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coast in the neighbourhood of Panaga, he witnessed a singular overland migration of 

 Ikan Puyu (a fish much resembling the tench in size, form and colour), from a chain 

 of fresh-water lagoons lying immediately within the sea beach, towards the second 

 chain of lagoons, about a hundred yards distant inland. The fish were in groups of 

 from three to seven, and were pursuing their way in a direct line towards a second 

 chain of lagoons at the rate of nearly a mile an hour. When disturbed they turned 

 round and eudeavoured to make their way back to the lagoon they had left, and 

 would very soon have reached it had they not been secured by the Malays who accom- 

 panied our correspondent, and who looked upon the migration as an ordinary occur- 

 rence at this season of the year. Upwards of twenty were thus taken during a walk of 

 about half a mile, and no doubt many more could have been obtained had the Malays 

 been allowed a little delay. The ground these fish were traversing was nearly level, 

 and only scantily clothed with grass and creeping salsolaceous plants, which offered 

 very slight obstruction to their progress. This singular habit will account for the 

 rapidity with which the paddy fields in Province Wellesley become stocked with fish 

 when they are flooded by the rains. The lagoons from which they came contain water 

 throughout the year, while those towards which they were going are mere hollows, 

 filled by the late rains.— London and China Telegraph. 



Proceedings of Societies. 

 Entomological Society. 



Annual General Meeting, January 26, 1863.— Frederick SxMITH, Esq., President, 

 in the chair. 



An Abstract of the Treasurer's Accounts for 1862 and the Annual Report of the 

 Conncil on the general concerns of the Society were read. 



The following gentlemen were elected Members of the Council for the ensuing year. 

 Messrs. Dunning, Grut, Sir John Hearsey, M'Lachlau, Pascoe, W. W. Saunders, E. 

 Shepherd, F. Smith, Stainton, S. Stevens, Waterhouse, J. J. Weir, and Professor 

 Westwood. 



The following Officers were then elected for the ensuiug year. Mr. F. Smith, 

 President ; Mr. S. Stevens* Treasurer ; Messrs. Shepherd and Dunning, Secretaries ; 

 Mr. Janson, Curator. 



The President delivered an Address on the present state of the Society, in which he 

 reviewed the acta entomologica of the past year. 



Mr. Stainton proposed, Professor Westwood seconded, and the Meeting unani- 

 mously carried, a vote of thanks to the President for his conduct in the chair during 

 his year of office, and in particular for the Address which he had just delivered. The 

 vote was accompanied by a request that the President would allow the Address to be 

 published in the ' Journal of Proceedings.' 



The President returned thanks to the Society for the vote just passed, and also for 

 re-electing him to the Presidential chair. 



A vote of thanks to the Treasurer, Secretaries, and the retiring Members of the 

 Council, for their serviees during the past year, was also carried unanimously, aud was 

 acknowledged by Messrs. Stevens, Dunning and Lubbock respectively. 



