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Meyer, and var. rossii, Stefanelli, and ab. erganoides, Stefanelli ; and 

 Pieris ergaiie, Hiibn. With these examples he showed also enlarged 

 photographs of male and female specimens of the summer forms of 

 the above-named species to illustrate the difference in the character 

 of the markings and shape of the wing. — Commander J. J. Walker 

 exhibited (a) a "co-type" of Austrostylojjs gracilipes, Lea., from 

 Bridgetown, W. Australia; {h) a series of Carabus violaceus, L., var. 

 exasperatus, Curtis, taken by Mr. F. C. Woodforde, at Bude, where 

 this race appears entirely to replace the ordinary form of violaceus ; 

 and (c) four examples of Hamonia appendicnlata, Panz., taken near 

 Kidlington, Oxon, August, 1910 ; also {d) a specimen of Crypitopkagus 

 subdepressics, Gyll, from Wytham Park, Berks, with the right 

 antenna duplicated from the third joint. — Mr. W. F. H. Eosenberg 

 showed a living beetle of the genus Alindria, received in a collection 

 of preserved Coleoptera from Abyssinia. The insect has the habit of 

 simulating death on being alarmed, which probably accounts for the 

 collector having packed it up w^ithout noticing that it was alive. — 

 Mr. H. St. J. Donisthorpe exhibited two nests of ants to illustrate 

 his observations on the founding of nests of Formica rufa by a 

 female of that species in nests of F. fiisca, and also made some 

 remarks on the association in nature of F. rufa and F. exsecta. — 

 Mr. J. W. Tutt brought for exhibition a fourth British example 

 of Xylophasia zollikoferi sent him for determination, taken in 

 September, 1905, at Norwich, by Mr. Plunkett. — Dr. T. A. Chap- 

 man exhibited several cases containing series of Agriades coridon, 

 var. meridionalis, Tutt, male ( = constanti, Keverdin), and gave an 

 account of his breeding experiments made to show that this form is 

 double-brooded. — Mr. J. W. Tutt said the Eivieran race of A. coridon 

 was exceedingly interesting, as providing the only case recorded 

 where the species is certainly double-brooded. He also gave an 

 account of the geographical distribution of the species, and the 

 differences of marking in the various races. — Mr. G. Meade- Waldo 

 exhibited an example of the Mantis Hymenopus bicornis in the 

 larval state, and read a note on the subject of the "praying" attitude 

 communicated by Mr. J. C. Moulton. — The Kev. G. Wheeler gave 

 an account of an entomological excursion made by him this summer 

 in the Abruzzi, and exhibited two drawers containing specimens 

 taken at x\ssergi, Sulmona, Aquila, Eoccaraso, Palena, Scanno and 

 Villalago ; and a few also from Subiaco in the Latian Apennines. — 

 Mr. E. Dukinfield Jones brought for exhibition lantern slides of 

 Lepidoptera in natural colours, photographed by the Dufay Diopti- 

 chrome process. The advantages over other plates, he said, were the 

 greater transparency and the facility of working : they were, in fact, 

 very little more trouble than an ordinary negative. — Miss Margaret 

 E. Fountaine communicated a paper on " Descriptions of some 

 hitherto unknown, or little known. Larvae and Pupoe of South African 

 Ehopalocera, with Notes on their Life Histories." — Professor 

 A. Jacobi communicated a paper, "Eemarks on the Cicadoid Genera 

 Lambeja, Dist., and Drepanopsaltria, Bredd." — Mr. Arthur M. Lea 

 communicated a paper, " On the new Genus of Svylopidcd from 

 AustraUa." — H. Eowland-Brown, M.A., Hon. Sec. 



