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JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS. 
“ Mem. — Where rooms are papered, the floors may be washed 
with the Staves-acre decoction mixed with chloride of lime. 
“ And the effects of the decoction alone may be tried upon 
such articles of furniture as would be injured by the application 
of chloride of lime.” 
This decoction is sometimes used as a lotion for pigs, but 
whether for the mange or measles, or what other disease, Mr. 
Petit did not know. 
“ Additional Note relative to the Trap-door Spider of Jamaica,” 
accompanied by Figures. By W. Sells, Esq. M.E.S. 
“ Observations in Support of the Opinion, that the Blatta or 
Cockroach cannot be considered identical with ‘ Oreb.’ ” By the 
Rev. F. W. Hope. 
Mr. Petit made some verbal remarks on the necessity of consult- 
ing the ancient authorities for many practical points relative to 
the destruction or prevention of the attacks of various obnoxious 
species of insects, which had been suffered in too many cases to 
fall into disuse. 
Mr. Sells, in allusion to the memoir of Mr. Hope, observed, 
that in the West Indies the Cockroach attacks the living bodies of 
men, eating off the cuticle from the fingers and toes (which Mr. 
J. C. Johnstone likewise confirmed); and also made some ob- 
servations relative to the attacks of flies in Egypt, especially that 
described by Sonini under the name of the burning fly, which was 
exceedingly painful, especially when it came in contact with the 
naked skin. 
April 3d, 1837. 
The Rev. F. W. Hope, Vice-President, in the Chair. 
Donations. 
Bibliographic Entomologique. 2 Vols. Svo. By M. Percheron, 
the Author thereof. 
An Ornithological Letter to Mr. Swainson. By C. Waterton, 
Esq., the Author thereof. 
in English. It is the Delphinium Staphisagria of botanists ; and from it is ob- 
tained the Delphinia, or Delphiore, of chemists, mentioned in Brande’s Chemistry, 
2d edit. vol. iii. p. 74. It is figured in Gerard’s Herbal, Johnson’s edit. 1633, p. 
495 ; and in P. A. Matthiole’s Works, edit. 1674, p. 850 ; and I believe also in 
Woodvilfe’s Medical Botany. 
