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PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 
1853. The weed was covered with campanulas, which were still alive; thus forming 
a miniature vivarium. 
Some conversation then ensued relative to the so-called Aztec children. 
Professor Forbes stated, that Mr. Connolly of London said he could find instances 
perfectly similar to them in this country, allowing for difference of race, &c. 
Dr. Carte said, that they were by no means so old as was imagined; he had 
had an opportunity of examining the teeth of one of them, who could not have been 
more than eight years old. 
Dr. Ball exhibited skulls of various races, to illustrate the flattened character 
which some of them possessed in a great degree. 
Mr. E. P. Wright read a letter from R. Davis, Esq., Clonmel, relative to the 
appearance of the Dotterel and other birds. 
NOVEMBER 19, 1853. 
Dr. Ball, President, in the chair. 
Mr. Hogan read the following note on the larvae of Diglossa mersa, by J. O. 
Westwood, Esq. :— 
u I have carefully examined and dissected the little larvae you gave me as those of 
Diglossa mersa; I find them very interesting animals, and differing very much from 
the ordinary type of Staphylinideous larvae. The articulated caudal appendages, 
which are so much developed in the larvae of Staphylinus and all the other larvae 
of the family which I had previously examined, are in these larvae reduced to a very 
minute but still articulated pair of lateral setae, much shorter than the joint to which 
they are attached. The mandibles will do well for a Staphyline’s larvae ; but the 
maxillae are quite unlike those of any other larvae I know, being long and like the 
blade of a sword, with a short palpus on the dilated handle or base. As Diglossa 
itself is such an aberrant form, I suppose, under all the above circumstances, that 
the larvae may belong to it rather than to any other Necrophagous group.” 
The Rev. J. Greene exhibited a box of rare Lepidoptera, among which were 
specimens of Acronycta euphorbiae. 
Mr. Hogan then read the first part of a 
CATALOGUE OF COLEOPTERA FOUND IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF DUBLIN. 
Imperfect though a list such as the following must necessarily be, I trust that it 
will be of use in assisting to determine the limits of distribution which exist among 
our native beetles. 
Much of the information contained in this catalogue has been communicated to 
me by A. H. Haliday, Esq., and Alfred Furlong, Esq., for whose kind assistance I 
have great pleasure in returning my best thanks. The names of the genera are 
those adopted by the late Mr. Stephens in his “ Manual of British Coleoptera.” 
Cicindela campestris, L. Killiney beach. 
Demetrias atricapillus, L. Killiney and 
Portmarnock. 
Dromius quadrimaculatus, L. Under 
the bark of trees, common. 
,, linearis, 01. Portmarnock, &c. 
„ fasciatus, F. Killiney and 
Portmarnock. 
,, foveolus, Gyl. Portmarnock. 
„ truncatellus, L. Ditto. 
„ meridionalis, Ste. Cherry- 
wood, Loughlinstown. 
„ melanocephalus, Dj. Port¬ 
marnock, &c. 
„ agilis, F. Not uncommon. 
Clivina fossor, L. Abundant. 
Dyschirius thoracicus, Gyl. Portmar¬ 
nock and Portrane. 
,, salinus, Schaum. Portrane. 
,, globosus, FLbst. Common. 
Carabus granulatus, L. V ery abundant. 
„ auratus, L. This insect was 
taken some years since at 
Lough Bray, by the Rev. E. 
Tardy and the late T. Coul¬ 
ter, Esq. ; but I have not 
heard of any recent instance 
of its capture. 
„ glabratus, Pk. Lough Bray. 
,, nemoralis, Mir. Common. 
