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he had observed the species, unfortunately without being able 

 to capture it. Coloured drawings of the larva painted by 

 Lady Blake, and lent by Mrs. E. M. Swainson of Baltimore, 

 U.S.A., were also exhibited, and Mrs. Swainson, who was 

 present as a visitor, said that she was the only person who 

 had found the larva. Giving some account of the life-history, 

 she mentioned that it did not expose, in the larval state, 

 the prominent eye markings, as, for instance, do some of the 

 Choerocampidaj, and for that reason probably it had escaped 

 observation. 



Mr. Dannatt also exhibited three new butterflies figured 

 and described by him in the " Entomologist " of the current 

 year, viz. Cldorippe yodinani, from Venezuela, Monethe johnstoni, 

 from British Guiana, and Delias hempeli, from Gilolo, said by 

 Dr. Dicksee to be a mimic of the only species of Bdenois 

 found in that island. 



Dr. T. A. Chapman exhibited for Mr. Hugh Main a speci- 

 men of Arctia caja, bred this year, which he said was a 

 teratological specimen such as he had never seen or met with, 

 or, so far as he could recollect at the moment, had ever heard 

 or read of. The insect had a three-fold hind-wing on the left 

 side ; not three wings of more or less imperfect development, 

 as is not a very rare malfoimation ; but the wing was at first 

 glance a normal wing, and so far as the costa was concerned 

 was apparently quite normal. Immediately below the costa, 

 however, the wing divided into three layers, each of which 

 was apparently a normal wing so far as form, colour and 

 markings went, but which, when the insect was alive, were so 

 closely applied to each other as to look like one normal wing, 

 till by blowing between them or in some other way they were 

 separated. The larval and pupal skins had not been presei'ved 

 with it. Mr. Main was placing the specimen in the terato- 

 logical collection in the British Museum, South Kensington. 

 The President said he had no recollection of such a specimen 

 being recorded. 



Mr. F. Merrifield exhibited some pods, each of about three 

 inches in length, in shape like the extended letter S, slender 

 and tapering at the extremities, which he had found, late in 

 August, attached to a slightly axiomatic shrub growing on the 



