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is restricted to the Pyrenees, where, according to Gadow (" Cam- 

 bridge Nat. Hist."), it prefers lakes which are fed during the whole 

 of the summei' with water from the melting glaciers. 



Apart from colour, the Pyrenean Newt is much like our Crested 

 or Warty Newt {M. cridata), the skin being rough with closely set 

 warts, and the tail thick and powerful, flattened slightly from the 

 sides. Viewed from above, it will be seen that the muzzle, instead 

 of being rounded is truncate, the tip between the nostrils being quite 

 straight. Of the present pair the female is the larger, her total 

 length being 5J inches, whilst that of the male is only 4^ inches ; 

 and there is a difference in the proportions of tail and body, that of 

 the male being slightly less than half his length, and that of the 

 female slightly exceeding the length of head and body. 



The general colour of the male is a greenish yellow-brown, darker 

 on the upper parrs, where there is a distinct, though interrupted, 

 yellow vertebral line from behind the head ; the underside with a 

 broad longitudinal band of dull yellow bordered with dark spots, the 

 tail with an orange keel and cloaca dull grey. The colour of the 

 female is darker, more approaching olive above, but orange below — 

 the cloaca reddish (Gadow says " bright red "). The vertebral line 

 is only slightly indicated, and chiefly along the tail. 



Mr. C. L. Withycombe exhibited the following species of Orthop- 

 tera : — FJmptisa erjena, Charp., and Oedipoda t/ermanica, Latr., from 

 the S. of France, 1921, with Psophiis stridnlnn, L., from the Pyre- 

 nees, in 1922. The two last have red hind wings. He also showed 

 a Mantid from the Straits Settlements, with a short prothorax and 

 ill-developed forelegs, which are in the Mantids usually strong and 

 raptorial. 



Mr. Enefer exhibited the following Coleoptera taken by him at 

 Miirren, in Switzerland, during August, 1922 : — 



Clems apivoriis, Strauffalia qiiadrifasciata, both feeding on cow- 

 parsley; Carabitu arvem^is, the spotted pine- weevil, A>//*(ir//.s (jennanux, 

 the two last on fir-logs ; also a living CarabiiH aiiratiin. 



He also showed the yellow crab-spider, Thouiisus ojuistns, one of 

 the wolf-spiders, Lycosa and two fine 3 banded orb-spiders, Epeira 

 faaciata taken near Clarens, Lake of Geneva, and communicated the 

 following note of his observations : — 



" Taken on May l6th, both fed fairly well upon flies and small 

 moths, but after the 19th the larger of the two refused food until 

 the 27th, when it accepted a fragment of a fly. During the interval 

 it became greatly reduced in size, and I was very pleased to find that 



