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dered what food the young spiders could find to live upon, unless 

 something had been provided for them by their parent in the cocoons. 

 On looking into Mr. Blackwall's ' Catalogue ' I found no mention of 

 the time at which the young spiders usually appear ; neither is there 

 any information on the subject in Walckenaer ; but on referring to 

 Martin Lister's ' Tractatus de Araneis,' published in 1678,1 found 

 my observation fully confirmed. He says that he kept the eggs of 

 this spider (described under titulus xviii.) in a box all the winter, for 

 the purpose of watching them, and found that the young spiders 

 emerged from the eggs in February, and continued to live without 

 alteration and without any food until the middle of April, when he 

 allowed them to escape. 



R. H. Meade. 



Bradford, June 21, 1860. 



Proceedings of Societies. 

 Entomological Society. 

 ivly 2, I860. — J. W. Douglas, Esq., President, in the chair. 

 Donatio7is. 



The following donations were announced, and lhanl<s ordered to be presented to 

 the donors: — 'Journal of the Proceedings of the Linuean Society,' vol. v. No. 17 ; 

 presented by the Society. 'The Zoologist' for July ; by the Editor. ' The Athe- 

 naeum ' for May ; by the Editor. 



Election of a Subscriber. 



C. Miller, Esq., 17, Silurian Terrace, Dalston, was balloted for, and elected a Sub- 

 scriber to the Society. 



Exhibitions. 



Mr. Stevens exhibited a portion of a collection of drawings of European Lepi- 

 doptera, in which the wings were formed by transferring the scales from the wings of 

 the insects by a process not ascertained, the bodies and limbs being afterwards beauti- 

 fully drawn in water-colours. Mr. Stevens stated that the entire collection was con- 

 tained in seven portfolios, and comprised nearly the whole of the European Micro- 

 Lepidoplera ; it had been formed in Germany, by the labour of a lifetime, and now 

 sent to England to be disposed of at a very moderate price. 



The specimens exhibited were much admired by the Members present, some of 

 whom stated they nad tried various modes of transferring the scales of Lepidopiera to 

 paper, but with very unsatisfactory results. 



Mr. Janson exhibited the following Coleoptera, talcen at Rannoch by Mr. C. 

 Turner, viz., Otioihynchus septentrionis, Herbst, Scolyiiis Ratzeburgii, Janson, Mag- 

 daliuus carbonarius, Fab., Rhagonycha paludosa, Fallen. 



