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of ca.i/rei: si. s, hut i\t each opening oi the ovipositor they produced only the small 

 drop of cement whicii aceompaiiios the egg in the normal oviposition of llie parent 

 species, resulting in a more or less perfect spiral band of cement upon the twigs. 

 Perhaps the most interesting feature of the exhibit is the great variability shown 

 by the specimens eom|>rising the larger of the 1902 compared with tiie remarkable 

 uniforuiity of the hybrid moths reared during the previous year. Mr. II. St. J. 

 Douisthorpe, specimens of Trimiuiii breoicorne, Heich., from Chiddingfold, Surrey, 

 an unusually southern locality for this species. Air. C i'. Pickett, specimens of 

 Hybernia leucuph<taria and L'kigalia pedaria taken at Chingford on February 14th, 

 and remarked upon the curious resting habit of the former species. He also ex- 

 hibiteil ova of Hiidroinis versicotoi' on birch twigs, laid March UJth. The parent 

 niotlis remained in cup. ihirt^'-three ami a half hours. Mr. Q-. C Champion, a long 

 series of specimens of a species of Ciieorrkinas (! pyrif'onnis) from Piedrahita and 

 iiejar, Spain, and called attention to the great dissimilarity between the sexes, and 

 also to till' pos.*ibdity of the females being dimorphic, one form clothed with green 

 scales, and the other with grey scales like the male. He also exhibited JJorcadion 

 Uejeaiii, Chevr., from the Sierra de Bejar, a species peculiar to that district. Mr. 

 R. McLachlan, F.K.S., a dragon-fly belonging to a small species of the genus 

 Orlhetrum (?), attacked by a Uy almost as large as itself uf the family Asilidce, tJiken 

 in I'ersia in June, I'Jitii, by Mr. Jll. F. VVitherby, F.Z.S., the well-known 

 ornithologist. The lly had inserted its proboscis at the junction of the head and 

 prothorax, a vulnerable point. He also exhibited a female specimen of a large 

 ^Eschnid dragon-Uy, Ilemianax ephipyiQer, Burm., captured in a street at Hevonport 

 on February :i4th, 11)03 \cj. ante, p. yb. — Eds.]. Professor E. B. Poulton, F.K..S., 

 exhibited seasonal forms of L'recis antilope, parent and offspring, bred in J 902 by 

 Mr. Gr. A. K. Marshall m South Africa, showing the remarkable dimorphism of the 

 species, which was especially noticeable in the protective colouring of the under-side 

 of the dry-season form as compared with the startling conspicuousness of the under- 

 side of the wet. He also exhibited Precis ccelestina, captured by Dr. C. A. Wiggin 

 in the Victoria Wyanza region, with the dry-season form of that sijccies, now taken 

 probably for the first time. Mr. VV. J. Jiucas exhibited with the lantern a slide 

 showing the larva of Cossus /igniperda in its gallery. Dr. T. A. Chapman exhibited 

 with the lantern a series of slides illustrating the life history of Lipkyra bras.solis. 



Mr. Gr. C. Champion, F.Z.S., read a paper on " An Entomological Excursion to 

 Bejar, Central Spain." Mr. Edward Saunders, F.E..S., F.L.S., communicated a 

 paper on " 7/_yHieAio^^<e?-a Aculeata collected by the Bev. A. E. Eaton, M.A., in 

 Madeira and Tencriite, in the spring of 1002." Dr. F. A. Dixey, M.A., M.D., read 

 a paper, illustrated by lantern slides, " On Lepiduptera from the White Nile, 

 collected by Mr. W. L. S. Loat, F.Z.S.; with further Notes on Seasonal Dimorphism 

 in Butterflies." He said that Mr. Loafs series did not seem to favour the opinion 

 that had been held that Teracolus evagore, as described and figured by Klug, was 

 the dry-season form of T. I'erburii, Swinh. It appeared from this and other 

 evidence that Mr. Gr. A. K. Marshall was right in dissociating the two forms. The 

 weakness of the reasons given for the contrary view had lately been pointed out by 

 Col. Yerbury. — H. Rowland Bbown, Hon. Sec. 



