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this new silkworm, and of the prospects of its ultimate success, regarding which 
latter point we will allow him to speak for himself. 
" Fortunate will it be for England, — fortunate, indeed, for Ireland, if land, 
" hitherto valueless, can be so tended as to furnish, with little care and slight cost, 
" a fabric warm and durable. Fortunate will it be for women and children (espe- 
" cially for workhouse habitues) if another health-giving industry be opened up for 
" their nimble fingers." 
" r cannot but be deeply struck with the remarkable chain of events which 
"have preceded these novel projects, and I feel confident that at no very distant 
" period Ailanthiculture will take high rank among English industries." 
As to whether this day-dream will ever be realised, is not for us to say ; both 
the insect and its food-tree are perfectly hardy in this climate, and it is to be hoped 
that when we shall have overcome the (in England) hitherto unconquered difficulty 
in winding the silk from off the cocoons. Dr. Wallace may, in watching the develop- 
ment of a new kind of manufacture, earn the reward he so justly merits. 
Entomological SociETy of London. 4th June, 1866. — Sir John Lubbock, 
Bart., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 
The President announced that Mr. VV. Wilson Saunders had invited the Mem- 
bers to an excursion at Reigate on the 6th of July. 
Osbert Salvin, Esq., M.A., F.L.S., of Bolton's Grove, Brompton, and T. Turner, 
Esq., of Exeter, were elected Ordinary Members ; and Count Mniszech, of Rue 
Balzac, Paris, was elected a Foreign Member. 
Prof. Brayley communicated an extract from the report of Mr. Consul Zohrab 
to Government, respecting the occurrence of a venomous spider amongst growing 
wheat at Berdiansk, from the attacks of which many persons had su0"ered severely. 
Mr. McLachlan made some observations concerning a caddis-worm case con- 
taining a dead jjupa, which had been found attached to the extremity of a rush, two 
feet above the surface of the water. He remarked that the instinct of the larva 
had been at fault, for when it had fixed its case previously to assuming the pupa- 
state, it had not taken into consideration the growth of the rush, and had thus 
been carried out of its element. 
Mr. Pascoe exhibited a number of Coleoptera, chiefly from ant's-nests, sent to 
the Rev. H. Clark by the Rev. G. Bostock, of Freemantle, Western Austraha ; they 
included two new species of Articerus, a singular insect (Ectrephes formicarum, 
Pasc.) with somewhat the form of Paussus, species of Anthicus, &c. ; descriptions 
of these were laid before the Meeting. 
Prof. Westwood exhibited coloured drawings and read descriptions of various 
species of Goliathidce, including 0. Kirkianus of Gray, from the Zambesi, G. For- 
nassinii of Bertolini, &c., &c. 
Mr. Stainton mentioned that from galls on Gypsophila, saiuifraga, recently 
found at Mentone, he had bred a species of Gelechia very closely allied to leuco- 
melanella, and remarked on the difficulties attending the discrimination of those 
species of this genus which fed on Caryophyllacece. 
Mr. C. A, Wilson, of Adelaide, communicated further notes on South Australian 
Bvprestidce. 
