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against which a plain sheet of glass was pressed by clips; 
this was quite air-tight, but cumbrous, and not suited for a 
sliding drawer. It has since struck me that a very simple 
drawer might be made with an India-rubber band fastened all 
round the edge,—as in the tin tops made for jam-pots, which 
would fold over the glass and make an air-tight junction. I 
shall be much obliged for any suggestions.—W. C. Marshall ; 
8, Spa Buildings, Cheltenham, August 22, 1874. 
[Practically | know nothing of the wood shrinking. I have 
three cabinets, aged respectively forty, thirty, and twenty 
years; neither has begun to shrink. If you pay a proper 
price (twenty-one shillings per drawer,—they cannot be made 
under), cabinets, I believe, never shrink. I do not write thus 
to exclude suggestions, but to inform beginners who may wish 
to avail themselves of my experience.— EH. Newman. | 
Extracts from the Proceedings of the Entomological Society 
of London, July 6th, 1874. 
Sir Sydney Smith Saunders, C.M.G., President, in the 
chair. 
Haltica erata—Walnut eaten by a Lepidopterous larva. 
—Professor Westwood exhibited specimens of Haltica 
(Batophila) zrata, which he had found to be very injurious to 
young rose-leaves. Also a portion of a walnut attacked by a 
Lepidopterous larva, probably a Tortrix, but he was unable 
to name the species, as it produced only.an Ichneumon. It 
was the first instance he had known of a walnut being 
attacked by any insect in this country. Mr. M‘Lachlan 
suggested that the larva might be that of Carpocapsa 
splendana, a species which usually feeds on acorns; and 
Mr. Moore stated that he had bred that species from a 
walnut. 
Yucca Moth.—Professor Westwood made some remarks on 
the Yucca Moth (Pronuba Yuccasella, Riley), of which some 
fifty specimens had been sent to him, in the pupa state, by 
Mr. Riley; but he had only succeeded in rearing three of 
them. He exhibited a drawing of a portion of the insect, 
showing the peculiar form of the palpi, which were specially 
adapted for collecting the pollen, which it transferred to the 
