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wings, forming a graduation from a mere speck to well developed 

 spots ; bred from wild pupae during the past ten years. 



He also showed a fine pencil drawing by himself of a hybrid 

 between a pheasant and black grouse, and pointed out the special 

 characteristics. 



Mr. Enefer exhibited the Dodder, Ciiscnta ejathi/muni, parasitic on 

 gorse, and a section of the Mistletoe " sinker " in the branch of an 

 apple tree ; also an oak branch anastomosing with another at right 

 angles. 



FEBRUARY 23rd, 1922. 



Mr. C. Cheeseman, 30, Clayton Road, Peckham, S.E., was elected 

 a member. 



Lantern Evening, 



Mr. Hugh Main exhibited a series of slides to illustrate the 

 results of colour photography of insects by the combination of a 

 magnesium flashlight with the Paget process. 



Mr. Main then read an extract from Fabre on the field-cricket, 

 and illustrated his criticism of it by a series of photographic slides 

 of its life-history, as demonstrated in his own terraria. He also 

 showed photographic slides of the Wolf-spider, Lrjcosa sp., and of 

 its life-history similarly observed. 



Mr. Frisby exhibited slides showing the Serotine Bat, nest and 

 eggs of the Little Grebe, the Wild Duck, and the Moorhen ; British 

 orchids in situ, etc. 



The President exhibited slides of the liverwort {Marchantia poly- 

 morplia), showing remarkable proliferous growth when the thalli 

 were rotting under water; several fairy-flies [Myniariilae) which 

 oviposit in the ova of other insects, the beautiful tracheae of a 

 beetle, etc. 



Mr. Syms shewed slides of the ova of the butterflies Bithys 

 giierciis, Ituralis betidae, Thecla iv-aibnm, Strymon ftriini, etc. 



Mr. Tonge shewed a series of the ova of Geometrid species, 

 including Boaniiia consortaria, Thera jiiniperato, Dysstroma tntncata, 

 Pac/tycneiiiia hippoea.stanaria, Anticlea hadiata, Lobophora lialterata, 

 Liydia odnstata, Nyxda lapponaria, etc. 



Mr, Staniland exhibited four slides showing the galling of the 

 trunk of a wild crab- tree in North London by the Woolly Aphis 

 {Kriosoma laniyera). The galls were exceptionally large, and were 



