( 6 ) 



posterior end, 1ml even when this came into contact with his 

 palate and tongue be gave no sign of tasting anything 

 disagreeable. The lizards were Lacerta viridis. There was a 

 saucer half full of mealworms in the lizards' cage, so there is 

 no reason to suppose thai they were specially hungry." 



Mr. Ei niiNGHASJ added that he was greatly indebted to Mr. 

 b for so carefully carrying out and recording the experi- 

 ment. The result appeared to show that the distasteful) i 

 the laj due to the particles of bhe foodplanl contained 



in the digestive tract. The inedibility, though not in thi 

 due to peculiar properties elaborated by the metabolism of the 

 larva, might nevertheless, under conceivable circumstances, 

 have considerable importance for the larva itself, 

 fulness must have a beginning, and so long ae it was a question 

 of surviving or being eaten, the fact rather than the 

 the inedibility would be of first importai 



Wednesday, June 1st, 1910. 



xli 

 E ROB in mi' ACCOUNT OF Mi'. Limn- BfiBBDlNG ExPEBI- 



mini with Chabaxi i 3 . Lond., 1909, p. xlix). 



Professor P>>i lton, I R 8., who was unable t<> be present, 

 -nit the follow ection of an unfortunate error which 



rept into the Proceedings of last year: — 



•■ Mr. Leigh is Btated, on p. slix, t<> have exhibited the $ 

 par«nt and 21 specimens of the offspring i I oolina 



ru anthes. 



" On the other hand, it is a I that 'the ova lep 



by the toolina form of the?. . . produced 1 ' '- and 2$ ?s 

 like the parent, and l."» .-" fsand ihea form, 1 



or 30 offspring in all. I have examined the specimens, which 

 are now in the Hope Department, and find 21 offspring, but 

 also observe that there are among them 6 and not 15 



mi. It Is to be hoped that this correction will 

 meet the eye of any naturalist who has been interested in the 

 published statement." 



