80 MR. A . THOSISON's REPORT ON THE rNSECT-HOUSE. [Feb. 1 5, 



and therefore it would not touch the ground, but immediately on 

 birth could be at once transferred to the pouch " '. 



Mr. Arthur Thomson, the Society's Head Keeper, laid on the 

 table a series of specimens of various Insects reared and exhibited 

 in the Insect-house in the Society's Gardens during the past year 

 and read the following report on the subject : — 



Report on the Itisect-house for 1897. 



Examples of the following species of Insects have been exhibited 

 in the Insect-house during the past season : — 



Sillc-producing Bomhyces and their Allies. 

 Asiatic. 



^ Cf. Pinkert, E., " Beobachtungen bei der Geburt eines KJinguruh, Macropus 

 rufvs," Zool. Gart. xxs. p. 8.5.— Ed. 



