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Fulgora, and the cocoon of the pupa was formed of the same 

 substance. Prof. Westwood had previously noticed this 

 extraordinary insect at the meeting of the British Association 

 at Oxford in 1860, under the name of Epipyrops anomala. 



September 6, 1876. 



J. Jenner Weir, Esq., F.L.S., in the chair. 



Remedies for Attacks of the Harvest-hug. — Mr. Weir men- 

 tioned that, on a recent visit to the South Downs, he had 

 suffered much annoyance from the attack of the harvest-bug, 

 as many as eighty pustules appearing on each foot. Several 

 remedies were suggested, especially rubbing the affected 

 parts with brandy and water; but Mr. Smith stated that on 

 one occasion when he was in the isle of Wight, and exposed 

 to their attacks, he had found that by taking a dose of milk of 

 sulphur he was effectually relieved from all annoyance. 



Enemies to Horse-chestnut Shoots. — Professor Westwood 

 communicated a note with reference to some shoots of horse- 

 chestnut, which he had exhibited at the July meeting of the 

 Society, as having been destroyed, apparently by some Lepi- 

 doplerous larvae or wood-boring beetles; but he had since 

 received from Mr. Stainton some shoots that had been 

 forwarded to him by Sir Thomas Moncrieffe, which had 

 been destroyed by squirrels in precisely the same manner. 

 Sir Thomas had himself seen the squirrels at work splitting 

 the shoots with their teeth and extracting the pith. Mr. Smith 

 remarked that he had found the common buff-tip moth 

 (Pygaera bucephala) very destructive of late to the Spanish 

 chestnut, a tree on which the insect is not usually found. 



Croesus septentrionalis Bred. — Mr. Smith exhibited a 

 series of sixty specimens of- a sawfly (Croesus septentrionalis), 

 which he had bred from larvae found feeding on young shoots 

 of the alder, growing on the banks of the Sid, near Sidmouth, 

 South Devon. The specimens of the fly were all bred in a 

 single flower-pot, nine inches in diameter. 



Mutilla europcea Parasitic on Bomhus muscorum. — Mr. 

 Smith also mentioned the fact of Mutilla europa^a having 

 been found parasitic on Bombus muscorum, by Miss M. 

 Pasley, in an Orchard at Shedfield Grange, near Wickham, 

 Hants. He also remarked on a coincidence somewhat 

 remarkable, that on the day previous to his receiving Miss 

 Pasley's communication. Professor Edward Brandt, of St. 



