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90. Achroia alvearia. This curious little moth has been this year bred in al>uu- 

 dance from a portion of honeycomb presented two or three years ago to Mr. Ingall by 

 Mr. Doubleday of Epping. Ten or twelve specimens came out the same year, and 

 Mr. Ingall, concluding all the chrysalides had turned, laid by the mass of comb, and 

 had completely forgotten it. In the spring of the present year a few moths made their 

 escape and were brought to him, when he immediately recognised his old friends ; the 

 mass of comb was quickly sought for and found, and after it had produced him more 

 than a hundred specimens Mr. Ingall gave it to Mr. Marshall, who, after obtaining 

 nearly as many, presented it to me, thinking I should be more interested in breeding 

 them for myself than in receiving specimens ; after I had secured about thirty speci- 

 mens, I made over the comb and the box containing it to my friend Mr. Bently, who 

 obtained as many more. This has always been considered a rare moth ; my cabinet 

 previously contained but a single specimen, taken by myself twenty years ago in a 

 house at Walthamstow, and many collections that have been quite that time in form- 

 ing, did not possess the species. John Chant ; 3, Critchell Place, Nnv North Road, 

 August 16, 1841. 



91. Entomological Society, September 6th, 1841. W. W. Saunders, Esq., F.L.S., 

 President, in the chair. The president read an extract from a letter received from S. 

 S. Saunders, Esq., in Albania, relative to the habits of the trap-door spider, Mygale 

 lonica. Mr. Tulk exhibited specimens of Tachina pacta reared from the abdomen of 

 Carabus violaceus, and of the young larvae of Meloe found on Volucella bombylans. 

 Mr. Hope communicated a drawing of a large Indian Lamia, accompanied by a letter 

 from Dr. Malcolmson, addressed to Professor Royle, relative to its destructive habits. 

 Mr. Ingpen exhibited two longicorn beetles, one of which had been reared in a sugar- 

 cane, in which it had remained more than three years in the larva state. Mr. Water- 

 house exhibited and read a description of a larva found in the stems of water-plants, 

 which he regarded as that of Donacia micans. Mr. Hope communicated a letter re- 

 ceived from Dr. Cantor, who is at present engaged in the Chinese expedition, relative 

 to the non-luminosity of Fulgora Candelaria. Mr. Yarrell exhibited the globular nest 

 formed of white silk by one of the English spiders. Mr. S. Stevens exhibited numer- 

 ous rare Curculiouidae captured during the preceding month at Arundel, including a 

 new species of Apion, the male of which had very singular antennae. Mr. Walton an- 

 nounced the capture of both sexes of Apion laevigatum at Birch Wood ; and Mr. New- 

 port that of Scolopendrilla notacantha at Hastings, a genus new to the British Fauna. 

 The former gentleman brought for distribution amongst the members a number of spe- 

 cimens of Apion Limonii. Mr. Westwood exhibited a fossil from Stonesfield, which 

 appeared to be the elytron of a large beetle, but which Mr. Newman considered to be 

 a portion of a fossil Cycadite. Mr. Westwood also read a memoir on the Lamellicorn 

 genus Mechideus, which he regarded as belonging to the family Melolonthidae, and on 

 several new genera belonging to the same tribe of beetles.—/. O. Weslivood. 



JOHN VAN VOORST, \T0\ MMK^^^ii/ PATERNOSTER ROW. 



