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form, and some with very small spots. He also reported that his 

 son had seen a specimen of Envanessa antiopa at rest with wings 

 open on a gate in Hurst Road, Bexley, on September 19th. 



Messrs. 0. R. and A. de B. Goodman exhibited series of 

 Nonhnannia [Theda) ilicis with var. cerri, from Digne, June, 1921, 

 showing enlarged orange patch on upperside of forewing in both 

 sexes ; together with var. aesctdi, from L'Esterel, June, 1921, show- 

 ing absence of white line on underside forewing ; also Kliigia 

 {Theda) spini, two from Digne, June, 1921, showing straight white 

 line underside hindwing, and one from L'Esterel, June, 1921, 

 showing concave white Ime underside hindwing ; together with one 

 from St. Martin Vesabie, July, 1921, typical female, and two strik- 

 ing aberrations showing greater widening of white Ime on underside 

 of hindwing, from same locality. 



v> 

 OCTOBER 27th, 1921. 



Mr. J. A. Vernon, "Lynmouth," Reigate, Surrey, was elected a 

 member. 



Mr. Hugh Main exhibited a female scorpion, Scorpio ciini/iaciis, 

 with her family clustered over her body. The parent was taken 

 last May at Hyeres, and had since been kept in solitary confinement 

 and fed on flies and other insects. In the afternoon of October 14th 

 two young were observed resting on the back of the mother and 

 their number gradually increased during the evening till about two 

 dozen could be seen. They were all white at first, except for the 

 black eyes on the middle of the cephalo-thorax and those on each 

 side of its anterior border. They were only very slowly showing 

 any darkening which was commencing on the posterior border of 

 each abdominal segment. The tail was carried curved over the 

 back and not held flat, in the same horizontal plane as the body, 

 as is so frequently found in the case of the adult creature. The 

 mother fasted for about ten days after the birth of the young, but 

 has since commenced to feed again. The young very rarely move 

 about, usually resting motionless. The parent walks around at 

 night without disturbing her family. 



Mr. Grosvenor had seen the Asiatic species in N. India carry its 

 young in the same way in the autumn, and in the spring he had 

 noticed their young in the same motionless condition, suggesting 

 that they had remained with their mother the whole winter. They 

 were still white in colour. 



