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, AUGUST 26th, 1920. 



Mr. Hugh Main exhibited a living nymph of Mantis relifjiosa 

 from S. France, and referred to its habit of hanging from a twig 

 when at rest. It was usually very sluggish. Mr, Grosvenor con- 

 firmed Mr. Main as to the hanging habit from his own observation 

 of Indian species of Mantis. Mr. Main also exhibited a large 

 spider, Lycosa sp., referred to by Fabre, which lives in holes in the 

 ground, and prefers butterflies and moths as food, but if par- 

 ticularly hungry will eat larvae and flies. I'abre states that the 

 female sits on the raised edge of its hole holding up its egg cluster 

 to the sun, but Mr. Main saw neither the female acting thus nor 

 the raised edge. He showed a second species which fed readily on 

 flies and the fat larvae of Rhariinm inquisitor. 



Mr. Bowman exhibited a male Parasewia plantafiinia in which 

 the hindwing on the right side was duskily suffused. It was bred 

 from Portsmouth larvae. From 60 pupae 55 imagines emerged in 

 the course of four days. He noted that the apical fascia vary from 

 being entire to much interrupted. 



Mr. Barnett exhibited a long series of Hudriomena fnrcata from 

 Coomb Pyne, S. Devon, in which the all green, the light banded, 

 the much variegated and the very dark forms with intermediates 

 were all present ; a short series of Ewaturi/a atomaria, those from 

 Limpsfield being small and very yellow, comparable to the prevalent 

 continental form in colour, while those from Oxshott were very 

 variable, some being much suffused with very small lighter areas ; 

 also a Plehiiis cei/on. from Oxshott, with a brilliant white submarginal 

 band on the underside. 



Mr. B. S. Williams exhibited a number of Fungi collected at 

 Finchley that day, including Rnssula ciuetica, B. integra, R. citrina, 

 Paxillns involittus, Laccaria laccata, Lactarius quietus, Hypholoma 

 fasciculare and Clavaria cristata. 



Mr. Sich remarked that he had discovered that the newly 

 hatched larva of Coleophora ibipennella, after mining for about two 

 days in the birch leaf upon which the eggs had been laid, con- 

 structed its first case by uniting the frass extruded from its mine 

 with silk. Before leaving the mine it cast its first skin. 



Mr. Edwards reported Celastrina an/iolns on August 16th, but 

 so far had only seen an odd specimen of Catocala nupta, which 

 usually was fairly common around Blackheath. 



Mr. Edwards and Mr, Grosvenor exhibited a number of forms 



