X1V 
Election of Members. 
Count George Mniszech, of Paris, was elected a Foreign Member. Osbert Salvin, 
Esq., M.A., F.L.S., of 16, Bolton’s Grove, West Brompton, and Thomas Turner, Esq., 
of 5, Dix’s Fields, Exeter, were elected Ordinary Members. 
Exhibitions, &e. 
The Secretary read a letter from Dr. Wallace, in which the writer expressed his 
regret that the drawing of the full-grown larva of Bombyx Cynthia given in his 
Essay on Ailanthiculture (Tr. Ent. Soc. 3rd Ser, vol. v. pl. xvi.) was not quite truthful, 
the reason being that the larve were not sent to the artist until the fourth week in 
October, when the weather had become wet and chilly and the food deficient, and the 
larve were in consequence half-starved and torpid; moreover, on their journey the 
gray-blue bloom was knocked off, and was not subsequently secreted; it had, therefore, 
been impossible for the artist to do full justice to the larva. Dr. Wallace added that he 
had had sent him some eggs of the Japanese oak-feeding silkworm, Bombyx Yamamai, 
the young larve of which had hatched out, and required his constant attention during 
the previous month. 
Mr. Wilkinson read from the Report of Mr. Consul Zohrab on the trade of 
Berdiansk for the year 1865 (Commercial Reports received at the Foreign Office from 
Her Majesty’s Consuls, presented to Parliament, February, 1866), the following extract, 
communicated by Prof. E. W. Brayley, of the London Institution :— 
“The appearance of a poisonous black spider amongst the wheat at harvest time 
created for a few days a panic among the labouring classes. Wages rose to double 
their ordinary rate, and it was with difficulty the labourers could be induced to work. 
More than 300 persons were bitten by this venomous insect, but only three cases were 
reported to have proved fatal, and these deaths, it is supposed, are not to be attributed 
solely to the bite of the spider. Fortunately this visitation was restricted to one part 
of the town lands, otherwise the consequences might have been very serious. From 
some villages in this district news was received that the spider had also visited them. 
The bite of this insect was indicated by a hard white spot. The first symptoms expe- 
rienced were alternate violent heat and cold, shortness of breath bordering on suffoca- 
tion, an increased pulsation of the heart, and pains in the chest and back, theu weakness 
in the legs and dizziness in the head. After a few hours these symptoms diminished, 
and in two days the patient was able to resume his work. The general remedy employed 
was lo cup the poisoned part and liberally wash it with cold water. Sume cauterized the 
place, but this remedy was not so efficacious, and it created, besides, a fresh wound. 
The first ume this spider was seen at Berdiansk was in 1864, but very few persons 
were bitten by it. Last year, however, it increased to a most alarming extent. It was 
remarked that the spider was very active in killing locusts, on which it seemed princi- 
pally to feed, and it was only when disturbed that it stung persons. The majority of 
the persons bitten did not know the cause of their illness, and it was ouly the same 
symptoms in each case that proved it to be the sting of the spider.” 
Mr. M‘Lachlan exhibited the case of a caddis-worm which was found attached to 
a rush about two feet above the level of the adjacent water; it was of the genus 
Limnephilus, and be conceived that when, in accordance with the usual habit, the 
