ty) 
common in broods both from captured females and from 
specimens paired in captivity. This form had eggs smaller 
than those of A. psi, and with about 388 ribs (87-44) (A. psi, 
45-54). 
On only one occasion had he taken in Herefordshire any 
other form, and that was a large dark specimen in August, 
1892. Its eges were indistinguishable from those of A. psi, 
and had 49-52 ribs. The progeny was exceedingly uniform, 
and all like the example shown. ‘There was no difference in 
the larve of these two forms, although the eggs differed so 
decidedly, and of one the imago was so pale, and of the other 
dark as well as larger. 
Mr. Burr exhibited a Mantis, Phyllocrania illudens, from 
Madagascar, with a close resemblance to the dead leaves 
among which it lived, some of which were shown with it ; 
even the dried stem of the leaf was imitated by a curious 
twisted prolongation of the frons. 
A new British coccid, NWermes variegatus, Gmel., from 
Kent, was exhibited by Mr. Warernouse, who had found it on 
the twigs, near or on the buds of oak shrubs in a wood near 
Herne, Kent. 
Papers, 
Mr. G. C. Grirrirus read a paper on “ The Frenulum of the 
Lepidoptera.’”’ Mr. Kirkanpy communicated a ‘ Prelimin- 
ary Revision of the Notonectide, Part I.” ; and Mr. Water- 
HousE the ‘ Description of a new Coleopterous Insect of 
the family Pausside.”’ 
November 8rd, !897. 
Mr. R. Trimen, F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 
The PresmEent announced the death, on Oct. 15th, of Mr. 
J. W. Dunning, formerly Secretary and President of the 
Society, and referred to his constant interest in it and zeal 
for its welfare. 
The Treasurer also spoke in appreciation of Mr. Dunning’s 
repeated liberality towards the Society, especially at times of 
financial straits, and to his successful efforts in procuring 
the Royal Charter, the cost of which he had defrayed. 
