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Fulgora, and the cocoon of the pupa was formed of the same 
substance. Prof. Westwood had previously noticed this 
extraordinary insect at the meeting of the British Association 
at Oxford in 1860, under the name of Epipyrops anomala. 
SEPTEMBER 6, 1876, 
J. Jenner Weir, Esq., F.L.S., in the chair. 
Remedies for Altacks of the Harvest-bug.—Mr. Weir men- 
tioned that, on a recent visit to the South Downs, he had 
suffered much annoyance from the attack of the harvest-bug, 
as many as eighty pustules appearing on each foot. Several 
remedies were suggested, especially rubbing the affected 
parts with brandy and water; but Mr. Smith stated that on 
one occasion when he was in the Isle of Wight, and exposed 
to their attacks, he had found that by taking a dose of milk of 
sulphur he was effectually relieved from all annoyance, 
Enemies to Horse-chestnut Shoots.—Professor Westwood 
communicated a note with reference to some shoots of horse- 
chestnut, which he had exhibited at the July meeting of the 
Society, as having been destroyed, apparently by some Lepi- 
dopterous larvze or wood-boring beetles; but he had since 
received from Mr. Stainton some shoots that had been 
forwarded to him by Sir Thomas Moncrieffe, which had 
been destroyed by squirrels in precisely the same manner. 
Sir Thomas had himself seen the squirrels at work splitting 
the shoots with their teeth and extracting the pith. Mr. Smith 
remarked that he had found the common buff-tip moth 
(Pygzra bucephala) very destructive of late to the Spanish 
chestnut, a tree on which the insect is not usually found. 
Creesus septentrionalis Bred.—Mr. Smith exhibited a 
series of sixty specimens of a sawfly (Creesus septentrionalis), 
which he had bred from larve found feeding on young shoots 
of the alder, growing on the banks of the Sid, near Sidmouth, 
South Devon. The specimens of the fly were all bred ina 
single flower-pot, nine inches in diameter. 
Mutilla europea Parasitic on Bombus muscorum.—Mtr. 
Smith also mentioned the fact of Mutilla europea having 
been found parasitic on Bombus muscorum, by Miss M. 
Pasley, in an Orchard at Shedfield Grange, near Wickham, 
Hants. He also remarked on a coincidence somewhat 
remarkable, that on the day previous to his receiving Miss 
Pasley’s communication, Professor Edward Brandt, of St. 
