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last-named cell is a black horny spot. The saw (fig. 10) and ovipositor 

 (fig. 11) of the female have much resemblance with those of Cladius 

 uncinatus, King, which I described in the fourth volume of this 

 periodical, and represented at plate 4. It will be found on com- 

 parison that the difference between them is very small. 



I think Cladius albipes occurs in every part of this country ; I have 

 also received it from Belgium : according to the works referred to, it is 

 common in some districts of Germany. I am uncertain whether it is 

 found in France or England, as I cannot identify it as being men- 

 tioned in the works of Lepelletier, de St. Fargeau or Curtis. 



Arrival of a young Koodoo at the Zoological Gardens.— We are glad to announce 

 the accession of a young male koodoo to the collection in the Regent's Park. The 

 koodoo is one of the most magnificent and stately of the African antelopes, the full- 

 grown animals being furnished with magnificent spiral antlers of four feet and upwards 

 in length. Some years since a specimen was received at the Gardens, but in such 

 bad condition that it lived only a few days. The recent arrival is in good health, and 

 is gaining flesh rapidly. — From the ' Field.' 



Arrival of a Two-homed Rhinoceros at the Zoological Gardens. — The Zoological 

 Society of London have just received an important addition to their extensive living 

 collection, in the shape of a two-horned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros bicornis). The Indian 

 form of rhinoceros has long been well represented in the Society's menagerie, but the 

 very different African type, to which the present animal belongs, has been hitherto a 

 hiatus valde defiendus in the series. The animal which arrived yesterday, and which 

 is believed to be the only individual of the species that has reached Europe alive since 

 the days of the Romans, is a young male, about six feet long and three and a half 

 feet high. It was captured in the autumn of last year, iu the vicinity of Casala, in 

 Upper Nubia, by the native hunters employed by Herr Casanova, an enterprising 

 traveller of Vienna, and conveyed to Hamburgh (via, Alexandria and Trieste), along 

 with a number of African elephants and other animals. Here it passed into the pos- 

 session of Mr. Carl Hagenbei-k, a well-known dealer in living animals, of that city, 

 who has now parted with it to the Zoological Society at the price of £1000 — being, we 

 are informed, the largest sum ihey have ever paid for a single animal. The rhinoceros 

 is remarkably tame, and in excellent health and condition. It is fed principally on 

 clover hay. Pending the completion of the large building now in process of erection, 

 which is destined to contain the Society's series of elephants, rhinoceroses and tapirs, 

 it is temporarily lodged iu the giraffe-house. — Id. 



Albino Water Rat. — I am not aware whether a white, or rather a sort of creamy 

 pink, water rat, with pink eyes, has been often seen before; I certainly never saw or 

 heard of one until I caught the one I now have ten days ago. One of the gardeners 

 saw an odd animal run out of the grass, and threw his hoe at it, which cut off about 

 two inches of the tail. A cage-trap was set near the hole it ran into. In less than 

 half an hour the rat walked quietly into it, and was caught alive. It seems quite 



