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Mr. Janson exliibited some Coleoptera, sent from Scotland by Mr. Foxcroft, men- 

 tioning especially Elaler (Diacantbus) impressus, E. lythroptenis, Germar., Pogono- 

 clierus fasoiculatus, Sericosomus brunneus, S. fugax and Dictyopterus Aurora. He 

 likewise exliibited a larva of Aplecta tincla with two excrescences, resembling Cla- 

 varisE, proceeding from the head, and which the captor states were green when the 

 larva was alive. 



Mr. Stevens exhibited a moth (Leucania ?) found covered with a fungoid film ; a 

 fly, found impaled on a point of dry grass ; two living larvge of Notodonla Carmelita, 

 part of the brood hatched from the eggs laid by the female exhibited at the last Meet- 

 ing; and a specimen of the scarce Incurvaria tenuicornis, taken flying at Wickham 

 Wood, in May. 



Mr. Douglas exhibited Drilus flavescens, taken on flowers near Dareuth Wood, 

 June 1st; and seven species of Elachistae reared from the larvae, including the new 

 one from Poa aquatica, for which he had proposed the name of E. Poae. 



Mr. Westwood exhilated some cocoons of the " Eria" silk forwarded from Malta 

 by Dr. Templeton, with a request that he might be informed if any method was known 

 by which the silk could be unwound from these cocoons, in which the silk was agglu- 

 tinated into a solid mass, and hoping, if such a method was not known, some atten- 

 tion would be given to the subject, as, if this difficulty were overcome, there was no 

 doubt this silk would become extensively used. 



The Chairman said that very recently a gentleman, residing near Geneva, had 

 asked his aid to procure some Indian silk cocoons, such as were exhibited by the 

 East India Company at the Great Exhibition of 1851, in order to carry on some ex- 

 periments of unwinding hard cocoons, in which he had hitherto been successful ; and 

 now that, by the extension of the cultivation of this valuable silk by its introduction 

 into Malta (Proceed. 8), the supply would be increased, it was highly desirable that 

 the difficulties of drawing off" the threads should be conquered, and he trusted his 

 correspondent would be successful with this kind also. 



Mr, Boyd exhibited specimens of Elachista Treitschkiella, reared from the 

 curious larvae destitute of true legs, some of which were exhibited by Mr. Douglas 

 at the Meeting of this Society in September last (Proceed. 127). 



Goliath Beetles. 



Mr. Westwood read a Memoir on Goliath beetles, describing several new species, 

 and others of which one sex only was hitherto known. 



