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Mr. Edwin Shepherd exhibited an old specimen of the same species, from Bentley’s 
collection, labelled “czsia,” in the hand-writing of the late Mr. Bentley. This 
specimen was reputed to have been captured in Yorkshire; and the fact that if 
resembled the specimens from the Isle of Man (which differed from the typical Conti- 
nental form of the insect, and seemed to be a permanent variety) was in favour of the 
British origin of Mr. Bentley’s specimen. 
Mr. Bond also exhibited a Phycita captured in the Isle of Man by Mr. Hopley, 
and which he believed would prove to be a new species; specimens of Sesia philanthi- 
formis bred from pupe sent to him by Mr. Greening from the Isle of Man; and a 
series of bred specimens of Papilio Machaon from Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire, 
remarkable for their large size, as were most of the specimens of that butterfly which 
he had bred during the present season. 
Mr. Edward Saunders exhibited a collection of Mexican butterflies, amongst which 
were Papilio Asclepias and others of that genus, and a gynandromorphous Euterpe 
(sp.?), of which the right side was male, the left female. 
Mr. S. Stevens exhibited Dicranocephala Wallichii from North India, and D. 
Bowringii from South China. 
The Secretary read the following extracts from the ‘ Journal of the Society of Arts’ 
of 29th June, 1866:— 
“Insect Wax.—The trade in this article in China is large. In 1864, from the 
single port of Hankow alone, 5100 cwt. were exported. It is taken by the Chinese as 
medicine, but is principally used as stearine in the manufacture of candles. It is one 
of the most valuable of the many products of Sze-Chuen, being worth sixty and 
seventy taels per picul (133 Ibs). The wax is deposited, for the protection of its eggs, 
by an insect which inhabits the trees on which the wax is secreted. The formation of 
the wax was a subject which occupied the especial attention of M. Simon, a French 
savant, who, a year or two ago, passed a considerable time in the interior, during 
which he is said to have traversed the greater portion of Sze-Chuen, and to have 
reached the eastern confines of Thibet.” (See Proc. Ent. Soc. 1853, pp. 93-95, as to 
this Coccus-product). 
“ Protection of Trees from Insects.—The following simple method of preserving 
fruit from the ravages of insects is reeommended by the Imperial Society of Practical 
Horticulture of the Rhone, and by the director of the School of Arboriculture of the 
Pare de la Féte d’Or at Lyons. The quantity of fruit destroyed by insects that 
deposit their eggs in the blossoms is enormous. These creatures are said to have a 
great antipathy to vinegar, the mere odour of which is enough to drive them away, 
and, in some cases, to destroy them, and nothing more is required than to sprinkle the 
branches with a mixture of vinegar and water at the moment the blossoms begin to 
appear. The mixture recommended consists of one part of vinegar to nine parts of 
water, but as French vinegar is very strong, perhaps the amount of water should be 
Jess when English vinegar is used. When the liquids are well mixed, the solution is 
to be sprinkled over the flower-buds by means of a garden engine or syringe, or even 
with a watering-pot with a fine rose. M. Denis, the director of the school referred to, 
tried the experiment last year, and reports that fruit trees so treated were covered with 
fruit, while those to which the acidulated water was not applied bore scarcely any. 
The other remedy proposed is against ants and other insects which mount the stems 
