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had been bitten by one (about six inches in length) behind the 

 ear, he was in great pain for about six hours, ammonia, lauda- 

 num and several other things were applied to the bite but with- 

 out avail, the pain passed oft" suddenly by itself. — Mr. Meaden 

 said he did not know of any case of a centipede bite, but he saw 

 a coolie stung by a scorpion show the first symptoms of epilepsy 

 eighteen hours after the sting. At the same time he had seen 

 men that were stung without an}' bad effects following, except a 

 short temporary pain. The President said he had received a 

 letter from Mr. Wardle. President of the Silk Association of 

 Great Britain, congratulating him on his discovery of the Atta- 

 cns Bolicar here and he hoped that the correspondence would be 

 kept up, as it Avas very interesting to him. — The President ex- 

 hibited an Ichneumon Ophioii macrurnui found in a chrysalis of 

 the Attacns Bolirar. He also showed mounted slides of the four 

 following small insects which are all enemies to the Xijleborus 

 perforans : — They are (I) Tuphoea fmnata, (2) llltizophufins im- 

 pressicolis, (3) Canoletus conictis, (4) Carjiaj^hilus dunidaftis. 

 The li. hujiressicolls especially is the sworn enemy of the cane 

 borers, as it follows them into the burrows and destroys the 

 eggs and larva?. Mr. Broadway exhibited a case of different 

 beetles and a moth nicely mounted which were (1) cigar beetle, 

 Lasiodenna testacea, very destructive to cigars ; (2) Linseed 

 beetle, Trllobiuna ferrugineiim ; (3) Bamboo borer, Sitophilus 

 ori/za ; (4) Two dift'erent species of Crepidodua, one injurous to 

 the leaves of the egg plant, Melogenes ; the other found on a sap- 

 indaceous plant at Caledonia Island, doing much damage to the 

 leaves on which it feeds in its larval and perfect state ; (o) Not- 

 archa siliralis — moth — larva; destroys the leaves of ramie libre 

 and Bois Canot. — Mr Potter exhibited a curious hairy Bomhyx 

 caterpillar from Guapo. 



FIRST ANNUAL MEETING, 



8th Augcst. 



Present : His Excellency, Sir Frederick Napier Broome, 

 K.C.M G., Patron. Henry Caracciolo, Esq. (President), Hon. J, E. 

 Tanner, Messrs. W. E. Broadway. F. W. Urich, R. R. Mole, PL. 

 Guppy, J. Nairn, R. Dumoret, J. Petersen, J. G. Keed, C. W. 

 Scott, C.W.Meaden, L.deVerteuil, H. F. Wilson, T.J. Potter, Syl. 

 Devenish, M.A., J. H. Collens, F. Eagle, and A. Taitt, (Secretary). 



The Hon. S. H. Gatty, Acting Chief Justice, Mr. Justice 

 Lewis and Mr. W. Miles, B.A., were present as guests. 



