5088 THE ZooLocist—SEPTEMBER, 1876. 
Though these weights are not to be compared with some mentioned by 
Yarrell, still a conger of fifty-eight pounds and a half is not to be seen 
every day, and I confess that I should not care to meet with one of this 
size when bathing, and the net in which this example was caught is set in 
the middle of one of our bathing-places.—J. Douglas-Ogilby ; Portrush. 
Proceedings of Scientific Societies. 
EntTomMoLocicaL Society oF Lonpon. 
August 2,1876.—Sir Sipney Surrn SaunpeErs, C.M.G., Vice-President, 
in the chair. 
Additions to the Library. 
The following donations were announced, and thanks voted to the 
donors :—‘ Proceedings of the Royal Society,’ nos. 170 and 171; presented 
by the Society. ‘ Transactions of the Linnean Society of London,’ General 
Index, vols. xxvi.—xxx., completing the First Series; and vol. i., part 8, 
Zoology; by the Society. ‘The Zoologist’ and ‘ Newman’s Entomologist’ 
for August; by the Representatives of the late Edward Newman. ‘The 
Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine’ for August; by the Editors. ‘ Nature,’ 
nos. $49 to 852; by the Publishers. ‘The Naturalist; Journal of the West- 
Riding Consolidated Naturalists’ Society,’ no. xiii.; by the Society. ‘The 
Canadian Entomologist,’ vol. viii., no. 6; by the Editor. ‘L’Abeille’ 
(Cryptocephales, pp. 205—236); by the Editor. ‘ Bulletin of the Buffalo 
Society of Natural Sciences,’ vol. iii., no. 2; by the Society. ‘ Check-List 
of the Noctuide of America, North of Mexico,’ i., Bombycie and Noctuelite 
(Nonfasciate); by the Author, A. R. Grote. ‘ Proceedings of the Boston 
Society of Natural History,’ vol. xvii., parts 3 and 4; vol. xvili., parts 1 
and 2; by the Society. ‘Appalachia; the Proceedings of the Appalachian 
Mountain Club,’ vol. i., no. 1; by the Club. ‘ Fossil Orthoptera from the 
Rocky Mountain Tertiaries,’ by Samuel H. Scudder; ‘ Fossil Coleoptera 
from the Rocky Mountain Tertiaries,’ by Samuel H. Scudder; ‘On the 
Carboniferous Myriapods preserved iu the Sigillarian Stumps of Nova 
Scotia,’ by Samuel H. Scudder; by the Author. ‘Memoirs of the Boston 
Society of Natural History,’ vol. ii., part 4, nos. 2, 3 and 4; by the Society. 
‘Memoirs of the Peabody Academy of Science,’ vol. i, no. 4; by the 
Academy. ‘Memoirs of the American Association for the Advancement of 
Science ;’ by the Association. ‘The American Naturalist,’ vol. x., no. 6; 
by the Editor. ‘Notes and Descriptions of North-American Coleoptera,’ 
by John L. Leconte, M.D.; ‘Catalogue of the Coleoptera of Mount 
Washington, N. H.,’ by E. P. Austin, with Descriptions of New Species by 
