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Acridiine Orthopteron horn the Benguella Plateau, taken 

 by Dr. Chas. H. Martin, F.R.S., which bore a very perfect 

 resemblance to the 6corched grass stems, on one of which it 

 was resting, the grass in this region being burnt off each 

 season by the natives, leaving chaired tufts and stubble. Mr. 

 Bacot also exhibited specimens of the Dipteron Glossina 

 palp ids, var. wellmani, Austen, from Catumbella River. 



Gigantic Larvae. — Mr. Eltringham exhibited two speci- 

 mens of an unusually large Lasiocampid larva which had 

 been presented to the Hope Department by Mr. C. A. Foster, 

 who took them in Sierra Leone. A similar larva had been 

 illustrated in the " Entomologist" for May 1886, though this 

 specimen was stated to have come from South Africa. It was 

 unfortunate that Mr. Foster only obtained the larvae on the 

 eve of his departure for Kngland, so that he could not keep 

 them alive. They were covered, in addition to the hairs, 

 with loug sharp spines, which made them very unpleasant to 

 handle. The spines were quite smooth but very sharply 

 pointed. Each larva was about seven inches in length. 

 Prof. Poulton suggested that the larvae might perhaps 

 be Gonometa tinhfuaria, Walk., or G. reyia, Auriv. The 

 females of both these species had enormous bodies, and 

 although the moths looked small beside the caterpillars, 

 such apparent want of proportion was common among the 

 Lamoeampidae. 



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Prof. PoULTON read a paper by G. BE. D. Carpenter, 

 B.A., B.M., B.Ch., F.E.S., on The Life-History of Pseudacraea 

 eunjhis hobleyi, Neave, and in giving an account of Dr. 



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 Carpenter's work read the following letter written by the 

 author on June lGth, 191l', from Bugalla in the Sesse Islands. 



"I feel I can almost say, as did Oharles Kingsley, 'At 

 Last!' To-day, being a sunny morning after many wet 

 mornings (this month so far has been as wet as any of the 

 three preceding, which is unusual) I went butterflying. I 

 saw a few freshly emerged Pseudacraeas, and secured three 

 terra which 1 send, hoping you will be able to set them in 



