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their own, covered it with their 'curtain' so cleverly that 

 no red tile was left showing as a mark for their nest, the 

 whole of which was behind the tile in a space between the 

 wall and the battening. That it was the intention of the 

 wasps to hide the red tile appears certain, for, not being able 

 to take the nest that evening, the man brought away the piece 

 which covered the tile, and, on returning the next night, he 

 found the wasps had again begun to build, and had made 

 some progress in hiding the red tile with the same sort of 

 covering as before." 



It was suggested that the wasp "paper" is probably a very 

 bad conductor of heat, and that it wight be a question of 

 temperature rather than of concealment of the nest. 



Pajurs read. 



The Hon. Walter Eothschild communicated a paper 

 entitled " Notes on a collection of Lepidoptera made by 

 Mr. William Doherty in Southern Celebes during August 

 and September, 1891. Part I. Rhopalocera." He also sent 

 for examination tlie types of the new species described 

 therein. 



Dr. Sharp read a paper entitled " On the Eggs of an 

 Hemipterous Insect of the ¥ d^mWy Reduviida.'" 



June 1, 1892. 



Robert MoLachlan, Esq., F.R.S., Treasurer, in the chair. 



Donations to the Library were announced, and thanks voted 

 to the respective donors. 



Exhibitions, do. 

 The Hon. Walter Rothschild sent for exhibition Neptis 

 mimetica, n. s., from Timor, mimicking Andasena orope, one of 

 the EuplaidcB, and C'l/nthin cnquicolor, n. s., a species remark- 

 able for the similarity of the two sexes, from the same 

 locality ; also a hybrid between SatKniia carpini and S. pijri, 

 and specimens of Callimorpha dominula var. romanorii, var. 

 iialica, and var. donna, bred by a collector at Zurich ; he 



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