BY JULIAN GWYTHER. 
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The Morell, as is well-known, is one of the most popular of 
esculent fungi. It may readily be dried by hanging in a current 
of air ; and, as it loses none of its flavour in undergoing this 
change, it serves well for flavouring soups, &e., when in this 
condition, especially if fresh morells or other fungi are not 
available. It also makes excellent, ketchup, and also, when 
fresh, forms a delicious dish, especially if stuffed prior to cook- 
ing with minced white meat. In Cashmere as well as Europe, 
where the morell also grows in profusion, it is extensively 
gathered and held in high repute. 
NOTES ON THE SPIDER CEL.ENA EXCAVATA. 
BY 
C. Julian Gwyther. 
(Read on 17th November, 1892). 
XYLORYCTS, OR TIMBER MOTHS. 
BY 
R. Illidge. 
(Read on 15th December, 1892), 
The moths of the family Xyloryctidse were known to me 
many years ago, and the curious habits of the larvas formed the 
subject of frequent investigations, but not until the present year 
did I prosecute any active search for them. This season I have 
been eminently successful, as the exhibit illustrating these 
remarks will prove. Many of you I have no doubt have noticed 
the strange webs mixed with dejectamenta, little bits of bark, 
and woody matter, which serve to hide the entrance to their 
burrows or tunnels in the stems and branches of young trees. 
The caterpillars form these tunnels, and so cover them, I believe, 
to protect themselves from external foes, such as birds (they are 
certainly not protection against theichneumonidse, for these insects 
destroy them wholesale), for being fat, naked grubs with only a few 
slight hairs, they no doubt would form a delicious morsel. In 
