228 lAugust, 



inoths crept to a depth of half-an-iucli, forcing their way into narrow cavities, and 

 laid their eggs in groups of six or twelve. The eggs are clothed with fine hairs, 

 tipped with refractive particles. The larva, about a millimetre in length, possesses 

 on each segment eight processes of a globular form, raised on a very slight pedicle. 

 Besides the thoracic legs, each of the abdominal segments (eight) possesses a pair of 

 minute jointed legs of the same type as the thoracic. There are also a pair of long 

 jointed antennae." 



Col. Swinhoe read a paper, " On new species of Heterocera from the Khasia 

 Hills." 



Mr. Crowley read a paper, " On a new species of Prothoe." 



Mr. C. J. Gahan read a paper, " On the South American species of Diahrotiea," 

 Part II, being a continuation of Dr. Baly's paper on the same genus, publialiod in 

 the Society's Transactions for 1890, Part I. 



Mr. W. F. Kii'by communicated a paper, entitled, " Notes on the Orthopterous 

 family Mecopodidm." 



Prof. Westwood communicated " Notes on Siphonophora artocarpi" referring 

 to an appendage of the eyes which had been overlooked in his previous description. 

 • — H. Gross and W. W. Fowler, Hon. Secretaries. 



ANNOTATED LIST OF BRITISH TACniNIIDJ£. 



BY E. H. MEADE. 



(Continued from page 157). 



14— NEMOR^A, Dsv. 



NeMOE^A et PlATYCHIKA, Rnd. 



Oen. ch. — Species mostly large, highly developed, and closely 

 allied to each other ; eyes hairy, more or less approximated in the 

 male, but never contiguous, and always much shorter than the sides of 

 the head ; forehead prominent ; antennae drooping, with the second 

 joint elongated, often nearly as long as the third ; facialia bare ; cheeks 

 sometimes clothed with soft hairs ; chin large, extending far below the 

 eyes, and setose ; abdomen oval, middle segments with or without 

 discal seta) ; fore tarsi more or less dilated in the females. 



Rondani noticed that those species which have both marginal and 

 discal abdominal setae, which are by far the more numerous, have 

 the fore tarsi of the females more dilated than those which are without 

 the discal setae ; he therefore placed them in a separate genus, which 

 he named PJatychira ; they resemble their congeners, however, so 

 closely ill all other characters that I think they should not be separated 

 fruiii them. 



