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by Mr. Sidebotham. Its form was that of an irregular tube, composed 
of clay and bits of stone, rather more than 3 inches long and 1^ inch 
in diameter ; this is lined with fine silk. The cover is formed of 
similar clay and bits of stone, and has a very beautiful and durable 
hinge of silk fibres. When this nest is built in a hollow on the 
ground and the lid closed it would be next to impossible to detect it, 
and the lid fits so beautifully that no rain can penetrate, nor could an 
enemy without great difficulty open the lid from the outside. 
Mr. Sidebotham also brought under the attention of the Section a 
specimen of rosewood from Brazil, showing the curious chambers 
made by one of the carpenter bees. These are on a much larger scale 
and more highly finished than those made by our English species. 
Mr. Dancer exhibited an emperor moth, which had been found 
alive by Mr. W. Mellor, of the Ardwick Lime Works, in his house, 
on the 17th February last. 
Mr. Dancer read a paper on the markings on the scales of Lepisma, 
and in Pleurosigma angulatum, which was reproduced in our Number 
for April. Mr. Walter Morris exhibited two slides of Pediculus puhis, 
which displayed the anatomy of these insects very beautifully. Mr. 
Hays made some observations describing a number of experiments on 
Anguillula itritic ; and, finally, Mr. Spencer Bickham read a paper "On 
the Flora of Cheshire," with notices of the new and rarer plants of 
the country. 
Brighton and Sussex Natural History Society.* 
April 8th, the President, Mr. Glaisyer, in the chair. — An evening 
for specimens. The only microscopic object exhibited was a hemip- 
terous insect, Tingis hjstricellus, new to science, from the Island of 
Ceylon, where it was discovered by Mr. Staniforth Green on the under- 
side of the leaves of a plant the native name of which is Bringall, and 
by that gentleman sent to Mr. Curteis, of Holborn. Under the micro- 
scope it presents the appearance of an insect porcupine, the head, thorax, 
and elytra being covered with a complete armature of spines, each of 
which is terminated by a seta, which seems to project from an open 
sheath. This insect was shown by Mr. Wonfor under one of Beck 
and Beck's Popular Microscopes, fitted with their new glass stage 
which affords a very smooth and delicate movement, admitting, as was 
shown, of an object being found with the greatest facility even under 
high powers. 
The Chicago [U.S.] Microscopical Club. 
The Chicago Microscopical Club held an adjourned meeting lately, 
at Kush Medical College, by invitation of Prof. J. W. Freer, M.D., 
to witness his exposition of the anatomy of the blood cells. 
At the regular meeting of the Club, held at the Academy of 
♦ Report supplied by Mr. T. W. "Wonfor. 
