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village, whose relations made a vow to revenge themselves, and after long watching 

 succeeded in destroying it: part of the clothing and ornaments of the chief were 

 found in the stomach. This account was given by the Dutch Resident De Groot to 

 Captain Henderson, who presented the head to Captain Richard Glasspoole." This 

 skull has lately been examined by Dr. J. E. Gray, who informs me that it belongs to 

 the species above referred to, which occurs not only in Borneo, but also in some of the 

 estuaries of India, as well as in those of Northern Australia. In confirmation of the 

 great size to which this reptile attains, I may, in conclusion, quote the following 

 remark from Mr. Adams's 'Notes on the Natural History of the Countries visited by 

 H.M.S. Samarang ' (p. 365) : — The crocodile [Crocodilus biporcalus) must occasionally 

 attain to a very large size in Borneo; judging from au enormous skull found whitening 

 on the beach, the owner must have been at least twenty-eight feet long." — J. H. 

 Gurnet/ ; June, 1867. 



PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society. 

 July 1, 1867. — Sir John Lubbock, Bart., President, in the chair. 



Donations to the Library. 

 The following donations were announced, and thanks voted to the donors : — 

 ' Exotic Butterflies,' Part 63, by W. C. Hewitson; presented by the Author. 'The 

 Eutomologist's Monthly Magazine' for July; by the Editors. 



Election of Member. 

 Dr. George William DavidsoD, of 13, Union Place, Edinburgh, was ballolted for, 



and elected a Member. 



Exhibitions, Sf-c. 



Mr. Busk (who was present as a visitor) mentioned, on the authority of Dr. Cob- 

 bold, that the small worm exhibited at the previous Meeting was not Gordius 

 aquaticus, but Mermis nigrescens. 



Mr. M'Lachlan exhibited Ciniflo ferox from Folkestone, where that spider had 

 been captured by Dr. Knaggs; and living specimens of a spider and a large centipede, 

 which were found in the hold of a ship recently arrived from Manilla with a mixed 

 cargo, principally consisting of sugar and hemp. 



The Secretary exhibited branches and the fruit of an orauge-tree infested with 

 some insect, with regard to which information was requested by Mr. Charles Moore, 

 Curator of the Botanic Garden, Sydney, New South Wales. Prof. Westwood dis- 

 covered two species of Coccus upon the branches, but was unable to detect anything 

 but mould upon the fruit. 



Mr. Staintou exhibited a collection of Micro-Lepidoptera obtained from the larva? 

 which he had collected whilst at Cannes and Mentone in February and March : the 

 collection comprised upwards of thirty species, amongst which may be specially 

 mentioned a fine series of Depressaria rutana, from larva? on Ruta anguslifolia on the 

 rocks at Monaco; a specimen of Phibalocera quercana, bred from Arbutus ; two spe- 

 cies of Gelechia, bred from larva? feeding on Silene Nica?ensis, and forming sand- 

 cocoons amongst the roots of that plant (one species being probably identical with our 



