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Lepidoptera, Intomeris Io reared this season, and a series of beautifully produced 

 photographs of British Lepidopterous larvae, found many admirers. Mr. E. J. B. 

 Sopp, F.R.Met.S. (Birkdale), a collection of Palaearctic and Exotic Forficulidce, 

 which included representatives of our giant Christchurch earwig, Labidura riparia, 

 Anisolabis mauritanica, from Tunis, Spongiphora croceipennis (Herminieri) from 

 Espirito Santo (Brazil), Chelidura Bolivari, from Castile, Apterygida japonica, 

 from Japan, and Forficula pubescens, a southern European earwig recently taken at 

 Colchester by Mr. Harwood.— E. J. Buegess Sopp, Hon. Secretary. 



Entomological Society of London : October 15th, 1902. — Prof. Edwabd 

 B. Potjlton, M.A., D.Sc, F.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. A. J. Chitty exhibited an entirely black specimen of Metcecus paradoxus as 

 tending to disprove the mimicry suggested by him at the meeting on Oct. 1st. Dr. 

 Chapman said that in his experience one out of every six specimens of this species 

 was black. Mr. Donisthorpe stated that out of about one hundred specimens he 

 had never caught or bred a black Metcecus. Mr. E. P. Picket, a yariety of the 

 female of Argynnis Agtaia, varieties of Satyrus Janira,&nd a long series of Lyccena 

 Corydon taken near Folkestone and Dover in August last, including four males of the 

 the last named species, with black band on the edge of the fore-wings much deeper 

 than usual ; also twelve dwarf male specimens of this species, four dwarf females, 

 and many other aberrant forms. Mr. Goss said this dwarf form of L. Corydon 

 occurred constantly, according to Mr. Sydney Webb, in one valley about two miles 

 oast of Dover, but he was unaware of its regular occurrence elsewhere in this 

 country ; he remarked that a dwarf form of L. Arion occurred everywhere where 

 the type was found, both in Gloucestershire and Cornwall. Prof. Poulton, Dr. 

 Chapman, and Mr. Sloper also remarked on the dwarf form of L. Corydon. Dr. 

 Chapman, specimens of Notodonta {Hybocampa) dryinops, Lower, from Queens- 

 land, sent to him under this name by Mr. F. Dodd ; it was remarkably similar in 

 appearance, structure, and habits to Hybocampa Milhauseri ; he stated that the 

 pupa with a similar spine to that of H. Milhauseri does not cut out a regular oval 

 lid from the cocoon like that species, but by a stabbing process pierces it with a 

 number of holes, so that a piece is more easily pushed off. The cocoon being 

 covered with bits of bark, stone, &c., a cutting process would be impossible, whereas 

 the cocoon of H. Milhauseri was of pure gum-like silk ; he pointed out that the 

 larva much resembled that of H. Milhauseri, but the hinder segments were more 

 like those of Stauropusfagi ; also living eggs, larvae and imagines of Orina tristis, 

 var. smaragdina, from Pino, Maggiore ; the beetles were taken on May 30th, and 

 had laid many eggs. Dr. Chapman said that the embryo, ready to hatch, might be 

 seen within some of the eggs, and its hatching spines observed. Mr. Sloper, a 

 specimen of Lycana Hylas, caught at Dover on September 7th last. Mr. Martin 

 Jacoby communicated a paper, entitled, " A further Conti'ibution to our knowledge 

 of African Phytophagous Coleoptera." Mr. Malcolm Burr read a communication 

 from Hofrath Dr. Carl Brunner Von Wattenwyl, entitled, " Observations sur le 

 nom generique Acrida." — H. Goss, Hon. Secretary. 



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