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against which a plain sheet of glass was pressed by clips ; 

 this was quite air-tight, but cumbrous^ and not suited for a 

 sliding drawer. It has since struck me that a very simple 

 drawer might be made with an India-rubber band fastened all 

 round the edge, — as in the tin tops made for jam-pots, which 

 would fold over the glass and make an air-tight junction. I 

 shall be much obliged for any suggestions. — IV. C. Marshall; 

 8, Spa Buildings, Clieltenham, August 22, 1874. 



[Practically I know nothing of the wood shrinking. I have 

 three cabinets, aged respectively forty, thirty, and twenty 

 years; neither has begun to shrink. If you pay a proper 

 price (twenty-one shillings per drawer, — they cannot be made 

 under), cabinets, I believe, never shrink. I do not write thus 

 to exclude suggestions, but to inform beginners who may wish 

 to avail themselves of my experience. — E. Newman.^ 



Extracts from the Proceedings of the Entomological Society 

 of London, July 6th, 1874. 



Sir Sydney Smith Saunders, C.M.G., President, in the 

 chair. 



Haltica (erata — Walnut eaten by a Lepidopterous larva. 

 — Professor Westwood exhibited specimens of Haltica 

 (Batophila) gerata, which he had found to be very injurious to 

 young rose-leaves. Also a portion of a walnut attacked by a 

 Lepidopterous larva, probably a Tortrix, but he was unable 

 to name the species, as it produced only an Ichneumon. It 

 was the first instance he had known of a walnut being 

 attacked by any insect in this country. Mr. M'Lachlan 

 suggested that the larva might be that of Carpocapsa 

 splendana, a species which usually feeds on acorns ; and 

 Mr. Moore stated that he had bred that species from a 

 walnut. 



Yucca Moth. — Professor Westwood made some remarks on 

 the Yucca Moth (Pronuba Yuccasella, Riley), of which some 

 fifty specimens had been sent to him, in the pupa state, by 

 Mr. Riley ; but he had only succeeded in rearing three of 

 them. He exhibited a drawing of a portion of the insect, 

 showing the peculiar form of the palpi, which were specially 

 adapted for collecting the pollen, which it transferred to the 



