﻿seven 
  successive 
  years 
  he 
  Lad 
  bred 
  Ochina 
  Ptinoides 
  from 
  a 
  piece 
  of 
  dry 
  ivy-stem 
  in 
  

   his 
  possession. 
  

  

  The 
  President 
  directed 
  attention 
  to 
  the 
  insects 
  presented 
  by 
  Mr. 
  J. 
  C. 
  Bowring, 
  

   especially 
  to 
  the 
  extraordinary 
  parasite 
  upon 
  Fulgora 
  candelaria, 
  which 
  was 
  undoubt- 
  

   edly 
  Lepidopterous, 
  resembling 
  a 
  Bombyx 
  or 
  Orgyia, 
  and 
  for 
  which 
  Mr. 
  Bowring 
  pro- 
  

   posed 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  Epipyrops 
  anomala. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  White 
  alluded 
  to 
  a 
  collection 
  of 
  insects 
  sent 
  from 
  China 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Fortune, 
  in 
  

   which 
  he 
  had 
  seen 
  Dicranocephalus 
  Wallichii, 
  hitherto 
  reputed 
  to 
  have 
  been 
  found 
  in 
  

   Nepaul. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Curtis 
  read 
  a 
  paper 
  on 
  a 
  method 
  of 
  removing 
  mouldiness 
  from 
  preserved 
  in- 
  

   sects, 
  by 
  means 
  of 
  the 
  vapour 
  of 
  boiling 
  alcohol, 
  applied 
  by 
  an 
  apparatus 
  which 
  he 
  

   described, 
  to 
  a 
  whole 
  drawer-full 
  at 
  a 
  time, 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  course 
  of 
  a 
  few 
  minutes 
  not 
  a 
  

   trace 
  of 
  mould 
  would 
  remain, 
  and 
  not 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  insects 
  required 
  to 
  be 
  touched 
  or 
  

   removed. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Desvignes 
  remarked 
  that 
  he 
  had 
  operated 
  on 
  some 
  mouldy 
  insects 
  with 
  naph- 
  

   tha 
  in 
  which 
  a 
  small 
  portion 
  of 
  corrosive 
  sublimate 
  was 
  dissolved 
  ; 
  but 
  although 
  an 
  

   effectual 
  method, 
  it 
  occupied 
  a 
  long 
  time 
  to 
  wash 
  each 
  insect. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  White, 
  with 
  reference 
  to 
  methods 
  of 
  preserving 
  insects, 
  said 
  that 
  the 
  Italians 
  

   had 
  a 
  mode 
  of 
  preserving 
  Crustacea 
  so 
  that 
  the 
  joints 
  remained 
  flexible 
  ; 
  some 
  speci- 
  

   mens 
  in 
  the 
  British 
  Museum, 
  received 
  from 
  Madame 
  Power, 
  had 
  been 
  thus 
  pliant 
  for 
  

   years. 
  The 
  means 
  by 
  which 
  this 
  was 
  accomplished 
  were 
  not 
  known. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Douglas 
  read 
  the 
  following 
  translation 
  from 
  the 
  Stettin 
  ' 
  Entomologische 
  

   Zeitung,' 
  premising 
  that 
  it 
  referred 
  to 
  an 
  insect, 
  still 
  one 
  of 
  our 
  rarest 
  Lepidoptera, 
  

   and 
  trusting 
  it 
  might 
  be 
  the 
  means 
  of 
  many 
  specimens 
  being 
  captured. 
  

  

  " 
  The 
  Larva 
  of 
  Phorodesma 
  smaragdaria, 
  (Esper). 
  By 
  G. 
  Koch, 
  senr., 
  Frankfort- 
  

   on-the-Maine. 
  

  

  " 
  Hitherto 
  this 
  larva 
  and 
  its 
  natural 
  history 
  have 
  been 
  entirely 
  unknown 
  ;* 
  neither 
  

   Ochsenheimer, 
  Treitschke, 
  nor 
  any 
  other 
  author 
  has 
  given 
  any 
  account 
  of 
  it 
  ; 
  if 
  they 
  

   had, 
  the 
  perfect 
  insect 
  would 
  probably 
  not 
  be 
  such 
  a 
  rarity. 
  The 
  moth 
  flies 
  in 
  woods 
  

   late 
  in 
  the 
  evening, 
  on 
  which 
  account 
  it 
  is 
  seldom 
  taken 
  ; 
  and 
  the 
  larvse 
  are 
  so 
  decep- 
  

   tive 
  to 
  the 
  eye, 
  that 
  they 
  have 
  hitherto 
  eluded 
  all 
  search 
  for 
  them. 
  The 
  merit 
  of 
  solv- 
  

   ing 
  the 
  riddle 
  belongs 
  to 
  Herr 
  Verwalter 
  Muhlig, 
  who 
  succeeded 
  in 
  finding 
  an 
  im- 
  

   pregnated 
  female, 
  which 
  laid 
  eggs, 
  by 
  which 
  circumstance 
  we 
  were 
  put 
  upon 
  the 
  search, 
  

   and 
  now 
  we 
  find 
  the 
  species 
  not 
  uncommonly 
  in 
  our 
  town 
  woods. 
  I 
  give 
  the 
  follow- 
  

   ing 
  account 
  with 
  this 
  remark, 
  that 
  although 
  it 
  is 
  made 
  exactly 
  after 
  nature, 
  everytliing 
  

   is 
  not 
  to 
  be 
  found 
  therein 
  which 
  may 
  be 
  observed 
  with 
  a 
  lens 
  in 
  these 
  most 
  remarkable 
  

   larvae. 
  Besides, 
  the 
  matter 
  is 
  sufficiently 
  interesting 
  to 
  render 
  it 
  desirable 
  to 
  be 
  ac- 
  

   quainted 
  with 
  the 
  details 
  of 
  the 
  natural 
  history 
  of 
  these 
  larvae, 
  otherwise 
  than 
  in 
  frag- 
  

   ments, 
  as 
  at 
  present, 
  and 
  to 
  learn 
  some 
  particulars 
  about 
  their 
  early 
  states. 
  

  

  " 
  As 
  soon 
  as 
  the 
  larva 
  leaves 
  the 
  egg, 
  it 
  loads 
  its 
  body 
  with 
  finely 
  bitten 
  pieces 
  of 
  

   stems 
  of 
  plants, 
  scales 
  of 
  flowers, 
  hard, 
  dry, 
  seed-capsules, 
  and 
  other 
  small 
  vegetable 
  

   fragments, 
  which 
  it 
  binds 
  together 
  strongly, 
  although 
  loosely, 
  and 
  in 
  layers, 
  and 
  forms 
  

   into 
  a 
  mass 
  full 
  of 
  points 
  and 
  projections 
  (requiring 
  much 
  trouble 
  to 
  pull 
  to 
  pieces 
  with 
  

   pincers), 
  the 
  whole 
  of 
  which 
  it 
  carries 
  about 
  with 
  it, 
  like 
  the 
  allied 
  larva 
  of 
  Phorodesma 
  

  

  *Freycr 
  has 
  figured 
  it, 
  vol. 
  i. 
  tab. 
  174.—/. 
  W. 
  D. 
  

  

  