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the silk from worms fed upon lettuce was not near so valuable as 

 that when mulberry was used for food. 



Colonel Sykes mentioned some experiments made by Signor 

 Mutti, in India, upon the silkworms of the Deccan, whence it ap- 

 peared that the older leaves were far more nutritious to the worms 

 than the young ones. 



May 4th. 1835. 

 The Rev. F. W. Hope, President, in the Chair. 



Donations. 



Annales de la Society Entomologique de France, vol. iii. part 4. 

 By that Society. 



The Athenseum, parts 1 to 4, for 1835. By the Editor. 



Handbuch der Entomologie, vol. ii. part 1. By Dr. H. Burmeister, 

 the Author thereof. 



No. 4 of The Manual of Entomology. By Mr. Shuckard. 



Transactions of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club. By that So- 

 ciety. 



No. 73 of Illustrations of British Entomology. By Mr. Stephens. 



Observations on the Natural History of two species of British 

 Wasps. By the Rev. Edward Bigge, the Author thereof. 



Three Memoirs in Italian upon Th7-ips physapus, the Larva of 

 Zahrus gibbus and Calathus latus. By Signor Passerini, For. Hon. 

 M.E.S., the Author thereof. 



Descriptiones Generum nonnullorum novorum e Familia Lucanida- 

 riim, &c. By J. O. Westwood, the Author thereof. 



Insectorum novorum exoticorum (ex Ordine Dipterorum) Descrip- 

 tiones. By the same. 



A Box, containing about 70 species of Insects from Tuscany. 

 Presented by Signor Passerini. 



Robert E. Grant, M.D., Prof. Zool. in the University of Lon- 

 don, &c. ; 



T. Forbes Royle, Esq., F.L.S., &c., of Berners Street; 



T. J. Pettigrew, Esq., F.R.S., &c., of Saville Row ; and 



Robert Maulkin Lingwood, Esq., of Christ's College, Cam- 

 bridge ; were elected Members of the Society. 



Exhibitions, Memoirs, &c. 



Colonel Sykes exhibited a quantity of eggs of the East Indian 

 Bombijx Paphitt, which had been deposited previous to the impregna- 



