JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS. XXXI 



Mr. A. While exhibited a drawing of a large and singular 

 wasp's nest in the British Museum, and read some notes relative 

 to it and the nests of allied species. (See his Memoir since pub- 

 lished in the Annals of Natural History.) 



Mr. Shipster exhibited a small collection of insects from South 

 Australia, including a large species of Mygale, which he consi- 

 dered to be the architect of the nest with a semicircular trap-door 

 exhibited by him at a former meeting. 



Mr. Fortnum exhibited a living specimen of one of the large 

 Brazilian species of Mygale, captured alive in the London Docks. 



A letter was read from Mr. W. G. Chapman, accompanying a 

 pair of living specimens of a species of Mygale, sent from Bar- 

 bary, by E. A. Drummond Hay, Esq., inclosed in their nests with 

 trap-door tops (^Actinopus ced'ificatorius, Westw,, Journal of Pro- 

 ceedings, January 6th, 1810.) Mr. Waterhouse stated that seve- 

 ral of these spiders had been sent to the Zoological Society, which 

 he had kept alive by feeding them on blue-bottle flies. 



Mr. Barnes presented a nest of a species of wasp attached to a 

 boarded ceiling, accompanied by a letter containing some account 

 of its Construction. 



Mr. Lane exhibited a specimen of H'lpparchia Briseis, a species 

 not hitherto recorded as British, which he had himself reared, 

 having found the caterpillar in the middle of August last upon 

 grass in the neighbourhood of Newington. 



Mr. Hope made some observations upon a migration of dragon- 

 flies recorded in the Magazine of Natural History of this month, 

 and stated that he had witnessed a nearly similar migration of the 

 same insects some years ago at Netley, and which he attributed 

 to the drying up of some large reservoirs of water. Li this in- 

 stance several distinct species were observed. A larva of one of 

 these insects had been brought to him as a strange kind of locust ! 



A few brief notes on sundry precautions efficacious in preserv- 

 ing furs and woollen articles from the attacks of moths, were 

 read by the Rev. F. W. Hope. 



