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Vanrssfr which settled on these flowers. Mr, Barrett said 

 he had noticed a spider with the same habit on the Ox-Eye 

 Daisy in Surrey. Mr. Bethune-Baker also exhibited a very 

 curious dark variety oi Arctia caja, bred by Mr. Moore. 



Professor Meldola stated that it had been of late found 

 difficult to store bristles in the City owing to the ravages 

 of a moth, of which he exhibited living specimens of the 

 larvte and pupje. Mr. Barrett said that the moth was Tinea 

 hiseUiella. Mr. Blandford stated that the bisulphide of 

 carbon treatment might be found to be of advantage if it 

 were practicable, but more would have to be ascertained 

 with regard to the extent and character of the ravages before 

 anything could be determined upon. Mr. Merrifield, Mr. 

 Green, and others took part in the discussion which followed. 



Mr. Blandford called attention to the use of formalin as a 

 preventive of mould, and said that it would probably be found 

 of use in insect collections ; an object once sprayed with this 

 substance never became mouldy afterwards. Professor Mel- 

 dola said that foi-malin was another name for a solution 

 of formic aldehyde : it is now much used in the colour 

 industry and is, therefore, produced on a large scale. 



Paper Read. 

 Mr. Newstead communicated a paper entitled " New Coc- 

 (■id(c collected by the Eev. A. E. Eaton in Algeria." 



December 2nd, 1896. 



Dr. David Sharp, M.A., F.R.S. , Vice-President, in the 

 Chair. 



Donations to the Library were announced, and thanks 

 voted to the respective donors. 



Exhibitions, etc. 

 Dr. Sharp exhibited the series of Longicorn Coleoptera of 

 the genus Plagitkmysus from the Hawaiian Islands, of which 

 a preliminary account had recently been given by him else- 

 where. He said that these examples were the result of Mr, 

 Perkins' work for the Sandwich Island Committee, and 



