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a large cocoon had been formed, about the size and very much like 

 a large gooseberry. The cocoon was attached firmly to the side of 

 my collecting box by silken cords, and it was most interesting to 

 watch the elaboration of the beautiful covering of webbing, that 

 ultimately closed the aperture at the top." 



Mr. Hugh Main exhibited one of the wolf-spiders, Li/cosa picta, 

 sent to him by Mr. Bristowe, from Oxshott, and also the tubes of 

 silk spun in the sand. Also a crab-spider from S. France, and 

 referred to Fabre's description of the young spiders spinning a fine 

 silk thread, and being carried while attached to it for along distance 

 by the currents of air. They soon assumed the colour of the flowers 

 frequented by them. On the flower heads the full grown spider 

 caught bees, while the young first began by capturing any minute 

 insects which settled on the flower head. He next showed a Scara- 

 bnt'iis beetle, from Cyprus ; and the native cockroach, Ectobiiis 

 pameri, from the New Forest. 



Mr. Cheeseman exhibited a striated form of Poli/oiniiiatus icayns, 

 from Surrey. 



Mr. B. S. Williams exhibited the following Coleoptera from the 

 Harpenden district, taken in 1921-2: — Pa)ia;iaei(s bijnistiilatiis, a 

 local species, Cassida ln'inis/i/uiej-ica, Stiliciis stibtilis, Qiiediiis otliiiii- 

 £)isis [talpaniiii), Aleocliara apcvUcca, the two last from moles' nests, 

 IJcfiart/inia deiiticnUis, AutherojiliOf/Ks 7ii(/ricoriiix, and A. pallena. 



Mr. G. E. Frisby exhibited the following Hymenoptera : — Amino- 

 pliila hiffii, described by the late Mr. Edward Saunders, in 1903, from 

 specimens t<i,ken in the summer of that year, in Jersey, and its very 

 close ally AiiiDio/i/iila hirsiita. llruibex nistiata, from St. Ouen's 

 Bay, Jersey. 



Also specimens of both British species of Sajnpja, the counnon .S. 

 B-pinirtafa, and the very much rarer ,S'. claMcoruis, the latter until 

 recently being only known from the records of Shuckardand Smith. 

 Now known from several localities; those exhiijited being taken this 

 summer near Hastings, with one specimen from Wrotham, Kent. 



Mr. Stanton exhibited some Coleoptera of economic importance 

 and read the following notes: — " Bnic/ms ruriiiiaiiiis and B. al/inis. 

 — For some years Coleopterists have called a large Bnir/ms, intro- 

 duced into Britain on beans from Mediterranean regions by the 

 name BnicliKs alllnia. In conversation Mr. Blair has suggested 

 that the name Ih-Kclttis affinis should be applied to quite a different 

 species, and on this understanding it seems necessary to discover 

 whether the Diurhiis a/finin of English collectors is merely a large 



