(sax 4) 
hare’s hair received from Brandon, Suffolk, in the previous 
November. 
He said the hair in question was without doubt of English 
origin, and in the ordinary course of preparation the skins from 
which it was taken would go through a number of processes 
including washing with a solution of mercury and nitric acid, 
after which the hair would be cut from the skins, packed in 
bales and put into store. The bales in which the larvae were 
found had probably been in store at Brandon for a couple of 
years, were thence sent direct to London, and the larvae were 
found in them upon their being unpacked immediately on 
arrival. There can therefore be little doubt that the bales 
became infected during the time that they were stored at 
Brandon. 
The portion of hair that he received out of one of the bales 
was put into a glass jar and it was thus possible to observe the 
behaviour of the larvae. During the time that they were 
feeding he could detect no larval tube or case, but on becoming 
full-fed they spun very tough cocoons, to which a quantity of 
the hair was attached and in these changed to pupae, and on the 
emergence of the imagines the pupa skins were left protruding 
about half their length from the cocoons. 
Bales of rabbit hair received at the same time, also from 
Brandon, were found to be similarly infected with the larvae. 
It is also on record that the species has been reared from larvae 
found on a dead cat (Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. viii, p. 209), all 
animal products, facts which appear to throw doubt upon the 
correctness of the granivorous habits originally assigned to the 
larvae. 
Mr. Sic referred to Rebel’s specimens obtained from a 
stuffed capercailzie, and Mr. ADKIN pointed out that the source 
of those specimens was, on Rebel’s own showing, problematical. 
Mr. Durrant said that species of Tinea were very common 
in the Brandon district, the refuse of rabbit skins being used 
as manure. He had beaten two T. pallescentella out of ivy, 
near a fowl-house at Merton. 
DISABLING AND OTHER INJURIES FOUND IN LEPIDOPTERA 
AND THEIR INTERPRETATION.—Prof. PouLton exhibited the 
male specimen of Acraea peneleos, Ward (pelasgius, Grose- 
