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cially of a species of Cyclopsina, which Dr. Baird thinks may prove to he the type of 

 a new genus. He exhibited an unpuhlished plate of Crustacea and Insects, which 

 will shortly appear in Mr. MacGillivray's 'Voyage of H. M. S. Rattlesnake.' He also 

 exhibited a portrait of J ales -Cesar Savigny, Member of the Academy of Sciences, and 

 one of the savans employed during the French expedition to Egypt and Syria ; and 

 gave a short account of his valuable labours and published works. 



Mr. Spence submitted a letter, addressed to him by Mr. T. Thompson, of Hull, 

 inquiring the name of an insect, the larvae of which were doing considerable damage 

 to the corks in wine-bottles in the cellar of a wine-merchant in that town ; and also 

 what means could be adopted to stay their ravages. A specimen of the eaten corks 

 was also sent, but the larvae had escaped. 



Mr. J. F. Stephens said that on a former occasion some perforated corks were for- 

 warded to the Society, from which he had reared Gracillaria Vau-flava, Haw., and the 

 larvae certainly fed on the cork ; so that it was probable the damage in the present in- 

 stance was caused by that species. 



Mr. Bedell observed that the moth was frequent in vaults in the London Docks 

 and other places. Other members concurred in the opinion that the larvae were im- 

 ported in the cork, and that the only cure for the damage they caused was to recork 

 the bottles. 



Mr. Douglas exhibited specimens of a moth, a species of Ephestia, which appeared 

 to be undescribed, and which he proposed to call E. Ficella, from its having been 

 reared (by Mr. Doubleday) from larvae which fed on dried Turkey figs. The specimens 

 exhibited were lately found in the bonded warehouse at Botolph Wharf, where great 

 quantities of figs were deposited. 



Mr. Douglas also exhibited specimens of Gelechia costella, reared from larvae found 

 on Solanum Dulcamara, on which they feed variously ; some mining the leaves, some 

 fastening two or more leaves together and feeding between them, some eating the 

 seeds, and others boring into the stems. He observed that the larvae of another spe- 

 cies of Gelechia — G. contigua, Haw. (tricolorella, Haw. ? St.), closely allied to G. cos- 

 tella, fed on the young shoots and leaves of Stellaiia holostea, and the larvae of another 

 species, G. blandella, fed in the capsules of the same plant. These discoveries, all 

 made by Mr. Stainton, were not only interesting in themselves, but showed that in 

 some instances, much stress could not be put upon the manner of feeding of larvae, 

 as a guide to generic association, for there could be no doubt of the close relationship 

 of these three species, notwithstanding the habits of their larvae were so different. 



Mr. Ingpen exhibited, mounted as objects for the microscope, young Coccidae 

 found on leaves of maple : they probably belonged to the genus Cyanops. 



Mr. W. W. Saunders mentioned that an instance had lately come under his notice, 

 in which some ornaments formed of maccaroni, and worked into fancy baskets, had 

 been totally destroyed by Anobium paniceum. 



Mr. Saunders also stated, that over a large extent of garden-ground on the south 

 side of London, French beans had been freely attacked by a red-brown Acarus, caus- 

 ing the formation of yellowish spots on the leaves, and killing the plants in about ten 

 days. On looking at some plants that had been cast aside for a few days, he found 

 them covered with a fine delicate web. 



The President exhibited a specimen of the rare beetle, Leptinus testaceus, taken 

 some years since at Box Hill, by Mr. Janson ; and stated that at a future time he 

 should have some observations to offer on this and other species of blind insects. 



