460 The Zoologist — October, 1866. 



The following additions by purchase were also announced : — ' Revue Zoologique,' 

 11 vols.; Laporte & Gnry, ' Histoire Naturelie et Iconographie des Insectes Cnle- 

 opteres,' 4 vols.; J. Thomson, ' Essai d'une Classification de la Famille des Ceram- 

 bycides;' J. Thomson, ' Syslema Cerambycidaruin ;' Trimen, ' Rhoi)alocera AlriciE 

 Australis,' Pari 2. 



Election of Member. 



M. A. Depuiset, of No. 17, Rue des Saints Peres, Paris, was ballotted for and 

 elected a Foreign Member. 



Exhibilio)is, ^-e. 



Mr. Bond exhibited a male specimen of Bombyx Cynthia which measured 

 6J inches in expanse of winjis: those reared by Dr. Wallace at Colchester, during the 

 present year, varied from 3 — 6J inches; they also showed some variations in the 

 quantity of white hair or down upon their bodies, some having small tufts only of that 

 colour, others having bauds, whilst in a few specimens almost the entire surface was 

 white. 



The Secretary had been requested by Dr. Wallace to say that during September 

 his Ailantheiy would be worth looking at, and he would be very glad to show it if a 

 day's previous notice were given him. The season had been very nnfiivourable ; long 

 continued rain and wind made great havoc, and a severe hail-storm which bappeued 

 early in August riddled the Ailantbus leaves, and knocked down the worn)s, of which 

 many were killed. Nevertheless there would be a crop ; his first cocoons were begun 

 on the 18th cif August ; and he had a second smaller supply of younger larvje to supply 

 the vacancies caused by the previous inclemency of the weather. 



Mr. S. Stevens had recently visited Lady Dorothy Nevill's Ailanthery, where also 

 many larvae bad been bbnvn off the trees by the wind, and it was necessary to employ 

 a man or boy to replace them on the leaves. Birds, however, were seldom found to 

 attack the larv*. 



Prol. Westwood said that wasps carried off the newly-hatched larvte. He might 

 mention aUu that a correspondent of his had had a few larvse in-doors, but two of them 

 escaped ; after a lime both were found upou the single Ailaiilhus which was growing 

 in the garden. 



Mr. Pasuoe directed attentiun to an account given by Mr. Consul Meadows, and 

 published in a recent number of ' The Times,' of a Chinese silk-worm, the pupa of which 

 was used as an article of food. 



Prof. Brayley communicated the following extract from the Report of Mr. Vice- 

 Consol Lay on the Trade of the Port of Che-fio in Northern China, recently preseuted 

 to Parliament : — 



" Amongst the articles that can be exported from Che-Coo, there is brown silk pro- 

 duced from the wild silkworms that swarm in the mountaiu forests, and the quantity 

 of this article that could be brought into the market, if prices suited, may be computed 

 at not less than 12,000 bales a-jear. This silk is of different qualities, according to 

 the process and care adopted in reeling it from the cocoons, and some of it is well 

 adapted lor maiiulactures. The natives weave plain silk goods from it called ' pongees,' 

 and about 100,000 pieces of these stuffs could be bought annually." 



Mr. A. F. Shejipard exhibited a box of Lepidoplera, all bred or captured in the 



