224 PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 
carye we have found ovipositing the last week in the month on the 
leaves of the butternut. The Squash-bug, Coreus (Gonocerus) tristis, is 
now very abundant, eu di about the roots of the Squash vines, 
often in immense numbers, blackening the stems with their dark, 
blackish-brown bodies. pe insect is easily distinguished from the 
n our las 
is a true bug (Hemipter, of which the bed-bug is an example), piercing 
the ohen and stalks, and drawing out the sap with its long sucker- 
S E: 
PROCEEDINGS BESIEN SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 
SSSEX INSTITUTE. i pritte, Feb. 18, wea tee —Mr. N. E. Atwood, of 
Provincetown, presented some observations on the different ava 
of whales, and alluded to their phen The Sperm Whale feeds princi- 
pally upon the Squid, or Cuttle-fish. The favorite food of the Right 
Whale consists of small crustaceans, meduse, etc. The Finbacks 
ced on menhaden, and other small fishes. He then spoke of the re- 
lative size of the sexes. The males of the Sperm Whale have yielded 
as largely as one hundred and forty barrels of oil, whereas the females 
only yielded from fifteen to twenty barrels. Among the Humpbacks, 
e females exceed the males in size 
ade a few remarks u n the microscopic structure 
of ae ce, stating that, in his opinion, in addition to se 
as a stra’ he food of ae whale, the fringe of hairs, with 
touch, notifying it of the presence of its food. This theory is based 
u the fact of the hairs being but the termination of a series of 
tubes, which are continuous from their base to their termination in 
ree ends, and which are filled ebb a vascular pulp, which he had no 
doubt contained a nervous substan The examination of pieces of 
sh whalebone would be freman i decide the question. 
ACADEMY or NaTorat Scrences. Philadelphia, March 12.—Prof. 
ae ses Ene | oneal a spertinen of te skull of a la arge turtle in a 
t Barnes- 
boro, Camden Smor. New Jersey. It was of great interest, not p 
from the rarity of fi il Chelonian crania in our colle ctions, bu 
from its peculiar ee features. Prof. Ennis remarked on the 
pa Tiai Condition and Habits or the Gipsies.” 
