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own shroud and dies. The people of Efeet sometimes take a 

 number of insects and put them in one of their native pots, 

 when they commence to work, and line the interior of the pot 

 with their bag, by which means the people obtain large ones, 

 which they use to put cloth in, or any light article, and which 

 are said to be waterproof." 



Dr Lowe regretted that, while the objects were of themselves 

 of the highest interest, he was able to offer so little in the way 

 of information respecting them. There was no doubt, how- 

 ever, that they were the production of lepidopterous insects, 

 and this belief was confirmed by Mr Andrew Murray, who 

 brought to the Society an excellent drawing of some bags ex- 

 tremely analogous to those exhibited, and which are known 

 to be the production of a gregarious butterfly in Mexico, a de- 

 scription of which, together with an illustrative plate, will be 

 found in the Transactions of the Entomological Society of 

 London, vol. i. p. 38, published in 1836. As one of the bags 

 from Africa was much, more dense in its texture than the 

 others, Dr Lowe was led to think that two species of insect 

 had been employed ; but Mr Logan thought both might be 

 produced by the same butterfly or moth. Mr J. T. Syme 

 added some remarks ; and all the members joined in the hope 

 that specimens of the insect, in any state of transformation, 

 or however roughly preserved, might at a future time be pro- 

 cured by the kind agency of Mr Goldie. 



II. A Series of recently -discovered Eyeless Beetles from the Caves ofCar- 

 niola and Hungary were exhibited — By Andrew Murray, Esq. 



Mr Murray exhibited a fine series of eyeless beetles from the 

 various caverns, &c. where these curious and rare animals 

 have been found. There were twenty-six different species 

 shown, of which there were a number which had been only 

 discovered and described within the last two years, the pos- 

 session of which he owed to his friend Herr Dohrn of Stettin. 

 He pointed to the two new genera — Pholeuon and Drimeotus 

 — >as being of special interest, as filling up a blank between 

 the genera of Leptoderus and Adelops. and proving that the 

 former of these genera truly belonged to the family of the 

 Cholevidce, instead of being allied to the genus Mastigus, as 



