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.. nale C. Imperialis and a female C. Refjalis were exhibited alive, thougb 

 they had unfortunately some^fhat injured themselves by having been kept alive 

 for several days, and brought in a tin box. They are not silk producers, but 

 bury themselves in the earth to undergo their transformations. 



BOMBTX ANGULIFERA. 



Some specimens of this moth were also shown which were bred from 

 cocoons sent from New York. This insect is rare in the States. It belongs to 

 the family of silk-producing moths, but is not likely to be useful for that 

 purpose. 



BOMBTX TAMA MAI. 



Mr. J. "W. Lloyd, of Kington, next exhibited some larvse of the oak 

 feeding silkworms, first the Bomhyx Yama Mai, the Japanese silkworm, a fine 

 fat fellow in his last skin, and some cocoons of the same insect ; and secondly, 

 some caterpillars in their fourth and fifth skins of the Boinbyx Pernyi, a Chinese 

 oak feeding silkworm. 



Mr. Lloyd also showed a white mole, Talpa Europcea, from Titley. It was 

 stuffed and had been captured with another white one in 186G, and it is remarkable 

 that four other white moles were trapped on the same farm about two months 

 since. The man who caught them says there are other white ones there, so'that 

 it would appear to be a regtilar variety in colour. 



Dr. Chapman brought with him a small specimen of the rare fungus Lentinns 

 Icjiideus, which had been found by Dr. M'Cullough gi-owing from the timbers 

 supporting a railway bridge near Abergavenny, — and the President brought a 

 Polyporus squamosus. Not a fungus was seen in the day's walk, nor is it likely 

 there will be any until the prevailing dry weather is at an end. 



A very able address was then given, entitled 



