Devon, 

 shire species of this family, and I mentioned it to him; he said he had seen one under 

 stones on a particular part of the shore at Plymouth, and when he went down there he 

 went to the place again, and found four specimens, of which he gave me one, and it 

 proved to be the identical lost species of Dr. Leach. Mr. Newport, when he published 

 his Monograph of the Order, had never seen Leach's species, and consequently only 

 published the doctor's description without any comments: it gives me then much 

 pleasure to confirm that accurate observer Dr. Leach. — Id. 



Description of Arihrqnomalus crassicornis, Parfitt. — Head elongate-ovate, smooth 

 and shining to the naked eye, but, under an inch objective, finely, delicately and 

 thickly punctate, with several irregular impressions ; the Laaikr segment a little nar- 

 rower than the subbasilar, having a deeply impressed quadrate space in each, the 



