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Mr. White exhibited a remarkable spider's nest brought from 

 Jamaica by Mr. Gosse, which was very interesting, as serving both 

 for the receptacle for the eggs and the residence of the female. 



A paper by Mr. Dallas, on some new Hemiptera from Bhotan, 

 was read. 



Mr. W. W. Saunders read a monograph of the genus Erycina, 

 containing descriptions of many new species, and illustrated by 

 two plates, which he presented to the Society. 



5th March, 1849. 

 G. R. Waterhouse, Esq., President, in the Chair., 



H. F. Farr, Esq., Park Lane, Bath ; 



J. H. Vaughan, Esq., Red Land, Bristol, and 



W. J. Wild, Esq., Heme Hill, Camberwell, 

 were elected members ; and 



H. Cooke, Esq., 183, Western Road, Brighton; 



G. Ingall, Esq., 81, High Street, Borough ; 



Thos. Ingall, Esq., 16, Park Road, Stock well Park; 



A. Maitland, Esq., Torrington Place, Torrington Square; 

 were elected subscribers. 



Exhibitions, Memoirs, &c. 



Mr. Westwood informed the meeting that the vacancy at the 

 Berlin Museum, caused by the lamented death of Dr. Erichson, 

 had been filled up by the appointment of a local Entomologist, 

 whose name was all but unknown to science. Mr. Westwood 

 added, that he was sure that all present who knew Dr. Schaum 

 would lament that he had been passed over in the appointment to 

 a place for which his great talents so eminently fitted him. 



Mr. Westwood read a letter from W. Atkinson, Esq., on the 

 subject of a larva which had done very great damage by destroy- 

 ing the corks of wine bottles, which Mr. Atkinson appeared to 

 consider Coleopterous, but which Mr. Westwood considered to be 

 identical with those exhibited by Mr. E. Doubleday last year, 

 which proved to be those o? Gracillaria V.flava. 



Mr. Bedell remarked, that though Gracillaria V. fiava is very 

 common in wine vaults, he had always considered that the food of 

 its larvae was not the wine corks, but a fungus. 



The President remarked, that he had found Trogosita Maurita- 

 nica feeding on cork. 



Mr. Westwood exhibited drawings of a remarkable insect which 



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