270 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
A communication was read from Mr. F. Moore, containing the de- 
scriptions of new genera and species of Asiatic Lepidoptera Heterocera. 
Eleven new genera were characterized and ninety new species described. 
Mr. G. French Angas read the descriptions of ten new species of shells 
of the genera Axinea and Pectunculus. 
A communication was read from Mr. W. A. Forbes, on the anatomy of 
the African Elephant, based on facts observed during a dissection of a 
young female of that species during the last winter. The structures of the 
thoracic, alimentary and urino-genital viscera of this species were described, 
and compared with the previously published accounts of those of both the 
Indian and African species of Elephant. The most important differences 
observed were those displayed in the liver and female organs; but on the 
whole were not of such a nature as to make it advisable, in the author’s 
opinion, to separate Lowodon as a genus from Klephas proper. 
A paper was read by Mr. F’. Jeffrey Bell, on the question of the number 
of anal plates in the Echinoderms of the genus Echinocidaris—P. L. 
Sciaver, Secretary. 
EnromotoaicaL Society oF London. 
April 2, 1879.—J. W. Dunnine, Esq., M.A., F.L.S., Vice-President, 
in the chair. 
Mr. M‘Lachlan exhibited the cases and sixteen species of Brazilian 
caddis-flies, with the insects bred from the larve that manufactured some 
of them, sent to him by Dr. Fritz Miiller, from Santa Catharina. Included 
were the cases exhibited at the meeting of the 4th December last. 
In connection with the habits of the Mantide—a subject which had 
been recently brought under the notice of the Society by Mr. Wood-Mason 
and others—Mr. Stainton remarked that on March 20th, 1866, he received 
a letter from Mr. Moggridge, jun., stating that he had forwarded a cater- 
pillar ‘and also a curious grasshopper (?).” The latter was enclosed in a 
box, from which, on being opened, there jumped out a little creature which 
he had no difficulty in recognising as a young Mantis. It was of a whitish 
green colour, and may possibly have been the young larval form of Mantis 
religiosa. It was placed back in the box, and the next morning again 
examined, the long anterior segment of the thorax and the peculiar anterior 
legs leaving no room for doubt that the specimen, in spite of its hopping 
movements, was a young Mantis. It was again turned out of the box, and 
again made little jumps, not such springs as would be taken by a grass- 
hopper, but still there was that in its movements which quite justified 
Mr. Moggridge, who, although a first-rate botanist, has not yet turned his 
attention to Entomology, in styling it “a curious grasshopper (?).” De Geer 
observes (vol. iii., p. 401) that “les Mantes approchent beaucoup des Sau- 
terelles, quoiqu’elles ne puissent pas sauter.” Mr. Stainton was of opinion 
