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reported to be very injurious to the young wheat, destroying the main stem just above 
the root. 
Mr. W. W. Saunders observed that some similar larve had been brought under his 
notice by one of his neighbours in Surrey, but that if the larve attacked the wheat when 
very young the result was simply the destruction of the main stem, and the plant 
put out an additional quantity of other stems, and no more injury was done to 
the crop than by pasturing sheep upon wheat when getting too luxuriant early in 
the season. . 
Mr. Stainton exhibited a number of drawings, made by Miss Wing, of the Micro- 
Lepidopterous larve he had collected during March in the South of France, at Cannes 
and Mentone, including Acrolepia Smilaxella of Milliere, of which the larva fed on 
the leaves of the Smilax aspera; Hyponomeuta egregiellus, Duponchel, which fed on 
the Erica scoparia; a Gelechia (probably G. biguttella), bred from Doryenium suffru- 
ticosum and D. hirtum; Coleophora congeriella, Staudinger, on D. suffruticosum; a 
green Depressaria larva on Genista spinosa, which, instead of producing a novelty, had 
yielded only D. atomella; Gelechia Psoralella of Milliére on Psoralea bituminosa; an 
Elachista larva mining down a leaf of Carex, just as it might have been doing in 
England at the same period of the year; larve of the insect so injurious to the olives, 
and which Herr Kalteubach, of Aix-la-Chapelle, had last year first correctly referred 
to the genus Prays, Prays oleellus being evidently, both in form, structure and even in 
marking, closely allied to Prays Curtisellus, whilst there was a great similarity in the 
*habits of the larve, that of P. Curtisellus being as destructive to the shoots of the ash 
as that of P. oleellus to the shoots of the olive; also a drawing of a true gall formed 
on the shoots of Gypsophila saxifraga by a small Lepidopterous larva (probably of the 
genus Gelechia, but which had not yet been bred). Mr. Stainton observed that the 
only other instance of a true gall formed by a Lepidopterous larva was that formed by 
Asychna eratella on Polygonum aviculare. 
Mr. Stainton also exhibited a drawing of a larva found on spindle in his own 
garden at Lewisham, the habits of which were very peculiar, inasmuch as these larve 
were found only where there was a bundle of the “ frass” of last year’s larve of Hypo- 
nomeuta Evonymellus resting on the twigs of the spindle; but wherever there was 
such a mixture of web and excrement left on the plant one of these larve was to be 
found underneath, feeding on the bark and even eating the wood of the spindle. The 
appearance and agility of the larva reminded him much of the genus Gelechia; and. 
already were there three instances known in that genus (Intelligencer, Vol. vii. 
p- 157) of larve which were only found as companions of other larve. The beauty 
and neatness of the drawing of Miss Wing elicited very general admiration. 
Mr. E. W. Janson exhibited specimens of Throscus elateroides, Heer, a species 
not hitherto recognized as an inhabitant of Britain, captured, during the past month, 
by Messrs. J. A. Brewer and E. Smith, near Rochester, Kent, at the roots of herbage: 
he remarked that this species may be readily distinguished from its ascertained indi- 
genous congeners by its bi-carinate forehead, grooved eyes and the thickly punctate 
interstices of the elytra, and submitted magnified drawings and the following concise 
diagnoses of the three species now known to inhabit Britain: he likewise stated that 
Dr. J. A. Power had recently taken this species in the same locality and under similar 
circumstances :—— 
