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JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS. 
others in spirits, and described the plan which he had adopted for 
disengaging them from the turpentine by the use of strong spirit 
of ammonia. 
He also exhibited specimens of various small insects in a fine 
state of preservation, which he had obtained from a gum which he 
considered to be Copal, by means of the oil of spike or lavender, 
but which from its high price cannot be generally adopted as a sol- 
vent. He also explained the difference between Copal and Anime, 
the latter being distinguished by a wavy slit when broken. 
Mr. Hope doubted whether the gum in question was Copal, 
which he had never found to contain insects ; he considered it 
rather to be Anime, and suggested the employment of the essence 
of caoutchouc as a solvent ; he also entered into various details re- 
lative to the distinction between Copal and Anime. 
Mr. Raddon also exhibited specimens of African insects in fine 
preservation, which had been sent to this country in spirits, and 
which he consequently recommended as an excellent method of 
transmitting insects from abroad. 
The same member also exhibited two specimens of moths found 
dead upon a furze bush, and apparently covered with a fungus 
which had grown upon and now enveloped them. 
Mr. Westwood exhibited a collection of types of all M. Westmael's 
genera of Braconidce, which he had received from that author. 
The following memoirs were read : — 
“ Notes upon the Trap-door-making Spider of Jamaica ( Cteniza 
nidulans ).” By W. Sells, Esq. 
“ Description of the Species of Haltica collected by Mr. C. Dar- 
win, in New South Wales.” By G. R. Waterhouse, Esq. 
“ On Caprification, with Descriptions of the Insects employed in 
the Levant for that Purpose.” By J. O. Westwood. 
Mr. Mac Leay, in allusion to Mr. Sell’s paper, stated that he 
had found Cteniza nidulans in Cuba, and in reply to some obser- 
vations of the president relative to other large species of spiders of 
tropical countries, he observed that he had found more than half-a- 
dozen in Cuba, which had been confounded under the name of 
Avicularia. 
Mr. Westwood, in allusion to Mr. Waterhouse’s Memoir, stated 
that the species of Haltica were stated by Mr. Cunningham, in his 
work upon New South Wales, to be equally injurious with the 
same insects in our own country. 
