258 Canudian Record of Science. 
REFBHRENCH TO PLATH. 
N.B. The reader should notice that numbers are not always nearest to the figures they 
designate. 
Fig. 1.—Protolenus paradoxoides—a, Middle piece of the head- 
shield—b, Movable cheek. Both natural size. 
Fig. 2.—Protolenus elegans—a, Middle piece of the head-shield— 
b, Movable cheek—c, A pleura—d, Head-shield in 
profile. All natural size. 
Fig. 3.—Protolenus Zoppii (Olenus Zoppit Meneghini.) 
Fig. 4.—Ellipsocephalus galeatus—a, Middle piece of the head- 
shield—b, Movable cheek—c, Middle piece in profile— 
d, A pleura—e, var. agrauloides head-shield in profile. 
All magnified 2. 
Fig. 5.—Ellipsocephalus articephalus—a, Middle pice of the head- 
shield—b, Same in profile. Both magnified 2. 
Fig. 6.—Ellipsocephalus Hofi. Barrande. 
THE FoLK—LORE SOcIETY. 
The first meeting of the winter course of the Montreal 
Branch of the American Folk-Lore Society, took place on 
the evening of Monday, the 10th inst., at the house of Mrs. 
L. Fréchette, 408 Sherbrooke Street. The attendance was 
fair, and several new members gave their names to the 
Secretary. Professor Penhallow, first Vice-President, took 
the chair in the absence of the President, Mr. Beaugrand. 
He gave a brief account of his visit to Boston during the 
summer, and of the doings and plans of the Society in that 
city. Arrangements had been made for the holding of a 
Folk-Lore Congress at Chicago, under the auspices of the 
American Folk-Lore Society, and of the American Asso- 
ciation for the Advancement of Science. One of the latest 
movements for the collection of popular usages is a scheme 
for taking the street cries and criers of the large cities by 
means of phonograph. Efforts are being simultaneously 
made in Boston, Philadelphia, New Orleans and Chicago, 
to this end, and the task in Montreal has been undertaken 
