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propitiate their gods, owing to whose displeasure tlie locusts wore sent. 

 The last visit of locusts to the coasts is reported tohavc occurred about HO 

 years previously, when the people sufiered greatly for want of food in 

 consequence of their ravages. The rate of flight of this swarm has been 

 roughly estimated at six miles per hour. The first arrivals reached the 

 sea shore at about 11 a.m. and the last at about 2 p.m.; at this esti- 

 mate the depth of the SAvarm would be about 18 miles. The ex- 

 treme density of the cloud in the vicinity of Accra and Christiansborg 

 was owing to the front of the column being stopped by the sea, and 

 this was also the cause of the damage done to vegetation as no inclina- 

 tion to settle was evinced in their flight." The same observer further 

 reports that the following day about 1.30 p.m. a cloud of locusts was 

 observed to the north of Accra, but soon afterwards disappeared, going 

 northwards into the interior. We have quoted this at length as an 

 example of the better class of reports occasionally received of locust 

 swarms in Asia and Africa. In the discussion of this report by the 

 Fellows of the Entomological Society of London, it was stated by 

 Elwes that on one occasion on a passage up the Bed Sea on one of the 

 old P. and 0. paddle-boats, the boat had frequently to stop to clear 

 her paddle-wheels from locusts which had settled in such swarms as to 

 choke the Avheels and stop their action. 



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CoLROPTERA NEAR Cardiff. — The winter's task of naming and 

 arranging captures has resulted in several interesting additions to our 

 local fauna. Amongst them are the following : — Notuqildlua rufipcs, 

 one in the Castell Coch woods ; Rotten wood, in the same locality, 

 produced Anathidinm snninulunh and A. rotitndatinn, Acallcs ptinoidcs 

 and SraiiJiidiuiii qiiadriiiiacnlatiDii. P/iUimthiis jini.ciiniis was common 

 in j\Iay in carrion, with P. piidla and P. ai/ilu, Omosita depreasa, and 

 Qiicdiiis lateralis. Amongst the weevils a single (iiimnctron vwlanarim 

 occurred on wild garlic ; Tyc/iius towentosus and 2\ squamidatun were 

 found at Candleston on Lotus corniculatus, Sitones crinitiin on the 

 sandhills at Pyle, and Sittnws iratcrJiousei by sweeping cloverfiolds at 

 Llandali". Mclk/etJu's lui/idjris occurred on wild thyme at Briton Ferry, 

 and Huwaluta puhcnnla in Castell Coch woods. — B. Tomlin, B.A., 

 F.E.S., Llandaff. 



The development of wings in the larv.e of Tenebrio molitor, L. 

 — Whereas the Insecta-Ametabola and Hemimctabola develop wing- 

 cases during the course of their larval growth, which become larger at 

 each successive moult, and finally develop directly into the wing- 

 organs of the imago, it is well known this is not the case with the 

 Insecta-Metabola. In the latter case, it is the rule for the wing-organs 

 to be developed in the pupal stage. A short time ago, however, I was 

 aljl(! to announce the discovery of an exception to this rule. In experi- 

 menting with meal-worms in the Berlin Zoological Institute, a full- 

 grown larva was found, which possessed a pair of peculiar appendages 

 on the meso- and metathorax. The appendages in question are 

 symmetrical, those on the mesothorax somewhat larger than those on 

 the metathorax. On both segments the appendages are fixed to the 

 body by broad bases, the distended portion being bent round and point- 

 ing towards the rear. A more perfect examination of the thoracic 



