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having only 3 joints to the tarsi, and therefore was formerly placed 

 in the Gryllidae, but the ovipositor is flat, and there are other 

 structural differences. It is recorded as destroying silk-worm eggs 

 in Japan, and also as being injurious to plants by Keh. Investiga- 

 tions made by Boss, 1914, in hothouses in W. Prussia showed that 

 it only attacked very young shoots of plants, apparently for moisture. 

 Allied species are carnivorous, and the present species feeds on ear- 

 wigs and millipeds. In confinement it feeds on raw meat, fruit and 

 vegetables. 



Dr. G. S. Robertson exhibited specimens of Catocala fraxini, 

 originating from a specimen captured at Horsham, Sussex. The 

 very dark specimen was of the 2nd generation from the original, the 

 intermediate and the pale specimens were of the 4th generation. 



Mr. Harold B. Williams exhibited his series of Enchloe cardawines, 

 L., including the type specimens of ab. caulosticta, Williams, and 

 ab. radiata, Williams (" Trans. Lond. Nat. Hist. Soc," 1915, pp. 

 67 and 69-70), and specimens of other named forms, particularly ab. 

 citronea, Wheeler, ab. ochrea, Tutt, ab. conimaciilata, Obth., ab. 

 turritis, Och., ab. minora, Selys, ab. dispila, ab. quadripunctata, 

 Fuchs, and var. hibernica, Williams. Also series illustrating the 

 minor variation in depth of colour of apical markings and orange 

 blotch, and in size of the discoidal spot. 



Mr. Robert Adkin exhibited series of Diacrisia mendica, including 

 typical males from Sussex for comparison with race rustica from 

 Co. Cork, race venosa from Co. Tyrone, and the mongrel race 

 obtained by crossing Sussex males with venosa females, which he 

 had named race mistura. He called attention to the greyish tone 

 of colour of race venosa as compared with the yellowish tint of race 

 rnstica, and pointed out that in the mendica and venosa mongrels 

 this grey tone of colour was intensified, and contrasted strongly with 

 the sandy brown colour of the mendica x rustica mongrels known 

 as race standfussi. 



He also showed a series of /it'/.se co?? roZt;»Z/, captured in his garden 

 at Eastbourne, in September last. 



Mr. L. T. Ford exhibited a short series of Peronea cristana, from 

 the Isle of Wight, and pointed out a form approaching ab. purdsy- 

 ana, hitherto only taken at Folkestone. 



Mr. Turner exhibited two old Entomological books, " Insectorum 

 sive Minimorum Animalium Theatrum," by Thomas Moufet, pub- 

 lished in London in the reign of Charles I., 1634, and " De anima- 

 libus insectis libri septem," by Ulysses Aldrovandus, published in 



