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late Wm. Thompson himself, to whom I sent the specimen. — Robert 

 Warren (Moyview, Ballina, Co. Mayo). 



Leptocephalus Morrisii at Killala Bay.— On February 26th, while 

 walking on the sands outside the island of Bartragh, I found two specimens 

 of this curious little fish, left by the previous tide at high-water mark, and 

 although it was fully six hours since they had been thrown ashore, they 

 both showed such vitality as to move about in a vessel of water for some 

 time after they were found. The largest was fully six inches in length, and 

 both were perfectly transparent, the only trace of colour that T could see 

 about them was in the eye-balls. They were both thrown up on the sands 

 within a few yards of each other. Although Thompson, in the fourth 

 volume of his ' Natural History of Ireland, refers to the occurrence of this 

 species on many parts of the Irish coast, I have never before met with a 

 specimen. — Robert Warren (Moyview, Ballina, Co. Mayo). 



SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES, 



Linnean Society of London. 



February 18, 1892. — Prof. Stewart, President, in the chair. 



Mr. Stanley Edwards was admitted, and Messrs. C. Chilton, F. A. 

 Skuse, and J. Humphreys were elected Fellows of the Society. 



The President exhibited specimens of Cystoccelia immaculata, an 

 orthopterous insect from Namaqualand, in which the female is far more 

 conspicuously coloured than the male (which is unusual), and the stridulating 

 apparatus of the male differs in certain important details from that of other 

 species. A discussion followed on stridulation in insects and the various 

 modes of producing it, in which Messrs. C. Breeze, E. M. Holmes, and 

 B. Daydon Jackson took part. 



The President also exhibited some specimens of a crustacean, Ocypoda 

 ceratophthalma, and communicated some interesting information thereon. 



A paper by Prof. Groom was then read "On Bud-protection in Dicoty- 

 ledons," and in his unavoidable absence, the author's views were expounded 

 by Mr. B. Daydon Jackson. 



Mr. W. T. Thiselton Dyer, C.M.G., F.R.S., communicated a paper, 

 by Herr F. Stephani, entitled " A Revision of Colensos New Zealand 

 Hepaticce." 



March 3. — Prof. Stewart, President, in the chair. 

 A letter was read from the Home Secretary, conveying the thanks of 

 Her Majesty the Queen for the address of condolence which had been 



