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stamens. Each is composed of about a dozen slender fila- 

 ments tipped with green spherical glands. 



Dr. Chapman exhibited specimens of Arctia fasciata, a 

 very beautiful species bred from larvae taken in Spain. 



Mr. Main exhibited a long series of photographs of the 

 life history and stages in the metamorphoses of Char axes 

 jasius. (See Plates IV and V.) 



Mr. Step exhibited a white flowered specimen of the large 

 knapweed (Centaurea scabiosa), which had been sent to him 

 from Eastbourne by Mr. R. Adkin. He also showed a very 

 aberrant flower-spike of the larger plantain (Plantago major), 

 in which the bracts of the flowers on the spike were much 

 enlarged, others forming a rosette of leaves at the top of the 

 long stem below the spike. 



Mr. R. South, on behalf of Mr. Sweeting, exhibited a 

 specimen of Lyccena (Agriadcs) corydon ab. syngrapha from 

 Surrey. 



Mr. J. W. Tutt read a paper on the " Egg laying of the 

 Brenthids," and a considerable discussion took place (printed 

 in " Ent. Record," 1907, p. 231). 



Mr. Main remarked that he had placed a female of Epine- 

 phclc tiihonus under a glass cylinder on the lawn, and that 

 the eggs were laid not on the food stuff but in the holes in 

 the perforated zinc cover. 



On the habits of Brenthis {Argynnis) euphrosyne in the wild 

 state Mr. Newman observed that in West Sussex it flies in 

 the rides cut for shooting in the woods, and is especially 

 abundant where wood has been cut down the previous year. 

 In captivity it lays its ova mostly on the gauze sides of the 

 box, few ever being laid on the food plant. The larvas feed 

 slowly till about the first week in September, when they 

 commence to hibernate among dead leaves and rubbish. 

 They wake up early in the spring and feed rapidly. With 

 regard to B. selene, it is also common in West Sussex, and 

 frequents the clearings in the same woods as does B. euphrosyne. 

 In Devon its habits are different, for there it frequents open 

 meadows and roadsides, and flies along the lanes. In 

 captivity it has the same habits in egg-laying as the former 

 species, but does not grow so much before hibernating. 



Dr. Chapman remarked that he had observed last summer 

 that the females of B. selene laid very sparingly on leaves of 

 violet, but much more freely on the net in which they were 

 enclosed. He asked Mr. Tutt how he regarded this habit in 

 relation to that of Argynnis (aglaia, paphia, etc.) of not laying 

 on the food plant. Was Brenthis leading up to Argynnis, or 



