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shortened and with the joints greatly dilated ; the clypeus 

 and labrum one half white (the (J character), and the other 

 half lilack as in the $ . In the abdomen and legs the ? 

 character predominated, but one half of the apical segments 

 and genitalia seemed to be S ■ 



In a discvission which followed on hermaphroditism, Dr, 

 Sharp stated that Father Wasman had announced the 

 discovery that in certain Dipteia, jiarasites of Tei'Uiites, the 

 individual commences as a male and ends as a female — a 

 I^henomenon entirely new to entomology, though paralleled in 

 some other groups. Father Wasman had examined a large 

 number of cases, and considered that the whole genital system 

 changes in the course of the imago life from male to female. 

 It was noteworthy that in this case of chronological her- 

 maphroditism protandry existed, as in all other cases of the 

 kind. The President expressed the opinion that such a 

 discovery required the confirmation of several workers. 



Mr. E. MoLachlan, F.R.S., exhibited a living example of 

 Chri/sopa vtdgaris, Schnd., taken by Dr. Chapman in his 

 house at Reigate. The primary object of the exhibition was 

 to show the manner in which this species, which is ordinarily 

 bright green, assumes a brownish colour, the abdomen being 

 often marked with reddish spots in hibernating individuals. 



Mr. W. J. Lucas submitted specimens of a bug — Miria 

 calcaratus — and some fruit of a grass, swept up together by 

 Mr. W. J. Ashdown from the canal side near Byfleet on July 

 14, 1902, on the occasion of the South London Entomological 

 and Natural History Society's excursion. The similarity of 

 form and colouring constituted a probable case of protective 

 resemblance. 



Major Neville Manders exhibited two specimens of an 

 undesci'ibed species of Atella from Ceylon ; and remarked that 

 it was a very local insect, and only found in the Nitre Cave 

 district, one of the localities most remote from civilization in 

 the island. It was probably a well-marked local race of 

 A. alcippe, but easily distinguished from any known species of 

 the genus by the apex of the fore-wing being entirely black. 

 The species is constant in colouring, but apparently varies 

 considerably in size. 



