PROCEEDINGS 



HOLME SD ALE NATURAL HISTORY CLUB. 



EVENING MEETINGS. 



October ISth, 1865.— Mr. Lees brought for exhibition a con- 

 siderable length of fibrous matter which had been taken out of some 

 drain-pipes only laid down in the month of September, 1864, and 

 which had completely filled up the pipes. The fibrous matter was 

 the roots of the Alder [Alnus glutinosa), and reached the great length 

 of 14 feet in the space of nine months, to June last, when the pipes 

 were taken up. 



Mr. Sydney Webb brought for exhibition the eggs of two species 

 of insects. One of these, the Lacewinged Fly, is a frequenter of 

 gardens, hedge-rows and coppices, and may be met with from the 

 beginning of May to the end of October. The larva is carnivorous, 

 feeding on the Aphis, of which it devours immense quantities. The 

 eggs, some eight or ten in number, are deposited at the extreme end 

 of a silken thread of about five lines in length, which is first spun 

 and securely attached to a leaf by the insect. The other specimen 

 consisted of the shell-cases of the egg of some small moth, from which 

 the caterpillar had already been hatched, and showed most distinctly 

 the different cells and natural doors for closing the openings to 

 them. 



The President brought for exhibition a very fine specimen of 

 the large spreading Fungus, Polyporus squamosus, obtained from 



