42 THE ESSEX NATURALIST.
One remarkable thing about these remains is the large proportion of
the remains of Fowls and Cats as well as of very young sheep (or
perhaps Goats).
E. T. Newton.
John Brown of Stanway and the Geology of the Essex Coast.—
A long diagram of the coast section from the Naze to the entrance of the
Colne Estuary, together with a vertical section of the Estuarine deposits
which occur at Clacton, are preserved in the Saffron Walden Museum.
They appear to have been presented by John Brown, of Stanway, who had
prepared them and sent them to G. S. Gibson, the banker of Saffron
Walden, who was forming a cabinet of Essex Mollusca in the middle of
the 19th century. Guy Maynard.
Phalacrocera replicata in Essex.—At Dagenham I found the
curious larvae not uncommon in ditches in 1910, and frequently encountered
it in ponds at Theydon Bois up to 1919. . . . The sluggish larvae
are difficult to see, resembling in colour and texture the green fronds of
the moss [Hypnum]. An expert eye is needed to distinguish the adult
from the many crane flies which' swarm in summer, but the remarkable
larva can hardly be mistaken.
Fredk. J. Stubbs, in Entomologist, July, 1924.
A Broadcasting Beetle.—On 9th August last, our member, Mr. Hugh
Main, B.Sc., F.E.S., F.Z.S., gave from London a wireless talk on the Dor
Beetle, in the course of which a specimen of the beetle was induced to broad-
cast a stridulation which was distinctly heard by listeners throughout
the country—undoubtedly the first occasion upon which an insect has
had such an enormous audience. Editor.