THE ZooLoGist—FEBRuUARY, 1872. 2949 
drawing of it for the ‘ Illustrated London News.’ Its total length from tip. 
of nose to end of tail was three feet nine inches; the head ten inches long; 
the tail five and a half inches. The skin is very much corrugated, and 
seems covered with a glass-like varnish. It is very pink about the mouth 
and lower jaws. The hoofs are dark chocolate; the legs and lower portion 
of the body the colour of the section of a piece of India rubber. Mr. Bartlett, 
with his usual energy and perseverance, managed to get the young one away 
from its mother, and it sucked down a pint and a half of goat’s milk before 
it died. They managed to drive the mother into her tank of water by 
squirting water into her face with a powerful garden-engine. The moment 
she entered the bath they slammed the gate, and then stole the young one. 
I understand that this rare specimen of a sucking Behemoth is to be sent 
to Oxford for dissection —F'rank Buckland, in ‘ Land and Water,’ Jan. 18. 
Proceedings of the Entomological Society. 
December 4, 1871.—A. R. Wattace, Esq., F.Z.S., President, in the 
chair. 
Additions to the Library. 
The following donations were announced, and thanks voted to the 
donors :—‘ Annales de la Société Entomologique de France,’ 4e Série, 
tome x. and Supplement; preseuted by the Society. ‘ Bullettino della 
Societa) Entomologica Italiana,’ anno iii., trim. 1 & 2; by the Society. 
‘ Mittheilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft,’ vol. iii. 
No. 8; by the Society. ‘L’Abeille,’ tome vii., livr. 4, 5,6 & 7; tome viii., 
livr. 8, 9; by the Editor. ‘The Canadian Entomologist,’ vol. iii., Nos, 
7&8; by the Editor. ‘Additamenta et Emendationes ad Catalogum 
methodicum et synonymicum Hemipterorum Italiae indigenarum,’ auctore 
Antonio Garbiglietti, M.D.; by the Author. ‘ Description de deux Dorcadion 
nouveaux et observations sur quelques autres espéces du méme genre,’ 
par M. A. Chevrolat; by the Author. ‘ Beitrage zur Parthenogenesis der 
Arthropoden,’ von C. T. E. v. Siebold; by the Author. ‘The Zoologist’ 
for December; by the Editor. ‘The Hntomologist’s Monthly Magazine’ for 
December ; by the Editors. 
By purchase :—‘ A History of the Spiders of Great Britain and Ireland,’ 
by John Blackwall, F.L.S. Parts I. and I. 
Evhibitions, dc. 
Mr. 8. Stevens exhibited, on behalf of Mr. Shearwood, an extraordinarily 
dark variety of Argynnis Aglaia, captured near Teignmouth. 
Mr. Bond exhibited, on behalf of Mr. Doubleday, varieties or malforma- 
tions of British Lepidoptera, as follows:—(1) Meliteea Artemis, with the 
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