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with a pale straw-coloured band, not so broad as in the male. 

 Mr. Crowley further exhibited a large number of specimens of 

 Saturnia from Natal, concerning the habits of which he read the 

 following extract from a letter, received by him that morning 

 (April 7th) from a gentleman who had sent over a number of 

 the pupae of this genus : — " The larvse of all our big moths 

 burrow into the soil to a depth of from two to three inches, and 

 there they remain, some for six mouths, some for ten. A. dione 



is an example of the former, and A. tyrrhea of the latter 



I search in due season for the young caterpillars, which, having 

 found, I remove to bushes and trees as near my own residence as 

 possible. I then watch them carefully day by day until I consider 

 them large enough to remove into my breeding-cages, all of which 

 have at least six inches of good clean soil at the bottom. When 

 full fed they burrow, as I have said before, and exactly six weeks 

 after the disappearance of the last one I dig up all the pupae and 

 lay them carefully side by side on moss, which I keep moistened 

 from time to time." Mr. Crowley added that he had received 

 pupae, from this source, of A. capensis, A. waUbergl, A. dione, 

 A. rubricunda, and A. tyrrhea, all without cocoons and so alike 

 that he could not separate the species. He stated that the 

 surface of the pupae was dull, rough, and black, like our own 

 Smerinthus popiili. 



The Rev. W. W. Fowler exhibited four beetles belonging to the 

 family CarabidcR ; three of them had been taken, twenty years 

 ago, on the banks of the Clyde, and had lately been identified as 

 Anchomenus Sahlbergi, Chaud, a species new to Europe, having 

 hitherto only been found in Siberia. The remaining specimen 

 was Anchomenus archanyelicus, Sahib., a North European species 

 nearly related to A. Sahlberyi, but easily distinguishable there- 

 from by the greater depth of the striae of the elytra. 



Mr. J. W. Slater exhibited, on behalf of Mi*. Mutch, a spider 

 belonging to the genus Galeodes, and a Lamellicorn Beetle from 

 the neighbourhood of Port Elizabeth, South Africa, belonging to 

 the genus Cetonia, which was at first supposed to be a monstrosity, 

 but was afterwards found to owe its unusual appearance to the 

 right elytron having been broken off and fixed on in a reversed 

 position. He further exhibited an undetermined species of a 

 beetle belonging to the family CurculionidcB, also from Port 

 Elizabeth. 



