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Dover, in July. The following were the most remarkable species : — Plusia Orichal- 

 cea, Spaelolis Cataleuca, Odontia dentalis, Emmelesia bifasciata, Stigmonota Leplas- 

 triana, Semasia rufillana, Depressaria nanatella, Gelechia bifractella, G. neuropterella, 

 Ypsolopbus Durdhainellus and Adela volella : also a Vanessa Antiopa, and pale vari- 

 eties of Satvrus Janira and S. Semele, taken in the same locality in September. 



Mr. S. Stevens exhibited a Vanessa Antiopa, taken on the 24th of September at 

 Hampstead. 



Mr. Bond mentioned that he saw a Vanessa Antiopa flying in Cambridgeshire last 

 month. 



Mr. Hunter brought a number of Mononychus Pseudacori for distribution : he took 

 them feeding on the seeds of Iris fcetidissima, in the Isle of Wight. 



Mr. Hunter mentioned that Mr. Winchester, one of Her Majesty's gardeners at 

 Cowes, had discovered a new method of using sugar as a bait for Noctuae, by dipping 

 pieces of coarse cloth in the solution, and spreading or hanging them on bushes, &c. ; 

 this was found especially convenient in places on the coast where there were no trees 

 on which to place the mixture, and there was a great saving of sugar, for one prepara- 

 tion of the cloth would be effectual for a week, if the pieces were removed every night. 

 Mr. Winchester had tried putrid soap-suds, after the manner mentioned at the June 

 meeting of this Society, with some effect, but they did not seem more attractive than 

 sugar. 



Mr. Douglas exhibited specimens of Elachista testaceella, bred from larva? found 

 on Sison Amomum at Lewisham, observing that the larva, its food, and metamorpho- 

 ses had been figured and described by De Geer about a century ago ; and it was the 

 discovery of this by Mr. Stainton that had led to its present detection. He also exhi- 

 bited Rceslerstammia pygmseana, bred from larvae mining in the leaves of Solanum 

 Dulcamara, and a living larva in situ. 



Mr. Shepherd said he had found the same kind of larvae in the leaves of Atropa 

 Belladonna. 



Mr. Douglas read a paper " On the Identification of the Species of Micro-Lepido- 

 ptera whose Larvae mine in Leaves, described and figured in the ' Memoires' of De 

 Geer and Reaumur," illustrated by living examples in the leaves of various plants. 

 He also read, from Chambers' ' Edinburgh Journal,' the following account of the ha- 

 bits and manner of capturing the " Groo-groo " worm of the West Indies, now stated 

 to be the larva of a Prionus, but mentioned by the Rev. F. W. Hope, in his paper on 

 " Insects used as the Food of Man " (Trans. Eat. Soc. iii. 234), under the name of 

 Calandra Palm arum. 



" Among the variety of curious insects which are common to tropical climates, 

 the groogroo worms of the West Indies may be considered particularly interesting. 

 From the peculiar manner in which they are produced, and from the circumstance 

 of their constituting a choice article of food for man, they become entitled to some 

 attention. 



" The groogroo worm — so called because it is found in a species of palm vulgarly 

 called the groogroo — is the larva of a large-sized beetle, the Prionus, which is peculiar 

 to the warm latitudes of America. With the exception of a slight similarity about 

 the region of the head, the worm bears no resemblance to the parent beetle. When 

 full-grown, it is about 3£ inches in length, having the body large and turgid, and in- 

 creasing in circumference from the head towards the opposite extremity. The head 

 is of a corneous, opaque substance. It has neither eyes nor the rudiments of the 



