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a remarkable arachnid with extremely elongated processes from 

 the thorax, specimens of the huge chelifer, T/ii'bjphoniift hicanoides, 

 and another curious arachnid, (Tasteracantha rittata. He also 

 showed the fungus L'eziza hadia from Blackheath. 



Mr. Frohawk exhibited a remarkable specimen of a mole with 

 white spots and blotches about its fur ; a very large slow-worm, 

 measuring 17 inches in length, said to be the biggest on record. 

 It came from Wye, Kent. He mentioned an adder which measured 

 28 inches, a female, from which some twenty young were taken ; 

 and showed a thorny branch of an apple tree which had grown 

 from a pip planted some nine years ago. 



Mr. C. Brooks exhibited a piece of Eoman brick from Silchester, 

 showing footprints of both dog and sheep; a piece of wood (beech?) 

 bored by marine worms, which had since become fossilised ; and a 

 piece of pine from the foot of a glacier (Norway) showing the 

 twisting and grinding caused by the moving ice. 



MAY 8th, 1913. 



Mr. E. B. Haynes, of Wimbledon, was elected a member. 



Mi. H. E. Page exhibited a short series of Erehia zajtateii, taken 

 in ISpain last year, which he was placing in the Society's cabinet. 



Mr. Hugh Main exhibited a small cage Avith two living field- 

 crickets, which had been brought from Lisbon, where people were 

 in the habit of keeping these insects for their " singing." One of 

 the crickets gave an exhibition of his power in the room. 



Mr. A. E. Tonge exhibited a fine spike of flowers of the water- 

 violet, Hottonia palimtris, which is not a "violet," but a species of 

 Priiiiidaceir. The plant is a sub-aquatic and grows in still-water 

 ditches. The specimen came from near Ashford, where it was more 

 or less common. 



Mr. J. Piatt Barrett exhibited the larva and pupa of a Thera 

 feeding on spruce, and presumed that it was the true T. variata. 

 He also showed two extremely fine saturniids sent to him in a letter 

 from Nairobi, British East Africa. 



Mr. A. Sich exhibited a number of species of Rhopalocera taken 

 in the South Tyrol, including Papilio wachaon, P. podalirius, Libi/thea 

 celtis (which was abundant there), Scolitaiitides orion, Glancopsyche 

 iolas, etc. 



Mr. Sich then read a paper entitled, " Spring in the South Tyrol." 

 (See page 7.) 



