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OcTOiiKR i6.— 128th Ordinary Meeting. Auditors appointed to audit the 

 Accounts of the Society. W. G. Ranger, Esq., gave a paper on Leaf Insects. 

 The lecturer said that so called leaf insects arc not really so, as they do not go 

 through the 3 metamorphoses, giving as an example butterfly, dragon-fly. 

 Real leaf insects are not much known in this country, most species coming from 

 abroad and are dried. He divided them into 4 groups. Forficula, specimen ear- 

 wig whose care of young was mentioned. Blatta, Cockroach, Black-beetle, 

 Prautes Religiosa, Fasmadi. The true leaf insect so much resembles a leaf, 

 saiall antennae, double wing cases, natives of China, South America and India, 

 very fond of fighting. There were some very fine specimens of Fasmadi handed 

 round, mode of laying eggs peculiar, they make a capsule in which they deposit 

 their eggs and then put it on a branch. The Larva is not a maggot but has 5 

 moults and then emerges a perfect insect. The structure and habits of 

 house-cricket, grass hoppers, and locusts were then mentioned. These Fasmadi 

 are much venerated by the Turks on account of devotional attitude assumed by 

 them. Some insects were then exhibited and remarks made by Mr. J. Jenner 

 Weir. An insect called the stick insect, is so much like a stick that the eminent 

 Naturalist E. R. Wallace was not able to discern it. 



November i. — 54th Gossip as usual. 



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