3114 THE ZooLocist—JuNE, 1872. 
aversion to the touch of a reptile, I should have tried to capture it alive: as 
it was, a slight blow of my stick, more by good luck than good aim, caught 
it in some very vulnerable part, for it never moved, more than the tail, 
afterwards, while not the slightest trace of the blow remained visible in any 
part.—O. P.-Cambridge ; April 29, 1872. 
Sturgeon in the Torridge.—One of these fish, six feet six inches in length 
and weighing one hundred and sixty pounds, was caught in the Bridge 
Pool, Bideford, in a salmon-net yesterday. It was cut up and sold about 
the town at sixpence per pound. Sturgeons have been caught in this pool 
before.—Gervase I". Mathew ; Admiralty House, Devonport, May 18, 1872. 
Proceedings of the Entomological Society, 
April 1, 1872.—Prof. J. O. Westwoop, M.A., F.L.S., President, in the 
chair. Dr. A. S. Packard, jun., of Salem, U.S. A., was present as a 
Visitor. 
Donations to the Library. 
The following donations were announced, and thanks voted to the 
donors :—‘ Proceedings of the Royal Society,’ No. 132; presented by the 
Society. ‘The Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine,’ for April; by the 
Editors. ‘Lepidoptera Exotica,’ part 12; by KX. W. Janson. ‘The 
Journal of the Quekett Microscopical Club,’ No. 18; by the Club. 
Exhibitions, é&c. 
Prof. Westwood exhibited a large woody gall found at the foot of a young 
oak tree, from which the gall-flies were then escaping (Mr. Albert Miiller 
considered it to be the work of Cynips Q-radicis). He also exhibited 
drawings made under the microscope, from microscopic slides prepared by 
Mr. Whitmarsh, of Wilton, near Salisbury, of various species of Cynipide 
mounted in Canada balsam. Among these were both sexes of the species 
forming the artichoke-gall of the oak; the males with fifteen, and the 
females with fourteen, joints to the antenne. The female of the hard 
globular gall at the tips of oak-shoots had thirteen joints to the antenne ; 
the hind wing, close to the pterostigmatical region, was furnished with four 
long slender hooks, bent at right angles in the middle, connecting the wings 
during flight ; the ovipositor and its two spicula were long, curved, and 
very slender; the terminal ventral segment of the abdomen in this, and in 
other species of the family, is produced into two compressed lobes at its 
apex, between which the tips of the ovipositor and its sheaths are placed. 
