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Mr. Wilkinson exhibited larva-cases of a Talaeporia (T. Ferchaultella, Stephens t 

 Zool. App. cix.), found in July, from which females had been produced, which laid 

 fertile eggs without male intercourse. The larvae that had been hatched were also in 

 the box. 



Mr. White exhibited some specimens of Crustacea, including Idotea Bamni, Acan- 

 thonotus hystrix, Amphithoe Edwardsi, Nymphon (new species), &c, collected by 

 Charles Ede, Esq, Assistant-Surgeon to H. M. S. Assistance, lately returned from the 

 Arctic regions. He exhibited some drawings by Mr. Ede, of minute Crustacea, espe- 

 cially of a species of Cyclopsina, which Dr. Baird thinks may prove to be the type of 

 a new genus. He exhibited an unpublished plate of Crustacea and Insects, which 

 will shortly appear in Mr. MacGillivray's 'Voyage of H. M. S. Rattlesnake.' He also 

 exhibited a portrait of Jules-Cesar Savigny, Member of the Academy of Sciences, and 

 one of the savans employed during the French expedition to Egypt and Syria ; and 

 gave a short account of his valuable labours and published works. 



Mr. Spence submitted a letter, addressed to him by Mr. T. Thompson, of Hull, 

 inquiring the name of an insect, the larvae of which were doing considerable damage 

 to the corks in wine-bottles in the cellar of a wine-merchant in that town ; and also 

 what means could be adopted to stay their ravages. A specimen of the eaten corks 

 was also sent, but the larvae had escaped. 



Mr. J. F. Stephens said that on a former occasion some perforated corks were for- 

 warded to the Society, from which he had reared Gracillaria Vau-ilava, Haw., and the 

 larvae certainly fed on the cork ; so that it was probable the damage in the present in- 

 stance was caused by that species. 



Mr. Bedell observed that the moth was frequent in vaults in the London Docks 

 and other places. Other members concurred in the opinion that the larvae were im- 

 ported in the cork, and that the only cure for the damage they caused was to recork 

 the bottles. 



Mr. Douglas exhibited specimens of a moth, a species of Ephestia, which appeared 

 to be uudescribed, and which he proposed to call E. Ficella, from its having been 

 reared (by Mr. Doubleday) from larvae which fed on dried Turkey figs. The specimens 

 exhibited were lately found in the bonded warehouse at Botolph Wharf, where great 

 quantities of figs were deposited. 



Mr. Douglas also exhibited specimens of Gelechia costella, reared from larvae found 

 on Solanum Dulcamara, on which they feed variously ; some mining the leaves, some 

 fastening two or more leaves together and feeding between them, some eating the 

 seeds, and others boring into the stems. He observed that the larvae of another spe- 

 cies of Gelechia — G. contigua, Haw. (tricolorella, Haw.? St.), closely allied to G. cos- 

 tella, fed on the young shoots and leaves of Stellaria holostea, and the larvae of another 

 species, G. blandella, fed in the capsules of the same plant. These discoveries, all 

 made by Mr. Stainton, were not only interesting in themselves, but showed that in 

 some instances, much stress could not be put upon the manner of feeding of larvae, 

 as a guide to generic association, for there could be no doubt of the close relationship 

 of these three species, notwithstanding the habits of their larvae were so different. 



Mr. Ingpen exhibited, mounted as objects for the microscope, young Coccidae 

 found on leaves of maple : they probably belonged to the genus Cyanops. 



Mr. W. W. Saunders mentioned that an instance had lately come under his notice, 

 in which some ornaments formed of maccaroni, and worked into fancy baskets, had 

 been totally destroyed by Anobium paniceum. 



