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a few specimens but golden on the majority. The larvae were of 

 the two forms, the light and the dark. 



Miss A. K. Lock exhibited an aberration of Brentliis enphrosijne, 

 taken on June 5th, at Worth, Sussex, with the ground colour of a 

 uniform pale yellow, the spotting remaining normal. 



Mr. Hugh Main exhibited the following items brought by him 

 from the South of France. 1. The larvae of the ant-lion, Palpnres 

 lihelhdoidea, and said that those obtained the previous year had 

 failed to produce imagines. 2. Specimens of a Tenebrionid beetle, 

 Piwelia sp, 3. Cases of the large Psychid, Psi/che rillosella, 

 and a large number of young larvae which had emerged from one of 

 them. These were very active in their own tiny cases. 4. The 

 blackbellied spider, Lj/cona narhonenaii^, described by Fabre, which 

 with some care could be obtained from its burrows by enticing it 

 with a small stick. 5. The spider, Clothn didandi, found under 

 stones at Ste. Baume. He pointed out that the web of this last was 

 a conspicuous affair supported by numerous " guy ropes," and con- 

 sisted of two layers, between which the spider laj^ awaiting her prey. 



6. The Myriapod, Scittigera aianeoides, noted as the species of which 

 Latreille ascertained the poisonous nature of the bite of this family. 



7. The larva of the local butterfly, Tliais nniiina, of which the birth- 

 wort, Aristolochia, is the food plant. He also described the pit of 

 the long maggot larva of the Dipteron, Leptis vennilio, which 

 used that device for the capture of ants. He had succeeded 

 in breeding one specimen. There were also innumerable small 

 scorpions and active geckos to be found in the same neighbour- 

 hood. 



Mr. Cheeseman exhibited the living larvae of Attacns cijnthia and 

 Saiiiia cecropia, two large silk-spinning Saturniids. They feed 

 readily on privet, and would also eat lilac. 



JULY \rjth, 11)22. 



Field Meeting — Horsley. 



('oiiditctor, F. B. Carr. 



A very pleasant meeting was held over the ground well known to 

 the S. London Society, and reported on at length on several previous 

 occasions. The morning party traversed Clandon Downs and pro- 

 ceeded by Newlands Corner to Netley Heath, where they were met 

 by the afternoon contingent. 



