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is said to have a distribution extending from the Mediterranean 

 subregion throughout the tropical and subtropical zones of tlie 

 Old World. Specimens from Madeira (Wollaston collection) 

 are in the British Museum. The food-plant is stated to 

 be Lantana, and the larva is the " cotton worm " of Egypt. 

 Previous records of the aj^pearance of this moth in England 

 are in existence, one specimen having been exhibited at a 

 meeting of the City of London Entomological Society in 

 August, 1891 (Ent. Record, vol. ii., p. 167), by Mr. Boden, 

 who had found the larva feeding on an imported tomato. An- 

 other specimen was exhibited by Mr. Gregson at a meeting of 

 the Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society in 1893, 

 the larva in this case having been found in the market-place 

 at Bai-nsley (Entom. Record, vol. iv., p. 20). There is no 

 information in the case of the specimen now exhibited where 

 the larva came from, beyond the fact that it must have been 

 found at large in Boscomhe or the neighbourhood, as Major 

 Robertson has no communication with professional dealers, and 

 no larvfe are put into his breeding cages excepting those found 

 in his own district. 



Commander J. J. Walker said he had taken the larva 

 in the Central Pacific Islands feeding on the tobacco plant. 

 It was I'emarkable that the imago was so much smaller com- 

 paratively with the larva. 



Mr. O. E. Janson exhibited a Mantis on a portion of the 

 bark of a tree as found by Mr. F. Birch in Trinidad, who 

 stated that its close resemblance to a withered leaf was 

 evidently a protection for aggressive purposes. 



Mr. M. Burr exhibited a series of Calllmenidee, a small 

 family of Orthoptera, consisting of two genera, Dinarc/ms, 

 with the single species D. dasijpus, Illig., and CaUimenus, of 

 which all the known species were included, with the exception 

 of G. injlatus, Br., from Asia Minor. Callmienus ferdinandi, 

 Bol. (unpublished name), is a new species recently discovered 

 in Persia by tlie Spanish traveller Sefior Escalera; C. mon- 

 tandoni, Burr, was discovered near Bucarest in 1898, and has 

 since been rediscovered in the same locality, and its position, 

 which was somewhat doubtful, definitely established ; C. 

 oniscus, Charp., is fairly common in Greece and Southern 



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