66 Entomological Society. 
He has obtained some very curious spiders, and which he pa ype must 
be separated from genera as yet published. 
The letter was accompanied by a list privately printed by Dr. 
‘Fempleton, containing descriptions of the species of Thysanura,. 
Myriapoda, Scorpionide, Cheliferide and Phrynide, which the author 
had discovered in Ceylon, with the following notes on the habits of 
_ Phrynus lunatus, Pallas :— 
- Very common in chinks in old walls of dwelling-houses and 
dark outhouses. The usual movements of this curious animal are 
slow and prowling, and indifferently in all directions like a crab; if 
it be however disturbed it runs with amazing velocity, vastly quicker 
than the cockroaches, upon the young of which it usually preys : 
it seizes them by the head and legs with the claws of the pedipalpi — 
with a sudden snap, and thrusts its head into the soft parts beneath 
the anal plate so as to suck the juices, the maxillary palpi being 
pressed alternately on the dorsal surface with a clawing movement, 
in its attenipts to force its mandibles more deeply in: it however 
sometimes devours the coriaceous parts of the insect, as I found by 
placing one with it in a tumbler; during the night the femora and 
all the juicy parts of its prey had disappeared. I have never found 
cast-off skins. When irritated with the handle of a brush, the snapping 
blow it makes with the pedipalpi is singularly violent and startling.” 
In reference to which Mr. Hope stated, that Signor Costa had 
informed him that the bite of the Scolopendra;, in the island of Ischia, 
was to a certain extent venomous, the pain lasting for seven or eight 
days, and being considerable;. ammonia. was the usual remedy. 
Captain Parry also stated that the same effects were produced by the 
bite of the Scolopendra in Portugal. 
Mr. Westwood mentioned that he had recently observed the 
excessive fondness of wasps for honey--dew upon whitethorns in the 
spring; and that it was thence advisable to watch situations in which 
Aphides abounded at that time, in order to destroy the queen wasps 
attracted to such spots. He also stated that he had noticed an oak- — 
tree in Staffordshire far more backward in its foliage than the neigh- 
bouring trees, but which was entirely covered with galls, the latter 
being produced by the Cynipide, which had particularly selected this 
tree from its ill state of health, as proved by its backward foliage. 
August 5th.—G. Newport, Esq., President, in the Chair. 
Mr. Evans exhibited a lanthorn adapted with lenses, nearly similar 
to a magic lanthorn, which he had found of great service in delinea- 
ting the veins of the wings of Neuropterous insects, the figures being 
received upon tracing-paper gummed upon a square of glass, and 
held at any distance from the machine according to the size required. 
Mr. F. Bond exhibited a specimen of Deilephila Galit taken at 
Harrow in July; also specimens of Polyommatus lrion taken at 
Barnewall Wold in Northamptonshire during the latter half of July. 
Mr. S. Stevens exhibited a box of Lepidoptera recently taken in 
Black Park near Buckingham, containing the following rare insects : 
Limenitis Camilla, Psilura monacha, Mythimna turca, Polia herbida 
and bimaculosa, Graphiphora brunnea, festiva, rhomboidea (tristigma) 
and triangulum, Hadena saponaria and oblonga, Rusina ferruginea, 
