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Exemption from Rates. 
The TREASURER read a letter from Mr. Chambers Leete, 
Town Clerk, Kensington, giving the Society the benefit of the 
Friendly Societies Act 1843, exempting it from the payment 
of Rates. 
Exhibitions, ete. 
Mr. A. Dicxsrr exhibited an analysis of 50 specimens of 
Papilio ascolius. 
(1) Front Wing Variations —Subapical cell spot large, 8; 
subapical cell spot small, 10; streak in cell yellow, large and 
clear, 10; streak in cell small and clouded, 9; streak in 
cell orange, 2; streak in cell extends below cell at one point 
only, 1; streak in cell at three points, 2; all 3 spots beyond 
cell present, 7; No. 2 spot missing, 43; Nos. 1 and 2 spots 
missing, 5; discal spots large, 9; discal spots small, 6; 
nebulous marks at hind angle, 5; 
(2) Hind Wing Variations—Black margin meets cell, 13; 
black margin does not meet cell, 37; nebulous sub-marginal 
spots, 1; two front yellow spots dusted with black, 3; dis- 
tinct black spot under costal streak, 2; least orange, 4. 
» (8) Underside Hind Wing.—Spot behind costal black 
streak, 28; costal streak very small, 2; orange brown all 
over, 22; very light, 4. 
THE SUPERLINGUAE OR PARAGLOSSAE OF INSECTS.— 
Dr. GAHAN said that as he was unable to be present at the 
meeting when it was read, he should like to offer some remarks 
on Dr. G. C. Crampton’s paper which appeared in the last 
issue of the Transactions of the Society. It had to do with 
at least one very interesting and important question; for on 
a correct interpretation of the structures known as the super- 
linguae or paraglossae would depend to a great extent what 
views should be taken in regard to the number of segments 
in the insect’s head, and the position of the insects in relation 
to other Arthropoda. Vaysierre, from his investigation of 
them in a May-fly larva, was, he believed, the first to suggest 
that the paraglossae represented a distinct pair of head- 
appendages. That view, however, met with little acceptance 
before the publication, in 1893, of the important paper by 
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