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Schulze's " Nomenclator animalium generum et subgenerum.'' 

 He explained that the Society had no funds that could be 

 drawn on for such a purpose, but pointed out the importance 

 of the subject in case any individual Fellows should be willing 

 to support the undertaking. 



Offer from University College. 



The Secretary read a letter from Prof. J. P. Hill of 

 the Zoological Department of University College, London, 

 saying that the Collection of British Lepidoptera formed by 

 the late Mr. John A. Finzi, F.E.S., had been presented to the 

 College, and that he would be glad to afford facilities to any 

 Fellow of the Entomological Society who wished to consult it, 

 on presentation of a card signed by one of the Secretaries, 

 between 2 and 5 p.m., on any day except Saturday when the 

 College was in Session. 



The Secretary was instructed to return thanks to him on 

 behalf of the Society. 



Exhibitions. 



Mantid Oothecae. — Mr. Waterhouse exhibited a diagram 

 of the ootheca of a Mantis and read the following note : — 



At the last meeting of this Society Mr. Janson exhibited 

 and made some remarks on one of the spherical semitrans- 

 pai^ent oothecae of a Mantis from Africa. Having since 

 examined similar ones in the Natural History Museum, I 

 thought some notes on them might be useful. The structure 

 of the ootheca of i/«n^?'sre%«osa has been very fairly described 

 by Giardina (Naturalista Siciliano n.s.,ii,p. 141), and Kershaw 

 has given an excellent account of a Chinese species, Hierodula 

 saitssurei (Psyche xvii, p. 136). This latter consists of a 

 number of ilask-shaped sacks each containing a number of 

 eggs. These sacks are placed alternately right and left, and 

 in part one behind the other, the whole enclosed in a mass of 

 frothy matter forming an outer case as shown in my diagi'am. 

 At first sight the African one appears to be differently 

 constructed, but on closer examination is found to be very 

 similar. When viewed in transverse section the eggs are 

 seen to be at right angles to the septum to which they are 



