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for colour; 4th class, Edible insects, Crustacea and moUusks; 5tli class, Insects 

 employed for medical use ; 6lli class, Insects used as ornaments. Second division — 

 Destructive insects: — Ten classes, viz. those which attack cereals, the vine, plants 

 Used in industry, forage, vegetables and ornamental plants, fruit trees, forest trees, 

 timber used for building, truffles and fungi, dry organic matters, and, lastly, parasites 

 of man and domestic animals. The third division includes three classes — carnivorous 

 insects, parasitic insects; destructive of chrysalides; and insectivorous animals, birds 

 and reptiles. The fourth division includes — Insects and other creatures destructive of 

 mollusks; and notices respecting edible suails aud the benefit that cultivators may 

 derive from them. Lastly, optical instruments for entomological purposes, and 

 special apjyaratus connected with the rearing or destruction of insects. Printed or 

 •written memoirs are also to be admitted, even without specimens of the insects to 

 which they refer; and it is further announced that conferences will take place in the 

 exhibitiou on various subjects connected with " insectology" [? Entomology]. 



Mr. M'Lachlan exhibited the larva of a caddis-fly found by Mr. Fletcher, of 

 Worcester, crawling about tlie bark of willow trees: the case was like a Coleophora, 

 but the feet of the larva showed it to be Trichopterous, not Lepidoplerous. Enoecyla 

 [Enoicyla] pusilla, a species of which the female was apterous, had for some time 

 been known on the Continent to have a non-aquatic larva, and M. Snellen van Vollen- 

 hoveu found the larvae in great numbers at the Hague: this species had not yet been 

 found in Britain, but Mr. Elelcher's larvae we^e probably to be referred to it. It 

 would be interesting to ascertain how the larva breathed, whether or not by spiracles. 



iMr. J. Jenner Weir called attention to the Report, in the 'Journal of Horti- 

 culture' for May 21, 1868, of the Proceedings of the Scientific Committee of the 

 Royal Horticultural Society, in which it was stated that on the 19th of that month 

 " Mr. Berkeley exhibited specimens of the larva of Coleophora henierobiella, which 

 attacks the leaves of the pear and cherry, not as is usually the case by eating away the 

 whole substance, but by attaching themselves by their discoid suctorial mouth, and 

 extracting the sap from the parenchyma for some distance round the point of attack; 

 which when they have exhausted they leave, and commence an attack in another part of 

 the leaf, leaving a small hole similar to a leech bite. Finally they enclose themselves 

 in the leaf, which is rolled up into the form of a liny cigarette." Mr. Weir presumed 

 that no one of the entomologists attached to the Scientific Committee could have been 

 present at the promulgation of a statement so full of error. 



Mr. Keays exhibited specimens of Psyche crassiorella from Hornsey Wood. 



The Hon. T. De Grey exhibited pupa? of Hypercallia Christierninana; the larvae 

 were found on Polygala vulgaris between the 27ih of April and the 22nd of May, near 

 Shoreham, and one became a pupa during the Meeting. The pups were of a 

 beautiful bright green colour, attached by their hind extremity only to the sides of the 

 glass cylinder in which they were exhibited, and were not suspended loosely by the 

 silken attachment, but rigidly fixed in an oblique position at an angle of about 

 60'' to the side of the cylinder. 



Mr. A. G. Butler (who was present as a visitor) exhibited a small and pale variety 

 of Nemeobius Lucina, and a pair of Anthouharis Cardamines, all from Heme Bav. 

 Both sexes of A. Cardamines were remarkable for the largeness of the black spot on 

 the disk of the fore wings, and the male had a rudimentary tail to the hind wings. 



