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AUGUST 2ith, 1922. 

 Mr. E. Step, F.L.S., in the Chair. 



Mr. T. L. Barnetfc exhibited a long series of Brenthis selene from 

 S. Devon, which showed two forms of the female in about equal 

 proportions, one having the ground colour lighter than the other. 



Mr. Withycombe exhibited the larva of the " Festoon " moth, 

 Limacodes testiido, beaten from oak at Oxshott ; also examples of the 

 Pentatomid Hemipteron, Acanthosoma interstinctiiiii {(jruentii), from 

 the same locality. 



Mr. Sims exhibited male and female specimens of the large ear- 

 wig, Labiiliira riparia, from its Bournemouth locality. In captivity 

 it burrows under the sand, and feeds readily on the larvae of beetles, 

 scraps of fish and meat, bread, flies, etc. He had seen it carry a fly 

 in its forceps. Mr. Main remarked that his specimens, when bur- 

 rowing, scratched like a rabbit, throwing out the sand behind. 



Mr. Main exhibited the spider, Clotho diiraiuli, from the South of 

 France, and read an extract from the "Life of the Spider," by 

 Fabre. He showed a photograph of the spider in situ, (1) the web 

 with debris of insects stretched out on the lower surface of a flat 

 rock ; (2) the web with surface layer removed ; (3) the next layer 

 partly removed, showing the spider and its egg mass ; (4) the layer 

 completely removed with the spider fully displayed. 



Mr. Hy. J. Turner exhibited a number of exotic species of 

 "whites," Pieridae, to show the extreme development of brilliant 

 coloration with total, or almost total, suppression of the white on 

 both surfaces. The species shown were Appias nero, ^ and $ , 

 from Java (brilliant orange red), Appias placidia, from the Moluccas 

 (uniform sooty brown on both sides), Delias uiinis, from Borneo 

 (black red, blue, and yellow). Pareronia }diocaea, from Mindanao, and 

 P. tritaea, from the Celebes (both black, brown, and green). 



Mr. Robert Adkin exhibited pupae of Papilio iiiachaon, and read 

 the following note : — " In June last I received a dozen larvae of P. 

 machaon, of Norfolk origin. Two of them died as larvae, and of the 

 remaining ten, one spun up on the midrib of a garden carrot leaf 

 which had been given them as food, another on the glass bottle that 

 had contained the food-plant, and a third on a thin stick of a dark 

 colour that had been placed in among the food-plant and was sur- 

 rounded by it. All these three pupae were of the usual pale 

 yellowish-green colour. The remaining seven larvae all attached 

 themselves to dark-coloured sticks that had been stood up at an 



