PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 425 
(‘ Introduction to the Study of Fishes,’ p. 435); whether following Gill or 
not does not appear. The editors have most correctly omitted this from 
their list, it being founded entirely on error. Huoxymetopon teniatus with 
a smooth abdomen, no ventral, a perceptible anal and well-developed caudal 
fin, cannot be identified with a fish described as twelve feet nine inches 
long, no ventral (broken off) or anal, and no caudal; ‘but the thin edge of 
the belly was closely muricated with small hard points, which, although 
scarcely visible through the skin, was very plainly felt all along it.” Hoy’s 
fish most unquestionably was Banks’s Oar-fish, Regalecus Banksii, which 
has longitudinal bands of colour, also observed in the West Indian 
Euoxymetopon.—F rancis Day (Kenilworth House, Pittville, Cheltenham). 
PoRBEAGLE SHARK OFF PLymMoura.—On August 20th a small Porbeagle 
Shark, Squalus cornubicus, measuring three feet six inches in length, was 
caught off Plymouth with a hook and line, and brought to Mr. Hearder. 
On opening its stomach he found among its contents five large whiting- 
hooks, and three silver “spinners,” two of the latter, strange to say, being 
marked with his own name, the third having no mark at all. The 
jaws of this fish were nicely prepared, and presented to Mr. Francis Day, 
who happened to be visiting Plymouth at the time of its capture.—Joun 
GatcomBe (55, Durnford Street, Stonehouse, Plymouth). 
PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 
EntomoLocicaL Society or Lonpon. 
August 8, 1881.—R. Mstpota, Esq., F'.C.8., &c., Vice-President, in 
the chair. 
Miss E. A. Ormerod exhibited numerous specimens of Coleoptera and 
Hemiptera, in spirits, which had been collected by Mr. Bairstow in the 
neighbourhood of Uitenhage and Port Elizabeth, South Africa. 
Mr. A. H. Swinton communicated some observations on Jodis vernaria, of 
which the following is an abstract :—This species is common on the Surrey 
Hills, and when in repose its wings hang limp and roof-shaped, with their 
exterior extremity rising above the head like a crest. This arrangement 
allows great vertical play to the abdomen, and much facilitates oviposition. 
On opening a box containing a living female, Mr. Swinton was surprised to 
perceive a most sickly smell of honey, resembling the scent of clematis 
blossoms (on which plant the larva feeds), but more pungent. He also 
observed small minute columns of emerald-green, attached here and there, 
which proved to be eggs, shaped like draughtmen, and piled up one on the 
top of another, in a slight curve, to the number of twelve or fifteen. The 
odour appeared to arise from the substance by which the eggs were 
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