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Mr. H. Moore exhibited a living spocimen of the large orthop- 

 teron /Er/rntiis jihi/niat/nis, which had recently been brought from 

 South Africa. 



Mr. J. Piatt Barrett exhibited (1) ova-shells of Melanargia 

 pJierKsa and small larva? of the saiiie species, obtained by him in 

 Sicily this year. (2) Living larv^ of a beetle which was in some 

 abundance in his son's garden in Messina, (b) Several mole- 

 crickets, Gn/llotalpa ndijaris, from Sicily. (4) A large species of 

 centipede from the same locality. 



Mr. W. West exhibited examples of oak leaves which were 

 infested with the P/u/lloa-era jnmctata. 



Mr. E. Step exhibited several species of living rhynchota, in- 

 cluding Pcdiojmis tilid, Psi/lldpsis frcvini, P. fra.vinicnla, and the 

 beech aphis [Pltyllajihk ffu/i), all from Ashtead. The last named 

 was shown in various stages, from very young nymphs to the 

 imago ; the nymphs being remarkable for the blue-tinged white 

 woolly excreta with which they are more or less covered, which 

 makes it difficult to distinguish the individuals of a colony. The 

 larger nymphs have long trails of this material. Another feature 

 is the accumulation on the leaf of large globules of liquid excreta 

 (" honeydew ") whose suj'face is covered with a bluish powder, 

 apparently of wax, which appears to prevent the liquid from run- 

 ning. It was interesting to see the way in which several blood-red 

 nymphs of the bug, Anthncon'^ si/lvrstria, ran about the leaves with 

 the proboscis extended in front and spearing the P. fa<ii nymphs 

 with it. 



Mr. R. Adkin exhibited a series of Celastruia [Cijaniria) arf/vdus, 

 reared between March 25th and May 24th last, from larvae taken 

 on the flower-buds of ivy at Eastbourne, in September, 1913. The 

 females, as a rule, followed the usual spring form in having the 

 black borders of the forewings comparatively narrow, but in one 

 example they were broader and continued around the anal angle, 

 thus closely approaching the usual form of the autumn emergence. 

 In one specimen the lower of the outer pair of costal spots of the 

 hindwings on the underside was elongated. (See " Proc," 1913-4, 

 p. 132.) 



Mr. Hy. J. Turner exhibited the whole of the plates of the four 

 volumes of Eosel's " Insekten Belustigung," 1746(2)-1761, and of 

 Kleemann's additional volume, bound together, with an autograph 

 letter of William Spence (Kirby and Spence), December, 1812, 

 thanking Captain Machell for the loan of the volume, which he had 

 kept for such a long time. 



