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impressions are here recorded,—made, however, immediately after a close examination 
into the relations of other fussil insects. I earnestly hope that this locality, from 
which these remains were disinterred, may receive a most careful and thorough 
examination. Hitherto the study of fossil insects has been mainly confined to those 
of much more recent date, and has resulted in shedding comparatively little light upon 
geological and paleontological questions; but these few remains, coupled with the 
pair of insects found in Illinois, induce us ardently to anticipate that the future study 
of fossil insects, drawn from such ancient strata as these, nay lead to as brilliant and 
important results, in the elucidation of geological problems still open, in widening the 
range of our paleontological horizon, and in our general knowledge of the history of 
life on our globe in all its bearings, as have been reached by the study of the remains 
of animals of a more substantial structure, but which have hitherto been denied to the 
student of fossil Entomology.” 
Prof. Westwood mentioned that at the recent Meeting of the British Association, 
Prof. Grube had exhibited a fossil spider from the coal measures, which was perhaps 
identical with one figured in Petiver’s ‘Gazophylacium,’ 
Mr. Scudder mentioned that in the Brodie collection were fossil forms very much 
resembling some American spiders. 
Mr. C. A. Wilson, of Adelaide, communicated another instalment of his notes 
“On the Buprestide of South Australia.” 
Prof. Westwood directed attention to M. Henri Deyrolle’s recent work, ‘ Descrip- 
tion des Buprestides de la Malaisie, recueillis par M. Wallace’; Mr. A. R. Wallace’s 
collection of Buprestide had become the property of Count Mniszech, and M. H. 
Deyrolle had described no less than 355 species of that family. 
The Secretary read the following account, with which he had been furnished, of 
the recent 
Paris Exhibition of Insects —‘ This curious exhibition has attracted the attention 
of men of science and agriculturists, but most particularly of those who are interested 
in the rearing of bees and silk-worms, which naturally occupy the chief places. The 
collection of bee-hives, some shown in operation, and of other matters connected with 
the rearing and management of these interesting insects, is considerable, and presents 
forms, in some instances, strange to English eyes. In addition to the bees themselves 
are specimens of their products and of the articles into which they enter, such as 
honey, wax, mead or hydromel, sweetmeats and confectionary. The largest portion 
of the exhibition, however, was occupied by matters connected with the production of 
silk. An admirably arranged collection was shown by M. Jules Rieu, of Valréas, in 
the department of Vaucluse, including the white and yellow cocoons of the Japanese - 
silk-worms, introduced into France in 1863, and extensively bred by M. Rieu; green 
cocoons also from Japan, introduced in the present year; silk spun from these various 
cocoons; models of the frames and other materials used in the silk cultivation; and 
specimens of the insects themselves iu the various stages of their existence. 
M. Guerin-M éneville, M. H. Givelet, and others exhibited numbers of the Bombyx 
Cynthia, and of other worms produced by the crossing of the former with the Bombyx 
arrindia, feeding on the leaves of the Ailanthus, and also several chambers containing 
cocoons and hundreds of enormous moths depositing their eggs. Others show products, 
preparations and sketches of the Bombyx yamamai, a very large green worm that 
feeds on the oak, aad of many other new and curious species. But the Ailanthus 
