158 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



Mr. J. E. Hartiug exhibited and made observations on some antlers of 

 Roe Deer from Dorsetshire and Scotland. 



Mr. W. R. Ogilvie Grant read a paper on the Fishes of the genera 

 Sicydium and Lmtipes (belonging to the family GobiidcB), in which an 

 attempt was made to arrange the species of Sicydium into smaller 

 groups, the members of which were found to be allied together by con- 

 venient and distinctive characters. Five new species of Sicydium were 

 described. 



A communication was read from Mr. F. Moore on some new Asiatic 

 Diurnal Lepidoptera, chiefly from specimens in the Calcutta Museum. 



A communication was read from the Count T. Salvadori, containing 

 some critical remarks on an African duck, Anas capensis, Gmelin. — P. L. 

 ScLATEK, Secretary. 



Entomological Society of London. 



February 6, 1884.— J. W. Dunning, Esq., M.A., F.L.S., &c., President, 

 in the chair. 



The President appointed Sir Sidney S. Saunders, Mr. F. P. Pascoe, 

 and Mr. R. Meldola as Vice-Presidents for the year. 



Mr. P. Crowley exhibited eggs, larval galleries, pupae and images of 

 Castnia eudesmia, Gray. The specimens had been lately received from 

 Valparaiso by I\Jr. Watkins. The eggs greatly resembled grains of white 

 wheat in size and colour; the larval galleries (so-called cocoons) appeared 

 to consist of silk and sawdust, and were exceedingly tough and liard ; they 

 were from one foot to sixteen inches long and about four inches in circum- 

 ference ; in some instances they were very closely adherent to the spiny leaf 

 of the food-plant (Pourretia coarctata); the empty pupa-case protruded from 

 the side of these galleries, after the manner of a Cossus pupa, which it 

 much resembled. 



Mr. H. T. Stainton called attention to the life-history of Aglossa pin- 

 guinalis, Linn., as lately worked out by the late Mr. Buckler (Ent. Mo. 

 Mag., XX., 193), showing that the lard- and butter-eating capabilities of the 

 larva, with its special adaptation for such a mode of life, were merely a 

 fable, which had been fully accepted as a fact from the days of De Geer 

 and Reaunmr to the present time. In answer to a question from Mr. Fitch, 

 Mr. Stainton said that Mr. Buckler was likewise acquainted with the lurva 

 of Aglossa cvprealis, Hiibn., but how far its history had been written he 

 did not know. 



The Secretary exhibited photographs of the upper- and under-side of 

 the female Hypocephalus annatus, Desm., on behalf of Dr. D. Sharp, and 

 read a note. 



