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shown, the green ground-colour being eigpecially well 

 developed. This also was captured at Meldon Park, 

 Morpeth, by Mr. Finlay. Mr. Tutt further exhibited eggs 

 of Ennomos aiitnmnaria (alniaria), showing the regularity with 

 which the rows are placed one inside the other ; specimens of 

 (h-rliodia raccinii ab. ohscum, showing parallel variation 

 and considerable superficial resemblance to 0. ei-t/throce- 

 phala ab. i/lahra, captured by Dr. Riding, near Honiton, 

 Devon ; also some specimens of O. vaccinii, showing an 

 intermediate stage between the type and aberration ; also 

 cases of an Australian Psychid Liuthula omnirorn, Fereday, 

 sent over by Mr. W. W. Smith, of Ashburton, New Zealand. 

 Mr. Tutt said that it would be remembered that he exhibited, 

 some twelve months ago, a number of cases of Thyri- 

 d()})ti'rijx ephemera' forum, or a species allied thereto, and gave 

 figures of the same in Ent. Rec, vol. vii., with notes. Mr. 

 Smitii thought that the " Basket Caterpillar of New Zealand " 

 might prove equally interesting. 



Dr. Sharp called attention to Mr. Ernest Green's plates of 

 the CocciiUc of Ceylon, which were exhibited on a screen in the 

 room, and said that he was inclined to consider the Cocciche 

 as a distinct order of insects, but at present the evidence was 

 hardly sufficient to warrant this. He asked Mr. Green if he 

 could give him any information with regard to the develop- 

 ment of the wings in the male. 



Mr. Green said that in the males of the OoccidiP. the wings 

 first appeared in the penultimate stage as small projections on 

 the sides of the thorax. These wing-pads grew to a certain 

 extent without any further ecdysis. Though the insect was 

 then quite inactive, and took no food during this stage, the 

 rudimentary wings and legs were free from the body, and were 

 capable of some slight movement. After the final ecdysis the 

 wings of the imago were fully expanded, and assumed their 

 natural position before the insect left the sac, or puparium, in 

 which the resting stage had been passed. Mr. McLachlan 

 and others continued the discussion. 



Mr. Bethune-Baker exhibited a yellow spider from 

 Orotava, which was of the exact colour of the fiowers that it 

 usually rested upon, and which had been observed to catch 



