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Mr. E. A. Butler exhibited male and female specimens oi Macro- 

 coleiis tanaceti, from Bramley, near Guildford; living specimens of 

 Chilacis typhcB, received from the Rev. E. N. Bloomfield, of 

 Guestling, Hastings ; and a pair of Harpalm discoideus, obtained 

 in August last, on a heath near Chilworth, Surrey. 



Mr. A. J. Rose exhibited specimens of a mountain form of 

 LyccBua Virgaurca, recently collected by him in Norway. 



Mr. Champion exhibited Temtocoris antennatus and Dnjnins 

 pilicornis, taken near Sheerness. 



Mr. W. White exhibited specimens of Proctotrypes ater (Nees) ; 

 also a specimen of Cheloida caja with abnormal anteiuife. 



Papers read. 

 Mr. William Wliite read the following remarks on the specimen 

 of Chelonia caja exhibited by him : — " On Sept. 8th, I received a 

 letter from Mr. George C. Griffiths, of CHftoii, Bristol, in which 

 he told me of a remarkable imago of Chelonia caja which he had 

 reared from a nearly full-fed larva. Mr. Griffiths found the 

 larva crawling upon a path outside the door of his house, on or 

 about July the 7th of this year, and put it into a chip box, thinking 

 it might perhaps produce a variety. He did not observe anything 

 at all unusual in the appearance of the larva, and I have not 

 been able to detect anything abnormal in its skin. Not knowing 

 the food-plant on whicli the larva had fed, he supplied it with 

 leaves of marigold, which it ate freely for the few remaining days of 

 its existence; it then spun its cocoon, and pupated about the 11th 

 of July. Mr. Griffiths then removed the top and bottom of the 

 chip box and placed it in a large breeding-cage, kept specially for 

 pupae. On August the 0th the moth emerged, somewhat small in 

 size, but presenting no other peculiarity than that of having 

 extraordinary antenna3, which were not only extremely short, but 

 altogether abnormal in form, and suggestive in appearance of the 

 club ends of a butterfly's antennae cut off short and affixed to the 

 insect. It was noticed that they were of a brownish colour, and 

 unequal in size, " the basal portion with transverse flutings, but 

 the broad ends having rather a dried-up and shrunken appear- 

 ance." Since receiving the insect I have examined it micro- 

 scopically, and the sketches of the antenna?, which I submit, 

 will illustrate their character more fully than can be described 

 verb;illy. 



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