Mr. H. Moore exhibited a number of scorpions from the Mediter- 

 ranean region — South Africa, West Indies and North and South 

 America; also the pseudo-scorpion Thelejihonns giyanteus from 

 Florida ; the centipede Scntigera culeojitrata from Chanak (Dar- 

 danelles), and a large bird killing spider {My (/ale) from the Upper 

 Amazon ; also the skin of a West African python which measured, 

 when killed, 16 feet in length. 



Mr. W. J. Ashdown exhibited examples of aberrations of the 

 common earwig, Forficula anrictilaiia, including specimens with 

 teratological and asymmetrical forms of forceps. One example had 

 extremely well developed forceps, another had them very consider- 

 ably dwarfed. 



Mr. W. J. Kaye exhibited a drawer of the large and conspicuous 

 insects he had met with at various times in South America and 

 especially in Trinidad, including the Coleopterou Dynastcs herculest 

 the huge dragon-fly Microstiynia sp. from British Guiana, specimens 

 of the Lepidopteron-like Hemiptera of the Flatina group, the large 

 Corydolis corhutus, the huge lantern-fly P/iriattis ciiadewa from Rio, 

 a bird-killing spider Therophosa avicidare from Trinidad, several very 

 large Phasmids, the harlequin beetle Acrocinns loivjimanus from 

 Trinidad, and the large Longicorn Titanus 'jii/anteus from British 

 Guiana. 



Mr. B. W. Adkin exhibited. — 1. Fruit of Patdoicnia imperialis 

 (Sieb. and Zucc), and of Catalpa kampferi (Sieb and Zucc). 

 These trees, he said, both come from Japan. Though their seeds 

 so are dissimilar, their leaves and twigs are much alike, and they 

 are often mistaken for one another. Both trees are uncommon in 

 Britain, but can hardly be called rare. They are of unusual but 

 particularly handsome appearance, and grow to a height of, say 30 

 feet, with spreading branches. The leaves are very large, simple, 

 and spade-shaped. Paulon-nia impeiialis, known in Japan as the 

 " Kiri," is the only member of its genus usually seen in Britain. 

 The leaves grow opposite to one another on the twigs, and 

 the tree carries an erect raceme of somewhat variegated purple 

 flowers, exactly similar to a foxglove flower in shape and size. It 

 belongs to the same family as the foxglove, viz., Scropliulariacea. 

 Catalpa kampferi has three brothers at least. C. bi(nionioi(Us, the 

 " Indian bean " of the Southern United States ; C. conUfolia, often 

 called C. speciosa, the " Western catalpa " from Western Kentucky, 

 Tennessee, etc. ; and C. faryesi from China. C. hunyei, C. 

 ducloit.rii, and C. teaf>ia)ia, a hybrid, are also recorded. The leaves 

 of these trees leave the twig in groups of three, and the flower 



