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year, and which came from the province of Cheetiang, in the North of China, where 

 the fine kind of silk called " Tsatlee " is produced by the caterpillars of this species. 

 The moth, a Bombyx, apparently differed from the common B. Mori ; the caterpillar, 

 however, fed on mulberry-leaves. 



The President also exhibited three specimens of a Nepticula, probably N. centifo- 

 liella, reared from leaves of a rose-tree. The larvae, which apparently were without 

 legs, mined the leaves in a tortuous manner, and when full-fed came out of the recep- 

 tacle they had formed, and made flat, boat-shaped cocoons, each being placed between 

 the foot-stalk and the bract of a leaf. 



Mr. Spence sent for exhibition the eggs of some insect beautifully arranged round 

 the foliage of a species of Coniferae. 



Mr. Grant exhibited a specimen of Gelechia Brizella, a new British species taken 

 by him at Southend, in July. He also exhibited Peronea permutana, Gelechia pic- 

 tella and Agrotis valligera, all taken by smoking bushes on Barnes Common, Surrey ; 

 a new and inland locality for these hitherto maritime species •. and from the same 

 place, smoked out of broom, Depressaria atomella. 



Mr. Smith exhibited six specimens of a species of Pteromalus, reared from larvae 

 found in pods of furze with Oxystoma Ulicis, on which he had no doubt they were 

 parasitic. He considered them identical with the example mentioned at the March 

 meeting, when the President had stated his belief that it was a parasite upon Oxy- 

 stoma. 



Mr. Smith also exhibited a new British bee, Bombus arcticus, Dahlbom, taken by 

 Mr. A. White, in August, at Lerwick, where it was not uncommon in the gardens of 

 Mr. J. A. White, Union Bank, and Mr. Bruce, Sand Lodge. 



Mr. Smith exhibited two living specimens of Lamia textor, female, taken by Mr. 

 Jacques, near Bristol. 



Mr. Douglas exhibited leaves of laburnum, showing how larvae of Cemiostoma 

 Laburnella had fed between the cuticles, and when full grown had left their habita- 

 tions and made their cocoons on the under side of the leaves. Also, a specimen of 

 Mecinus collaris, the new British Curculio discovered by Mr. S. Stevens at Graves- 

 end, at which place, in June, Mr. Douglas had gathered some flower-stems of Plantago 

 maritima, in which the larvae of this beetle fed, causing a large swelling immediately 

 below the flower, and from one of these the example now exhibited was produced. He 

 also exhibited specimens of Depressaria atomella, reared from broom, Gracilaria Ono- 

 nidis, Dicrorampha acuminatana, Z. (caliginosana, Guen., Doub., non Tr.), and an 

 apparently new species of Stigmonota, all taken at Headley Lane, August 10. 



Mr. Stainton exhibited a minute pupa-case, probably of a Nepticula, on oak. It 

 exactly resembled a caraway-seed, and was fastened to a twig by some exceedingly 

 fine filaments of silk. 



Mr. Spence communicated the following extract of a letter from his son, K. H. 

 Spence, Esq., dated Cold Springs, near Baltimore. 



" As Dr. Smith predicted, the Cicadae [C. septemdeciin] came out of the ground 

 from May 25th to June 5th, in swarms, the ground being actually riddled with the 

 holes from which the pupae emerged. Every tree, and shrub, and fence, and stick, 

 and stone, in fact, everything, was covered with them. I have counted a hundred on 

 a small peach-tree planted last year. Their habits, in one respect, are different from 

 those of other Cicadae, as they are excessively slow and lazy, and will allow themselves 

 to be caught without the least attempt to get away. The black locust, as they call it 



