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ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
J. G. Children, Esq. Sec. R. S., President, in the Chair. Various 
British and Foreign works upon Entomology were presented to the 
Society, and thanks ordered to be returned for the same to their re¬ 
spective donors. A. letter was read from Mr. Johnson, of the Island 
of Grenada, acknowledging the arrival of the report of the committee 
appointed to investigate the ravages of the cane fly in that Island. 
The following papers were read ; remarks on innumerable quantities 
of the dead bodies of Galerucca Tanaceti observed on the Coast of 
Lincolnshire, by W. H. Saunders, F. L. S. On the Tarsi of Insects, 
with reference to the superiority of the tarsel system of the coleoptera, 
and in opposition to the views of Mr. Mac Leay, by J. O. Westwood, 
F. L. S. &c. ; Observations on the ravages of Limnoria terebrans, a 
minute crustaceous animal, allied to the woodlice, upon the piles, &c. 
of marine erections, with the suggestion of remedies against the same, 
by the Rev* F. W. Hope, F. R. S., &c,Specimens of wood at¬ 
tacked by the insects, as well as of the insects were exhibited. 
Mr. Westwood communicated an account of the injuries done to 
barley and turnips by several species of insects which were exhibited, 
belonging to the C hocenon and Eucoila, as well as the pupa of a 
depterous insect, which, from its destructive habits, it was feared 
might prove to be the Musca Frit, which according to Linnaeus, an¬ 
nually destroys one-tenth of the crops of barley in Sweden.—Mr. R. 
H. Lewis exhibited some living specimens of beetles captured by 
himself in North America, nine weeks since, and which he had pre¬ 
served alive, without their having taken any food during that period.— 
A lengthened discussion on the various communications took place; 
—Mr. Yarrell suggested, that the situation of piles and other marine 
wood-work with a solution of corrosive sublimate, might, by the 
formation of a new compound of the vegetable juices with the corro¬ 
sive sublimate, as effectually prevent the attacks of insects as the not 
less injurious ravages of the dry rot, or other causes of decay. 
The first Part of the Society’s Transactions was announced as 
ready for delivery. 
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