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remarkable if we remember the wide r.ange of variability 

 shown by both the parent species, and that a very wide, if 

 not the entire local range, may be found within the limits of 

 a single brood of either species. 



Ml'. H. St. J. DoNisTiiORPE exhibited specimens of Triviivm 

 hrevicorne, Reich., from Chiddingfold, Surrey, an unusually 

 southern locality for this species. 



Mr. C P. Pickett specimens of Hyhernia leucoplisearia and 

 Phigalia pedaria taken at Chingford on February 14th. With 

 regard to the resting habit of the former species he said it 

 was somewhat curious. The bodies lay in a parallel position 

 to the bark of the trees on which they were found ; the cross- 

 markings of the wings in an upright position corresponding 

 closely with the lines of bark. Their colour also harmonized 

 remarkably well with the surioundings. He also exhibited 

 ova of Endromis versicolora on birch twigs, laid March 17th. 

 The parent moths paired on March 16th at 1.20 p.m., remain- 

 ing 171 cop. thirty-three and a half hours, until 10.55 p.m. the 

 following day. The female then commenced crawling about 

 the cage to find some suitable place for laying, and on the 

 introduction of some birch twigs deposited thirty-eight ova 

 in ten minutes upon them. On the morning of the 18th she 

 had laid 171 ova, which were cream-coloured and shiny in 

 appearance, but after two or three days assumed the colour 

 of the birch twigs upon which they were placed near the 

 buds. The female in the act of oviposition prefers to rest 

 head downwards, and sometimes uses the back legs for 

 anvanging the ova. 



Mr. G. C Champion exhibited a long series of specimens of 

 a species of CneorrJdnus (1 jJi/riformis, Boh.) from Piedivahita, 

 Spain, and called attention to the great dissimilarity between 

 the sexes, and also to the possibility of the females being 

 dimorphic, one form clothed with green scales, and the other 

 with grey scales like the male. He also exhibited Dorcadion 

 dejeani, Chevr., from the Sierra de Bejar, a species peculiar 

 to that district. 



Mr. R. McLachlan, F.R.S., exhibited a dragonfly belonging 

 to a small species of the genus Orthetrum, attacked by a fly, 

 fvlmost as large as itself, of the family AsiUda\ taken in 



