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of the stem and the pink ones below. Mr. W. A. Lamborn a series of twelve 

 Homoptera of the genus Flata, all taken feeding on one plant, 70 miles E. of 

 Lagos, on December 1st, 1911. The insects were dimorphic, and he stated that 

 the pink and green forms were mixed as they rested on the plant. Prof. Poulton 

 an ajjparently uninjured example of Euchelia jacobiem given him by Mr. Eoland 

 Trimen, F.E.S. The moth was flying slowly at midday in his garden at 

 Woking, when a robin captured it on the wing and flew with it behind a bush. 

 After about tliree minutes the bird flew away, and Mr. Trimen found the moth 

 lying upon the grovind. Dr. T. A. Chapman several unusual forms of some 

 common " Blues " taken this year in the Valley of the Isere and at Courmayeur. 

 He said that the " Blues " of this reg'ion are generally large and more than usually 

 variable ; and that it is also the headqiiarters in W. Europe of Agriades alexins, 

 Frr. Mr. Donisthorpe exhibited a number of (J <J of Ponera coarctata which he 

 had swept at Box Hill, and remarked that no one living appeared to have taken 

 cJ S ill Britain. Also c? c? > V ? , find ^ ^ oi FoTmicoxenus nitidulus, taken in 

 a nest of Formica rxifa at Weybridge. Also c? cJ > ? 9 > ^^d ? 5 of Leptothorax 

 tuhero-affinis. a form new to Britain, taken in some numbers in the New Forest 

 by Mr. Crawley and himself in July. Also a S , and winged and deiilated ? ? 

 of Anergates atratulus, which had been found in the New Forest in July by 

 Mr. Crawley and himself in the nests of Tetramorium csespitum. Mr. Hy. J. Turner', 

 on behalf of the Eev. C. R. N. Burrows, a long series of bred Celastrina argiolus. 

 The larvae had occurred each year for some time past in the garden at Mucking, 

 feeding on Portugal laiirel, attacking the flower buds in the early summer. The 

 whole of the specimens were unusually large, and the females had the black 

 border on the fore-wings very considerably developed and of a deep black ; many 

 had a strong development of whitey-blue on the basal half of the costal area, 

 and there was a tendency to develop a whitish suffusion in the discal area of the 

 fore-wing. Also a curious colour-print of an " Entomologist " published in 1830 

 in London, in which the whole of the figure was ingeniously made up of various 

 species of the Insecta, only the face being human. Mr. L. W. Newman, speci- 

 mens of Dianthwcia, bred from Nortli Kent wild larvae, resembling exactly, 

 both in size and coloration, Dianthwcia capsophila from the Isle of Man ; also 

 for comparison varied series of D. carpophaga, a pair of D. capsophila and 

 D. capsincola. Mr. W. G. Sheldon, a series of C. hecla, from the Porsanger 

 Fjord, Arctic Norway, with specimens of the other orange species occurring in 

 Europe for comijarison. Mr. W. J. Lucas, a living J of Labidura riparia (the 

 Giant Earwig), taken on the shore near Christchurch, Hants. Also a drawing 

 giving the colour of the living insects, and demonstrating how well they are 

 protected by resemblance to the pale sand of the Hampshire coast. 

 Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker, specimens of Heinalus i^yretiaicus, a species found not 

 uncommonly on the higher parts of Mount Canigou, with the apterous female ; 

 also a fine form of Lycsena avion, and a specimen of Hcodes hippothoe that was 

 at once radi;ited, obsolescent and assymetrical. Mr. Douglas Pearson, a drawer 

 of Rhopalocera from the Black Forest and the Swiss Alps, including an albinistic 

 specimen of Erebia lappona, the large Black Forest form of Colias palseno, 

 Brenthis pales from Pontresina, with underside hind-wings of a deep piu'ple- 

 i-ed, &c. Mr. J. A. Simes read a note on the egg-laying of Erebia glacialis, which 



