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Menobranclius under consideration to rank as a separate species. 

 (1) Smaller size. (2) Colouration, the body being entirely black 

 except the gular fold which is white, the abdomen which is soot, and 

 the toes and an occasional present band at the base of the tail which 

 are olive brown. (3) Proportionately greater size of the head. 

 (4) The smaller number of teeth, especially on the vomers, supei'ior 

 maxillai'ies and mandibles, and (5) habitat, the form under consid- 

 eration being always found in swift streams, not in sluggish waters. 



Dr. Garnier gives some particulars as to his obserrations of the 

 habits of the Menobranclius he has studied. He finds they do not 

 survive more than two or three hours out of water ; they swim 

 rapidly, compressing the limbs against the trunk ; and shelter them- 

 selves in ci"e vices and under stones; they eat small living llsh and 

 Cray- fish by preference, and do not readily take meat in captivity; 

 they spawn towards the beginning of May, laying eggs which 

 measure in the ordinary species quarter of an inch in diameter but in 

 the var. latastei three-sixteenths ; during the spawning time the 

 cloaca becomes swollen and the tail stiffer as in Proteus. The 

 ordinary lake Menobranchus are often taken by fishermen in the 

 winter in lake St. Clair, and like the dog-fish (Amia) and like 

 sheepshead are regarded as unwelcome additions to the catches in 

 seines. 



The variety Latastei has been found by Dr. Garniei^ in the 

 Maitland river, the ordinary Menobranchus with which he has 

 compared it having been obtained from the Don and lake St. Clair, 

 where they are common. 



UMBRIA CAPTA. 

 Read before the Philological Section by Rev. N. MacNish, B.D.. 



LL.D. April 25th, 1887. 

 I have the honour to present to the Canadian Institute a new 

 interpretation of the TJmbrian portion of the Eugubine Tables. I 

 have to remark at the outset, that I have derived very great assis- 

 tance, as well in the interpretation of the Tables as in the preparation 

 of the geographical and ethnological notes which are appended, from 



