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white, obtained in Essex in 1891 ; and a variety of Acronycta 

 rumicis, also taken in Essex, with a beautiful dark hind 

 margin to the fore wings. 



Mr. H. J. Elwes exhibited a living specimen of a species 

 of Conocephalusi, a genus of Locustida, several species of which, 

 Mr. C. 0. Waterhouse and Mr. McLachlan stated, had been 

 found alive in hothouses in this country. 



Dr. T. A. Chapman exhibited immature specimens of 

 TiTniocampa gracilis, T. gothica, T. popiileti, T. vunuJa, T. in- 

 stabiJis, and T. Umcograplia, which had been taken out of their 

 cocoons in the autumn, with the object of showing the then 

 state of development of the images. 



Mr. F. W. Frohawk exhibited a living specimen of the larva 

 of Carterocephdlus palamon (Hesperia panisais), hybernating 

 on a species of grass which he believed to be Bromus asper. 

 The Eev. Canon Fowler and Mr. H. Goss expressed their 

 interest at seeing the larva of this local species, the imagos 

 of which they had respectively collected in certain woods in 

 Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire. Mr. Goss stated that 

 the food-plants of the species were supposed to be Plantago 

 major and Cynomrus cristatiis, but that the larva might pos- 

 sibly feed on Bromus asper. 



Mr. C. G. Barrett exhibited a long series of remarkable 

 melanic and other varieties of Boarmia repandata, bred by 

 Mr. A. E. Hall from larvas collected near Sheffield. 



Mr. W. Farren exhibited, and commented on, four varieties 

 of Papilio macluton from Wicken Fen ; also a series of two or 

 three species of Xepticidoe pinned on pith with the " minutien 

 Nadeln,"' for the purpose of showing these pins. 



Canon Fowler exhibited specimens of Xylehorus perforans, 

 Woll., which had been devastating the sugar-canes in the 

 West Indies. Mr. C. 0. Waterhouse stated that the larvae 

 had done great damage to beer-casks in India. 



Mr. E. B. Poulton showed, by means of the oxy-hydrogen 

 lantern, a number of slides of various larvte and pupte, in 

 illustration of his paper, read at the October meeting, entitled 

 " Further experiments upon the colour-relation between cer- 

 tain lepidopterous larv» and their surroundings." He stated 

 that he believed that nineteen out of twenty larvae of 



