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Gloucestershire. — From the 25th to the 29th June I was in the 

 Cotswolds, where I again saw Edusa, but not commonly. 



Monmouthshire. — On the 30th June I saw a specimen of Edusa 

 in the Wye yalley, near Tintern. 



Hampshire. — On visiting the New Forest about the 8th and 9th 

 July, I saw a few recently-caught Edusa in the boxes, or on the 

 setting-boards, of some of the local collectors. 



Dorsetshire. — From the 12th to the 20th of July I was in the 

 Isle of Purbeck, where I found Edusa tolerably common along the 

 cliffs. 



The only county in which I have been during the last two months 

 in which I did not see Edusa, was Herefordshire ; but I was only in 

 it for two days, and the weather at that time was not particularly 

 favourable. 



I would observe that the condition of many of the specimens was 

 such as to preclude the possibility of their having passed the winter 

 in the imago state, and the limpness of the wings of one of them was 

 conclusive evidence that it had only just emerged from the chrysalis. 

 During the last few days, specimens of the ordinary, or what this 

 season may be called the second, brood of Edusa have begun to appear 

 commonly. On Saturday last I saw several in woods near Strood, 

 North Kent, and this morning I caught 34 in a field about two miles 

 from here. 



The A venue, Surhiton Hill, 



Surrey, 6th August, 1877. 



AQUAEIA.* 



By G. C. B. Madden, B.A. 



My paper claims neither originality nor yet novelty, for I simply 

 shall endeavour to describe the general arrangements and details of 

 the Aquarium, as seen by me at Manchester, in 1875. Naturalists 

 have often looked with longing eyes at the mighty ocean, and desired 

 to unravel some of the wonders which were locked up in her bosom — 

 they longed for the power of living and travelling under the waves, 

 that they might observe the marvellous changes, forms of life, both 

 animal and vegetable, in their native home. This can now be done, 

 for a visit to an aquarium is a visit to the realms of Father Neptune. 



* Read before the Members of the Hiiddersfield Naturalists' Society. 



