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the moths makings their escape to the open air. Children might also easily be trained 

 to watch for and destroy the females when they make their appearance. They, how- 

 ever, rapidly ascend the trees so that much vigilance is required. It had been asked 

 whether it would not be advisable to destroy the apple trees in order to save the goose- 

 berry and currant trees beneath, but this appeared a proceeding very doubtful of suc- 

 cess, as the insects certainly first attacked the apples, and the destruction of the latter 

 would only increase their attacks on the other trees. 



Mr. W. W. Saunders read Descriptions of some new species of the genus 

 Erycina." — JE. S, 



Zoological Society. 



Tuesday, April 27, 1858.— Dr. Geay, F.K.S., V.P., in the chair. 



Mr. Sclater read the second part of a " Synopsis of the American Ant-birds (For- 

 micariidae,'' containing the Furmicivorinae or Ant-wrens, the second sub-family 

 according to his arrangement of the group. The members of this section enumerated 

 amounted to sixty-eight in number, divided into ten genera. Among these species 

 were four considered to be undescribed, which were characterised under the names 

 Myrmotherula multostriata, M. cinereigularis, Uromacra nigricans, and Pyrigiena 

 maculieaulis. 



The Secretary read descriptions of some new Pinnag, and of a new Oniscia, from 

 the coUeclion of Mr. Cuming, by Mr. Sylvanus Hanley ; and descriptions of ten 

 new species of Bulimus from the same collection, by Dr. L. Pfeiffer. 



Dr. Gray made some additional observations on the genus Furcella. 



He also read a paper " On a new Genus and some new Species of Uropeltidae in 

 the Collection of the British Museum." The new species were characterised under 

 the following names : — Siloboura EUioti, S. Ceylonica, Morina Templetonii, M. uni- 

 maculata, M. melanogaster, and Maudia Jerdonii. 



Dr. Gray likewise read a paper " On Carpentaria, a new form of animal, interme- 

 diate between Rhizopods and Porifera, or a sponge with a forarainated many-celled 

 shelly case.'' 



Dr. Gray read a note on the egg of the "mooruk" (Casuurius Benneltii), which 

 was exhibited to the meeting by Mr. S. Stevens. 



Tuesday^ May 11, 1858. — John Gould, Esq., V.P., in the chair. 



Mr. Gould exhibited to the meeting a specimen of the American species, Regulus 

 calendulus, which was shot in a wood on Loch Lomondside, by Dr. Dewar, about five 

 years since. 



He also exhibited a specimen of the night heron, which had been shot at Coombe 

 Abbey, the seat of the Earl of Craven. 



Mr. Gould stated that he had received a letter from Dr. Bennett, of Sydney, 

 slating that since he had written the account of the new cassowary, which Mr. Gould 

 at a recent meeting of the Society named Casuarius Bennettii, a young bird of the 



