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Exhibitions, de. 
Mr. G. C. Champion exhibited a living specimen of a 
luminous species of Pyrophorus, sent to him by Mr. Arthur 
EK. Stearns, which had been found in an orchid-house in 
Dorking. It was supposed to have emerged from the roots 
of a species of Cattleya from Colombia. The following notes 
on the subject are extracted from Mr. Stearns’ diary :— 
“On Monday, 20th March, 1893, Mr. §. Welbore Ellis, of 
Dorking, brought me a living specimen of Pyrophorus, which 
he kindly permitted me to exhibit to Sir Wiliam H. Flower, 
Mr. Waterhouse, and others, his colleagues of the Natural 
History Department of the South Kensington Museum. I 
also showed it to Mr. Champion, of the Entomological Society, 
who asked permission to exhibit it at the next meeting of the 
Society on the 29th, which was kindly granted by Mr. Ellis. 
It appears that this insect was discovered in Mr. Ellis’s 
orchid-house, and would doubtless have been destroyed as a 
‘cockroach,’ as is usual with gardeners, had not Mr. Ellis 
noticed its luminous tubercles. It had been imported into 
this country probably as a larva last year among the roots of 
some Cattleya from the U.S. of Colombia, and hatched out 
under heat. Iam feeding it with treacle, which it eats freely. 
Friday, 24th March. This insect has unfortunately died. 
. . » . Some hours after its apparent death I took the creature 
in my hand, laying it upon its back in order to examine the 
under side of the abdomen, and I fancied that the warmth of 
my hand induced spasmodic movement of the limbs; to test 
this, I breathed hard upon it for perhaps fifteen seconds, and 
gradually the body arched itself in such a way as to poise 
upon the thorax and the tail end, the elytra assisting to the 
support of this position, and at the same time a portion of the 
body became brilliantly luminous, the light slowly dying away 
as the rigidity of the body relaxed.” 
Mr. A. H. Jones exhibited living full-grown larve of 
Charaxes jasius, found by Mr. Frederic Raine, at Hyeres, 
feeding on Arbutus wnedo. 
Surgeon-Captain Manders exhibited a series of Lycena 
theophrastus from Rawal Pindi, showing climatal variations, 
