3532 The Zoologist— May, 1873. 



Lanipfish or Lumpsnckeri — The lumpfish {Cycloptems lumpus) has been 

 taken here to-daj at surface ia mackerel-nets in deep water, at least thirty- 

 fathoms. It was a male fish, in excellent condition, and full of milt, and in 

 size nearly as large as the full-sized female ; but its colour, instead of 

 inclining to red, as is said to be the case in the male of this fish, was the 

 usual dull leaden blue of the female over the back, inclining to the usual 

 dirty white on the belly. The liver was remarkable for its size. — Thomas 

 Cornish; Penzance, March 28, 1873. 



Proceedings of the Entomological Society. 



March 17, 1873.— Prof. Westwood, M.A., F.L.S., President, in the 



chair. 



Donations to the Library. 



The following donations were announced, and thanks voted to the 



donors ; — ' Proceedings of the Royal Society,' No. 142 ; presented by the 



Society. ' Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological Society 



of London for the Year 1872,' and Index 1861—70 ; by the Society. ' The 



Canadian Entomologist,' vol. v. No. 1 ; by the Editor. ' L'Abeille, 1872,' 



livr, 3 & 4; by the Editor. 'The Entomologist's Annual for 1873'; by 



H. T. Staiuton, Esq. 



Election of Member. 



M. Ernest Olivier, of Moulins (AUier), France, a grandson of the cele- 

 brated French entomologist of that name, was balloted for and elected a 

 Foreign Member. 



Exhibitions, So. 



The President exhibited a specimen of a very rare species of Paussus from 

 Abyssinia, in which the hinder part of the thorax was constricted, quite 

 unlike any of the other species. 



Mr. F. Smith exhibited a further collection of ants sent by Mr. G. A. James 

 Rothney, from Calcutta. Th^ were collected by him in a very restricted 

 area, principally in the Eden Gardens, Calcutta, between the months of 

 June and October of last year. The specimens which Mr. Smith had been 

 able to determine were thirty in number, namely: — 



Formicidce (eight species). — Camponotus compressus, Fabr.; C. syl- 

 vaticus, OUv. ; C. opaciveutris, Maijr, n. sp. ; C. Bacchus, Smith ; Polyrhachis 

 spiniger, Mayr., n. sp. ; P. Shriuax, Roger; P. lajvissimus. Smith; CEco- 

 phylla smaragdina, Fabr. Ponerida (six species). — Bradyponera longitarsis, 

 Mayr., n. gen. & sp. ; Lobopelta chinensis, Mayr. ; L. mutabilis. Smith ; 

 L. punctiventris, Mayr., n. sp. ; L. diminuta. Smith ; Diacamma vagans, 

 Smith. MyrmicidcE (fifteen species). — Crematogaster Rothneji, Mayr, n. sp. ; 



