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Mons. Wailly exhibited some interesting cases of silk- 

 producing BombyceSj as well as some living cocoons; and 

 iMr. Aslimead, a case with specimens of the gorgeous 

 Urtniia Madagascariensis, horn Madagascar. 



The Araclinidoi were represented by one drawer, sent hv 

 Mr. Hillman; who also sent two drawers containing galls 

 and other excrescences caused by insects on plants. The 

 only other galls were sent by Mr. Billups. Mr. Wakefield 

 contributed some Neuroptera from New Zealand. 



There were also some hybernating larvae of C/ielonia 

 villica sent by Mr. Reed; and Acidalia sculiilaUi, A. rusii- 

 cata, and A. immutata, showing his very successful method 

 of breeding, by Mr. H. Bartlett; while Mr. C. Willmot 

 showed some living specimens of water insects. 



Some cojiibs, surrounded by the paper-like envelope of 

 Vespa vulgaris, with hyberuatjng females, were shown by 

 Mr. Trew; and a case of living Italian bees, with a large 

 selection of bee-hives, specimens of produce, and apparatus 

 for bee keeping, by Messrs. Neighbour and Sons. 



A separate department was set apart for microscopes, of 

 which there were over forty exhibited ; and which, from the 

 amount of attention they received, appeared to be especial 

 objects of interest to the public. 



The method of mounting insects for microscopic examina- 

 tion without pressure, introduced by Mr. Enoch, must, we 

 think, revolutionise the present system of mounting entomo- 

 logical subjects. A knowledge of the muscular structure 

 can by this process be obtained, which it is impossible to be 

 gained by a study of the specnuens when squeezed out of all 

 shape by the old system of mounting. 



The walls of the galleries in which the Exhibition was 

 held were hung with diagrams and water-colour drawings. 

 Amongst the latter were a series illustrating the larvae of 

 thirty-eight species of the genus Eupithecia : these were 

 executed in admirable style by Mr. W. Buckler, and lent by 

 the Rev. H. H. Crewe. Fifty coloured drawings of exotic 

 butterflies, by Mr. S. L. Mosley, commanded universal 

 admiration. Mr. C. S. Gregson sent a number of photo- 

 graphs of his very fine varieties of Abraxas grossulariata ; 

 and some exceedingly interesting sketches, from nature, of 

 the life-histories of several of the Pterophori, &c. 



The only example of fossil Entomology was contribuletl 

 by Mr. E. Charlesworth, who sent his celebrated Stonefieid 

 fossil butterfly. 



