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obligingly supplied ire with this information, adds, " Many people 

 saw this motion day after day ; we had them exhibited at parties, and 

 I think if you reflect you will agree with me that it is nothing more 

 than a repetition of the old trick of the mouse in the egg, and"-^here, 

 gentlemen, I wish you to notice particularly Dr. Hooker's concluding 

 words — " besides this rocking I never saw any other motion whatever." 

 The accounts previously published in Reaumur and Kirby and Spence, 

 of cocoons or pupoe possessing locomotive powers, and to which allu- 

 sion was made at two successive meetings, do not appear to meet the 

 case : they belong to quite another class of phenomena, and must still 

 rest on their respective authorities, which I do not for a moment 

 question, but which are totally independent of and totally unsupported 

 by these more recent observations. 



The year has been remarkable not only for the number but for the 

 extent and the intrinsic value of its entomological publications. 

 Of our own 'Transactions,'* of which four unusually valuable parts 

 have been published, I refrain from saying anything, since every 

 member must be thoroughly acquainted with them : of the other serials 

 I say but a few words. 



In the 'Annals and Magazine of Natural History'! for August is 

 a description by Mr. Wollaston of an entirely new curculionideous 

 insect, which that gentleman has called Pentarthrum Huttoni : it is 

 one of the Cossonides of Schonherr, yet is so singularl}' constructed 

 as respects the funiculus of the antennae, which is five-jointed, that it 

 may be regarded as connecting the Cossonides with the Rhyncopho- 

 rides, in which a similar number of joints occasionally obtains: four 

 specimens of this curious insect were extracted from the hard and un- 

 decayed wood of a cherry tree at Alphington, near Exeter, in 

 November, 1853. 



Mr. Stainton has commenced, in the ' Zoologist,'! an essay on Ento- 



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