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Endophlceus spimdosus, the prothorax and elytra not denticulate, but, as 

 well as the head, the margins fringed with close-set projecting scales, the 

 surface closelj'^ covered with a white indumentum (or inflorescence, so to 

 say) arranged on the elytra in transverse rows ; the prothoracic tubers are 

 crowned with erect scales, and others, in a somewhat fasciculate form, 

 appear on the elytral carinse. 



Mr. G. T. Porritt exhibited living larvae of Phycis hetulcE, Goze, and of 

 Coleophora currucipennella, Fisch., feeding on birch. 



Mr. G. Coverdale exhibited two specimens of Coleophora paludicola, 

 Staiut., captured on the saltings near Shocburyness in July, 1884. 



Mr. R. M'Lachlan exhibited a specimen of Deiopeia pulchella, L., 

 captured on board ship in the Atlantic, many miles from the nearest land. 



Mr. J. W. Douglas communicated the following note : — 



" For five years past a standard apple tree, some twenty-five years old, 

 previously in good health and bearing fruit, has been annually attacked 

 severely by Schizoneura lanigera and Mytllaspis pomorum, and has gradually 

 pined away. Last year it was partly alive ; now it is dead, and its trunk, 

 six feet high, is entirely covered by the scales of the Mytilaspis ; the piece 

 of the bark sent herewith, on which they are as close as they can stick, is 

 a fair sample of the entire surface. I do not say that all these Lilliputians 

 were the sole cause of the death of the giant, for probably a radical 

 disorder had previously undermined the constitution of the tree, but there 

 can be no doubt that the insects by their pertinacity assisted materially in 

 the destruction ; they were in at the death, and have left their memorial." 



The President said it was difficult to believe that the Mytilaapis had 

 caused the death of the tree, as they only appear to live on the extreme 

 outer bark, and in a tree twenty-five years old the cambium would support 

 growth, the outer bark being practically dead. Messrs. Weir and Fitch 

 concurred in this opinion, pointing out that with the Schizoneura the case 

 was different. 



Paper read. 

 Mr. F. Enock read the completion of the "Life-history of Atypus 

 piceus, Sulz.," illustrating his remarks by the exhibition of numerous speci- 

 mens and drawings. 



