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America on that subject. Mr. Sells stated that the eggs of the 
new silkworm, distributed at the last meeting, had hatched, and 
that he had many caterpillars which thrived well upon mulberry 
leaves. 
The following memoir was read, 
“ Description of a New Genus of Exotic Bees.” By J. O. West- 
wood. 
August Isb 1836. 
W. W. Saunders, Esq., F.L.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
Donations. 
Faldermann, Insecta Mongoliae et Chinae. Presented by J. C. 
London, Esq. 
The Magazine of Natural History, No. 64. By the Editor. 
Some remarks on the Study of Zoology and on the Present State 
of the Science. By the Rev. L. Jenyns, M.A., F.L.S., &c. Pre- 
sented by the Author. 
Descriptions of the Articulated Animals collected in the North 
West Expedition of Captain Back. By J. G. Children, Esq. Pre- 
sented by the Author. 
Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France, 1836, part 2. 
By that Society. 
Nos. 13 and 14 of a Manual of Entomology. By W. E. Shuck- 
ard, Esq. 
No. 6 of Guerin’s Bulletin de Zoologie. Purchased by the So- 
ciety. 
William George Barnes, Esq., of Great Russell Street, Covent 
Garden, and F. Cochran, Esq. were elected Ordinary Members of 
the Society. 
Exhibitions, Memoirs, See. 
Mr. J. O. Westwood exhibited some stems of asparagus much 
eaten by the larvae of Crioceris asparagi, which has committed con- 
siderable damage in some of the market-gardens round London 
this season, where it has been very abundant. 
Messrs. Stephens and Shuckard stated that the Asparagus- 
Beetle seemed to be affected by local circumstances, as they had 
never found it at Battersea Fields, which abound with market- 
