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TRANSACTIONS OF THE SECTIONS. 
rod, in coarse lumps, is placed under a false bottom of blottiDg-papj#r, wWch 
serves the double purpose of absorbing the moisture arising from the deliquescent 
nature of the salt, and is also permeable to the air. A small g us , 
frrriag an insect from the net to the aperture of the instrument, completes t ho 
ippmtus, which may be carried into the fields. An insect usualh dus in . 1^ 
■t r*ac varying from forty seconds to two minutes ; but in the larger ” 
ml Lepidoptera a longer treatment is desirable, to provide against the possibility o 
twudtatiou. , , 
Us author considered that the cyanide possessed many advantages over ciubhcd 
hori leaves, -which cannot always oe obtained. The salt, now so extensively used 
rMbe irt3, is inexpensive and may be kept for any length of time in stoppered bottles, 
«>i ii thus available abroad. The instrument, ulso, is always ready, for a charge 
’I thirty or forty grains will keep up a poisonous atmosphere for a month or longer 
vflbrmt renewal. 
i -ingular instance of resistance to the action of the cyanide was then exemplified, 
ituprcgnated female of the Burnet sphinx {Anthrowa I'ilipcndvla ) wa* placed in 
nistrument in company with the spectre moth (Mormo JlfaNni). Hie large 
r ^ct was dead in less than two minutes, but the P.urnct was comparatively lively 
toe expiration of fourteen hours. It is worthy of note, that oviposition did 
until •deration of the insect from confinement, possibly showing a 
oa the part of the insect that such an atmosphere was fatal to the larvae 
* excluded from the egg or injurious to the vitality of the egg itself. As both 
* Hr/a and imago of Tinea pellionelk were experimentally proved to be incapable 
bn s 1 S the acdoH of tlle vapour from the cyanide, a suggestion was made, that 
,| 3tuffei1 6 l ,e citnens of natural history might be freed from moth by sub- 
The r ^ Fauna of Liverpool. By Isaac Byisrlv. 
AaoiiJt^K^ anima ' 3 was ve ‘T complete, and comprised some remarkable forms. 
Jhlfitofl ie * e be mentioned the following: —1. The bottlehead { Uyperoodon 
‘..rny beak, f the . 8toraa ch of two of the specimens captured great numbers of the 
kerning ot cuttle-fishes were found, ami tliesc were impacted one in another, 
'•nmnstratei !{, nUou . 3 row - 2 * Trachinus viper a. In this fish, Mr. Byerly had 
*■ ImioMim, 7 existence of a poisonous secretion at. the base of its spines. 
Ki. 4 ”P a ™^cs, the rarest species of British newt, had been taken near Liver- 
Wngfiah .n y A f l * le rarer British fishes had occurred on the coast,—as the opah 
"Shinto Moll n 8 'i tSey Morr »^ the Turpedu n oldlis. 5. Many species of Nudi- 
Mliahed but ' U m a lad bce “ taken j and one species, Antiopa hyalina, is not vet 
0,1 these a a * > P ear ! u r l ''° forthcoming part of Messrs. Aider and Hancock’s 
*** noted • Bn,i aD | lma u* d ' occurrence of Naciiluca miliar is in large numbers 
°f the anecip. 8 rthen gave the water a rose-colour. The following is a 
rA l9G; R,. n t:i°. c , 6 !’ eat section of the animal kingdoms—Mammalia, 41 ; 
,, ' ^hinodenmt 8 ’ V ’ ^ahes, 100 j Molluscs, 185 ; Crustacea, 71; Lepidoptera, 
’ •’^tlvir. a ’ Acalephse, 14 j Zoophytes, 68 ; Sponges, 5: about 1400 
Ur >, u *d r ed and Forty Species of Shells from Mazatlan. 
authoren t /• 1 ’ Carpenter, L.A., Warrington. 
by C. B r \r com P ar ‘ SQn between them and the shells of Panama (as 
C^UootbariLr aud other places. A very large proportion of the Ma- 
tfe* fr ^ ari8 °n of tins ah ii n ^ c '' cri h'‘d, all such results will be open to correction. 
Aatu^ble fact th,^ C ° c " c ! ed ^ Mr. Nuttall on the Calil'urniati coast shows 
^Ub. i' 1 !’• altlu, ugh thea f . . scarCel ■ Rn y a P ecicB wt common to that coast and to 
1,1 ‘Pecian' 1 ’ a ! :car !ite accounllf a J c p neia "y calle(i " Californian." The importance 
M to . A'ities, was n i ! de ^ aunas - “Ot only of zoological provinces, but 
‘entitle inquirip,* 1 u P on > and it was suggested that very valuable 
uid be given by the formation of separate collections 
