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and reptiles. Tbe fourth division ineludes-Insects and other creatures destructive of 

 mollusks ; and notices respecting edible snails and the benefit that cultivators may 

 derive from them. Lastly, optical instruments for entomological purposes, and 

 special apparatus connected with the rearing or destruction of insects. Printed or 

 written memoirs are also to be admitted, even without specimens of tbe insects to 

 which they refer; and it is further announced that conferences will take place in the 

 exhibition on various subjects connected with " insectology" [? Entomology]. 



Mr. M'Lachlan exhibited the larva of a caddis-fly found by Mr. Fletcher of 

 Worcester, crawling about the bark of willow trees: the case was like a Coleophora 

 but the feet of the larva showed it to be Trichopterous, not Lepidopterous. Encecyla 

 [Enoicyla] pus.lla, a species of which the female was apterous, had for some time 

 been known on the Continent to have a non-aquatic larva, and M. Snellen van Vollen- 

 hoven found the larva? in great numbers at the Hague: this species had not yet been 

 found in Britain, but Mr. Fletcher's larva? were probably to be referred to it It 

 would be interesting to ascertain how the larva breathed, whether or not bv 

 spiracles. J 



Mr. J. Jenner Weir called attention to the Report, in the 'Journal of Horti- 

 culture' for May 21, 1868, of the Proceedings of the Scientific Committee of the 

 Koyal Horticultural Society, in which it was stated that on the 19th of that month 

 " Mr. Berkeley exhibited specimens of the larva of Coleophora hemerobiella, which 

 attacks the leaves of the pear and cherry, not as is usually the case by eating away the 

 whole substance, but by attaching themselves by their discoid suctorial mouth and 

 extracting the sap from the parenchyma for some distance round the point of attack- 

 wh.ch when they have exhausted they leave, and commence an attack in another part of 

 the leaf, leaving a small hole similar to a leech bite. Finally they enclose themselves 

 in the leaf, which is rolled up into the form of a tiny cigarette." Mr. Weir presumed 

 that no one of the entomologists attached to the Scientific Committee could have been 

 present at the promulgation of a statement so full of error. 



Mr. Keays exhibited specimens of Psyche crassiorella from Hornsey Wood. 

 The Hon.T. De Grey exhibited pupa? of Hypercallia Christiernana; the larva? 

 were found on Polygala vulgaris between the 27ih of April and the 22nd of May near 

 Sboreham, and one became a pupa during the Meeting. The pupa? were 'of a 

 beautiful bright green colour, attached by their hind extremity only to the sides of the 

 glass cylinder in which they were exhibited, and were not suspended loosely by the 

 silken attachment, but rigidly fixed in an oblique position at an angle of about 

 60* to the side of the cylinder. 



Mr. A. G. Butler (who was present as a visitor) exhibited a small and pale variety 

 of Nemeobius Lucina, and a pair of Anthouharis Cardamines, all from Heine Bar 

 Both sexes of A. Cardamines were remarkable for the largeness of the black spot on 

 tbe disk of the fore wings, and the male had a rudimentary tail to the hiud wings. 



Mr. Burmeister, jun. (who was present as a visitor), exhibited numerous drawings 

 of larva? of Braz.lian butterflies, and pupa-skins of many of them. Amongst the latter 

 was Ageroma Amphinome, remarkable for its pair of foliate appendages to the head 

 which, however, did not contain the antenna? of the butterfly : this pupa was not dis- 

 tinguishable from other Nymphalida?, and showed that the old authors who described 

 it as having a belt of silk round the middle were mistaken. 



