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its methods can be readily made, when it can be seen that it 

 does not take advantage of the natural opening into a fig, or 

 of a crack or other injury to a peach, but deliberately pierces a 

 hole, which afterwards shows as a small round spot, from which 

 decay invariably results. It seems a matter of indifference to 

 the moth whether the fruit has fallen, or is on the tree, ripe or 

 unripe. With regard to Acheea lienardi a,nd Serrodes inara , the 

 two species are restless and timid, and therefore more difficult 

 to observe. In the present season, however, both have 

 been extremely abundant, and have been seen at apparently 

 uninjured fruit, so that it seems they are capable of equal 

 destruction, and this is the more probable, as all the species 

 alike are provided with somewhat saw-like teeth toward the 

 tip of each section of the sucking apparatus. Several others, 

 feeding mainly on damaged fruit, were also taken with the afore- 

 said species, among them several new to science, and recently 

 described by Sir George Hampson. They included Pseudojihia 

 tirrhoea, Cr., 02)hiusct vielicerta, Drury, 0. mormoides, Walker, 

 Ophiusa griselmargo, Hampson, 0. selenaris, Hampson, Dysgona 

 faher, Holt, Ericeia unangulata, Gn., Homoptera glaucinans, 

 Gn., H. edusina, Pandesma umhrina, P. fugitiva, Trigonodes 

 obsfans, Audea ochripennis, Dordura tegidata, Hampson, Z). 

 retracta, Hampson, Hyhoccda deflorata, Deva natalensis, Oresia 

 argyrosigma and var. p-ovocans, 0. emarginata, Agrotis segetum, 

 A. munda, A. spinifera, A. amatura, A. decipiens, A, rimosa, 

 Noctua atrosignata, Axylia interstriata, Hampson, Gonites 

 sabulifera, Costnophila erosa and var. xanthyndyna, Leucania 

 intercUiata, Hampson, L. cdhovitta, Hampson, L. monosticta, 

 Hampson, L. rhahdophora, Hampson, L. taeuna, Feld., L. 

 aniens, L. torrentiuni, L. loryi, Lapjliygma exigua, L. orhicidaris, 

 and Eidaphygyna ahyssinia. 



Mr. Jacoby exhibited Ccdlomorpha ivahlbergi from Africa 

 and Spilopyra sumpHwsa from Australia. 



Paper. 

 A paper was communicated on " New Palsearctic Pyralidee" 

 by Sir George F. Hampson, Bart. 



