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the remarkable thing about the fish is its sucker. Instead of being attacheii 

 to the pectorals it was distinctly detached, and (although the fish was quite 

 fresh when it was brought to me) the sucker was hard and apparently 

 useless for the purpose of adherence. The fish being in good condition, 

 the state of the sucker could not be attributed to disease. It may possibly 

 have been the result of age, but I have seen the male of this species so 

 rarely that on this point I am not able to offer an opinion. Since writing the 

 above, another very large male Lumpsucker has been taken (April 14th); 

 this time in Penzance Bay in a trammel, in about twelve fathoms of water. 

 It measures sixteen inches in length, and has the same peculiarity about 

 the sucker which I noted in the other. It was alive when I received it.— 

 Thomas Cornish (Penzance). 



INSECTS. 

 Scarcity of the Black-veined White.— In an article in the ' Ento- 

 mologist's Monthly Magazine' for March, Mr. Herbert Goss raises the 

 question whether Aporia cratcEC/i is dying out in this country. At one time 

 this butterfly was common in Kent, Sussex, Hampshire, Huntingdonshire, 

 Northamptonshire, Herefordshire, ]\lonmouthshire, and Glamorganshire. 

 Now it has disappeared, apparently, from all these counties. Mr. Goss does 

 not think that this can be attributed to the rapacity of collectors, and he 

 holds that it can be accounted for only in some localities by cultivation and 

 drainage. It seems to him more probable that the extreme acarcity or total 

 extinction of the Black-veined White may be due to a succession of wet 

 ungenial summers and mild winters. 



SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 



Zoological Society of London. 



April 5, 1887.-Prof. W. H. Flower, LL.D., F.R.S., President, in 

 the chair. 



The Secretary read a leport on tlie additions that had been made to 

 the Society's Menagerie during the month of March, 1887, and called 

 -special attention to two Long-tailed Grass-Finches, Foephila acuticamla, 

 from N.W. Australia, presented by Mr. Walter Burton ; nnd to a Fisk's 

 Snake, Boodou jisldi, and a Narrow-headed Toad, Biifo anr/iisticeps, from 

 South Africa, presented by the Rev. G. H. R. Fisk. 



Mr. F. Day exhibited and made remarks on a specimen of a Mediter- 

 ranean fish, ScorpcEim scrofa, taken by a trawler off Brixliam early in 

 March last, and new to the British Fauna. 



Mr. J. H. Leech exhibited some specimens of new Butterflies from 



