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began to swell, and ihe whole arm pained excessively, with a feeling of sickness. 

 Ipecacuanha powder was applied, in the form of a paste, to the sting, and brandy 

 and water taken liberally. A native doctor, on being sent for, after rubbing the arm, 

 at length suggested a native remedy, namely, a small pan of live charcoal, upon which 

 were occasionally, as they melted, thrown pieces of wax, the smoke from which was 

 allowed to arise over the wound, and which allayed the pain to such a degree that in 

 about an hour and a half the patient was able to smoke. The stung finger was still 

 insensible to the touch and very much swollen, the arm cold as ice, although it had 

 been rubbed for two hours, whilst the sound hand and arm were hot. More brandy 

 and water, with cigars, were tried. The patient fell into a long sleep, and awoke next 

 morning with but slight remains of the pain of the sting. 



Mr. Stainton called attention to a paper by F. Bashford, Esq., read before the 

 Meeting of the Society of Arts, on the 4th ult., on certain experiments made with a 

 view to improve the present silk yieldings of India. 



Mr. Douglas read the following : — 



Cicada hcBmatodes. 



"In the December number of the ' Entomologische Zeitung' is a note by Dr. 

 Hagen, supplementary to his former papers in that journal on the singing Cicadae. 

 As the following has especial reference to English entomologists, I have translated it, 

 with the hope that it may fall under the notice of some one who will render the de- 

 sired service: — 



*' ' Concerning the types of C. haematodes, Herr Baron von Osten-Sackeu wrote 

 to me on the 27th May, as follows, — 



'"Three examples stand under this name in Linne's collection. The one bearing 

 the ticket, and the second, agreeing with the first, are both, to my view, not C. mon- 

 tana. Both of them are unspread, and have on the fore margin of the upper wings 

 a brown cross vein, which is wanting in the examples of C. montana to be seen near 

 them. Otherwise it seems to me the size is much the same, but the abdomen, as in 

 C. montana, with reddish margined rings; the base of the upper wings yellowish. 

 The third example is difilerent from both of the others. All the veins are broadly 

 brown, which gives the wings a variegated appearance ; the abdomen on both sides 

 broadly red. In Mr. Westwood's collection is an English C. montana. He at first 

 described it as new, but afterwards named it C. haematodes, though he did not recol- 

 lect whereon he had founded the name.' 



"It is not unlikely, according to this communication, that the two first specimens 

 belong to the above-mentioned variety of C. montana with brown-bordered subveins, 

 or to C. adusta. About the third I abstain from making any conjecture. Extremely 

 desirable is it that some English entomologist would undertake a new examination 

 and determination of the Cicadae in Linne's collection. " 



Mr. Westwood considered that C. haematodes ought not to be placed amongst the 

 singing Cicadae, as it appeared that no one had ever heard it sing. 



Dr. Gray observed that a lady of his acquaintance had captured two examples on 

 the window of a house in the New Forest, which were quite mute. 



Mr. Stevens said he had entomologized a great deal in the locality for the species, 

 but never heard any sound produced by it. 



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