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Scottish specimen of Colias In/die, captured in Dmnbartonshire by Mr. 

 Mallock. He also exhibited a var. of Cnjwodes e.vtdis, taken by Mr. 

 Percy Bright in Unst, which form was at one time considered a 

 distinct species and termed lladcna maiUanU, together with tlie same 

 species from Ivannoch and Iceland. Mr. Auld, a varied series of 

 Ciicullia chamoinlUiC from Lewis. Mr. Eobt. Adkin, a series of Ihjbeinia 

 iino-i/inaria (pmi/t'ininaria), the progeny of a pair received from Mr. 

 Hewctt, of York. About sixty per cent, of the males were of the 

 black form and followed the parents, while the whole of the females 

 were dark. He also made remarks upou the scaling and pigmentation. 

 Mr. Mera, a larva of Callinioriiha Item which had fed all the winter, 

 and was in its last stage. 



Maij 13<//.— Mr. R. South, F.E.S., Vice-President, in the chair. Mr. 

 Stanley Edwards exhibited a small scorpion, which he had captured at 

 Digne, in the south of France, together with a specimen of the field 

 cricket, from the same locality. He also exhibited a pupa of Cliaraxes 

 jasius, and stated that Dr. Chapman had sent him larva; of this species 

 from Cannes earlier in the year. Mr. Tutt made remarks upon the 

 condition of vegetation and insect life as observed by Mr. Edwards and 

 himself during a week's holiday at Easter in the south-east of France. 

 The weather there was superb, but yet the vegetation was, at 1900 ft. 

 above the sea, but little in advance of that in the south of England. 

 With the development of insect life there was no comparison, for in 

 one day he had seen no less than fifty-two species of Lepidoptera. In 

 the corner of one field were to be seen all our three MelitjTeas fi.ying to- 

 gether. Mr. Lucas exhibited a mature and two immature specimens 

 of Leucophcea surinamcnsis = indlca, an Indian species of cockroach, 

 taken in the forcing pits at Kew Gardens. Mr. Montgomery, young 

 larvffi of ApaiHca uphiixjmimna in the stems of the ribbon-grass, and 

 contributed notes on its habit of leaving its old burrow and selecting a 

 new stem. Mr. South, a series of Atuplddasus sirataria [prodiomana], 

 and remarked on their small size, while the larvtD had been unusually 

 large. Mr. Auld, a varied series of Boanuia cinctaria taken this year 

 in the New Forest. Mr. II. Moore, specimens of the rare insect 

 Fseudopontia paradoxa, with drawings showing its anomalous venation, 

 its bifid scales, and the isolated position of each scale on the wing- 

 membrane. He contributed notes on the species, which he said had 

 come from Mombasa, East Africa, and about the position of which 

 there was the widest divergence of opinion ; some authorities placed 

 it in the Ehopalocera, some in the Geometers, and some among the 

 Bombyces. Mr. Turner, on behalf of Mr. Clarke, of Readiug, speci- 

 mens of Tcjihrosia crcpusculana taken in the wood which Mrs. Bazett 

 had said did not produce the species. Mr. Tutt read a paper, sent by 

 Prof. Grote, M.A., entitled "Autumnal Notes from the Butterfly 

 Camp by the Shores of Lake Erie." — Hy. J. Tuknek, Hon. Eeport Sec. 



Cambridge Entomological and Natural History Society. — April 

 SOth, 1897. The President in the chair. Dr. Sharp called attention 

 to a peculiar structure which he detected some years ago in CJirysiiidia 

 madcujascarcmis better known as Vrania rhijilteus. On each side of the 

 second abdominal segment there is an ear-like opening, usually much 

 concealed by overlapping scales, giving entrance to a chamber which 



