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the eggs developed in the ovaries. He also mentioned that Gra- 

 phiphora snbrosea had been recently captured at Whittlesea Mere, 

 thus proving it to be indigenous ; which was the more interesting, 

 as it agrees in the structure of the antennae with a North American 

 group of which there is no other European representative. Deiopeia 

 pulchella had also been captured at Epping at the end of September. 

 He also stated that the larva of PoUa occulta feeds upon species of 

 Polygonum, and not on the dandelion as represented by some authors. 



Mr. Hope stated that two specimens of Catocala Fraxini had been 

 taken at Southend. 



The following papers were read : — 



Extracts from a letter addressed to Mr, Westwood by Captain 

 Hutton, containing a series of observations on the Indian species of 

 Papilio. 



Extracts from 9. letter addressed to Mr. Westwood by R. Tem- 

 pleton, Esq., containing notices of some of the Lepidoptera of Ceylon. 



The completion of Mr. Savage's memoir on the driver ants was 

 also read. 



Mr. E. Doubleday, in allusion to the two former communications, 

 stated his belief that Papilio Panope and similis are the sexes of one 

 species ; also that P. Pammon and Polytes are varieties of one 

 species, as affirmed by Boisduval ; and that the insects regarded as 

 the two species, P. Epius and Demo/eus, by Captain Hutton, were 

 the sexes of one species (as indeed Mr. Templeton had stated in his 

 letter) . 



November 2nd.— The Rev. F. W, Hope, F.R.S., President, in the 



Chair. 



Mr. Newport exhibited a box of Coleoptera, &c. from Melbourne, 

 South Australia, including a large new species of Eucranium ?, Ce- 

 rapterus Hopii, &c. ; and also a sjjccies of Blatta of which the left 

 hind leg had evidently been reproduced, being smaller than the other. 

 Instances of the rej^roduction of the antennae, but not of the feet, 

 had hitherto been noticed in this group. 



Mr. Griffith stated that he had observed during the preceding 

 autumn, on one small spot of woody ground at Addington Hiil near 

 Croydon, a very great number of specimens of Cynthia Cardia. 



Captain Frend stated that he had found Vanessa Urticce alone in 

 some quantity on the summit of the Sierra Novada in Spain, 16,000 

 feet above the level of the sea. 



Mr. Weaver exhibited a new British Noctua allied to Hadena 

 adusta, and other rare Lepidoptera from Perthshire. 



Mr. F. Bond exhibited a living specimen of Sphinx Atropos, and 

 stated that he was convinced that the cry emitted by this insect was 

 not produced by the moveable appendages at the sides of the thorax, 

 as he had found that the noise was equally strong w^hen the sides of 

 the thorax were violently compressed and held tight. Mr. Newport, 

 who had also examined the insect whilst alive, stated that in his 

 opinion the noise was either produced by the lateral friction of the 

 parts of the spiral tongue (maxillae) against each other, or by their 



