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long and robust legs, while the first pair of legs have been modified 

 into palpi, and instead of terminal claws, as found in the three pairs 

 of true legs, end in a sort of cushion similar to the palpi proper, 

 forming a second pair of feelers. Both cephalothorax and abdomen 

 are segmented. All are more or less venomous, and will attack and 

 kill small mammals, birds, lizards, locusts, and in some districts 

 bite sleeping camels. The specimen exhibited was either infected 

 with a nematode worm, or its last meal was off a worm, half an 

 inch of it extending from its mouth. 



Mr. Grosvenor remarked that a similar species was extraordinarily 

 abundant in Northern India, where the soldiers were troubled con- 

 siderably at night by them, as they crawled into their bedding, and 

 the urticating hairs on their legs caused painful irritation. 



Mr. Blenkarn exhibited Cri/ptocephalns coryli (Col.) from Mickle- 

 ham with a spot developed on each elytron ; also an aberrant form of 

 Pln/llodecta laticollis from Killarney, December, 1921. 



Mr. Hy. J. Turner, on behalf of Mr. Greer, of Stewartstown, Co. 

 Tyrone, exhibited the following aberrations he had recently 

 obtained: — Eucldo'e cardannnes $ Sih. viaryinata ; J orange blotch 

 streaked with black scales ; 2 small form ; 2 ab. radiata ; 2 with 

 faint orange streaks on forewings above and below. Melitaea a>in')tia 

 2 , a dull obscure form. Pararge meijera ^ , with apical blotch 

 reduced to a small dot ; J with double apical ocelli. Folyonnuatus 

 icoiiis, 3 with faint red marginal spots on upper side of hindwings, 

 below ab. icaiinus; ^ 2 gynandrous specimen; 2 marginal red 

 spots extended and band-like. 



Mr. Frohawk exhibited the following aberrations of British 

 Rhopalocera : — Aylais urticae, a fine suffused var., costal markings 

 suffused, tha two normal small discal spots represented by one 

 minute speck on each wing, hindwings dark and suffused, blue 

 marginal lunules entirely absent on all wings; captured Thun- 

 dersley, Essex, May 9th, 1920. 



Fieris napi, $ asymmetrical, central spot in right forewing almost 

 missing, unusually large on left wing ; captured April 29th, 1920, 

 Thundersley. 



An/i/nnis papliia J , central markings much suffused, rest of 

 markings greatly reduced ; captured New Forest, July 22nd, 1920. 



Kncldoe cardamines $ and 2 , both with central black dots in 

 hindwings; well defined and conspicuous in g : bred March 19th, 

 1920, Purley, Surrey. 



Pieris brassicae, series of 12 specimens with black spots in fore- 



