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side. A 3rd male grasped a wing of t lie female so firmly 

 with bis legs that the membrane was crumpled up : he re- 

 mained motionless. The 4th male grasped and crumpled up 

 the opposite wing in a similar way, all the time making efforts 

 to obtain hold of any portion at all of her anatomy with his 

 olaspers." 



The Cocoons and Eggs ok the Bombtoid Moth, Norasuma 

 kolga, Dkuce. — Prof. Poulton exhibited the cocoon of iY. 

 kotga together with the moth which had emerged from it. 

 The compact cocoon itself was reddish, with an outer imperfect 

 covering of yellow .silk. In some cocoons, including the one 

 exhibited, the silk of this loose and open network formed 

 dense little misses here and there which, being bright yellow 



in colour, much resembled the coc< 3 of Braconid parasites. 



Prof. Poulton had written to Mr. Lamborn to Inquire whether 

 structures were always present in the natural state, as 

 it seenii-d possible that the loose covering had been lost in 

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the manipulation of some of the artificially bred specimens. 

 Prof. Poulton also exhibited a wall-like mass of egg-shells in 

 which the arrangement to "break joint," as described by 

 Mr. Lamborn, was clearly visible. This keen observer had 

 written, An;:. 28th, 1911 — 



" \ on will see, by egg shells now Bent, how wonderfully the 

 re disposed— in the form of a little wall, the eggs being 



m rows above the other and ea laced so as to 



cover the adjacent halves of two eggs below it. There is a 

 tine opalescence too about the egg muss in a good light." 



These specimens together with the remainder of those 



exhibited by Prof. Poulton were obtained by Mr. Lamborn 



at, or near, ( >ni ( lamp. 



The Spherical Bodies on hik Cocoons of the Hypsid 

 Moth Deilehera antinobii, Oberth., btc. Prof. Pol 

 exhibited a large family of these moths -80 in number — 

 together with their female parent, and 67 of the cocoons from 

 which they had emerged. The exhibit had been recently 

 receive! from Mr. W. A. Lamborn, who had bred the moths 

 from eggs laid Aug. 13-18, 1911. Concerning the habits of 

 the larva Mr. Lamborn had written, Sept. 19th — 



