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for availing himself of the stored cells of the Ceratlna for this purpose, the 

 " Scarabeoidc" larva having been transferred to a glass tube containing 

 about four inches of moist earth, wherein it immediately buried itself, 

 constructing a cell against the ^ide of the tube, and thus facilitating his 

 subsequent observations. 



August 0, 187 9. 



J. W. Dunning, Esq., M.A., F.L.S., Vice-President, in the chair. 



Donations to the Library were announced, and thanks voted to the 

 respective donors. 



Exhibitions, lOc. 



Mr. Phillips exhibited living specimens of both sexes of Spercheus 

 onarginatns, taken at West Ham. 



Mr. Stainton exhibited, on behalf of Mr. Grigg, of Bristol, larvje of 

 Piiislerstcoiimia Erxlehella, a genus of which the larvae had hitherto been un- 

 known. These were obtained from lime trees near Bristol, feeding externally 

 on the leaves, quite exposed. They were very transparent, showing the 

 whole of the interior of the larv«, and with the segments deeply incised. 

 When full-fed they turned down the edge of the leaf and spun the cocoon 

 within the fold thus made, just like the larvte of the genus Ornix. 



Miss Ormerod read a paper entitled " Sugar-cane Borers of British 

 Guiana," and exhibited specimens of the insects referred to in different 

 stages of development. The first — a moth stated to be a Proceras (sp. ?) — 

 was the most destructive, and the other insects were Coleopterous belonging 

 to the genus Calandra — C. sacchari and C. palmarum. Miss Ormerod 

 made the exhibition on behalf of the Colonial Company, who were anxious 

 to receive any inforuiation as to available and practical methods of dealing 

 with these attacks. 



Mr. W. L. Distant stated that these insects had long been recorded as 

 destructive to the sugar-cane in the West Indies, and that the circumstances 

 were almost the same on the plantations in the Straits Settlements at 

 Malacca, where the usual remedy, and possibly the only one, was searching 

 for and burning the infested canes, thus gradually diminishing, and possibly 

 eventually to a great extent extirpating, these destructive insects. 



Mr. Swinton contributed the following note : — 



"At page xii. of the 'Proceedings of the Entomological Society of 

 London' for 1877, contained in the third issue for that year, I find the 

 following observations recorded : — ' Mr. Meldola stated that .... the larva 

 of Liparis aurijluu, which feeds upon hawthorn, sloe, apple, oak, &c., and 

 which possesses the well-known property of " urticating," could be adduced 

 as an example of a larva feeding on non-poisonous plants, and yet elaborating 



