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Ceylon. The species is parthenogenetic, a male being pro- 

 duced only very occasionally. 



Mr. Turner exhibited a series of Glyphodes sinuata, a very 

 beautiful and delicate Pyrale of the sub-family PyvaustincB. 

 It came from the Ja River, Cameroons. 



Mr. Robert Adkin read a short paper entitled " Notes on 

 a Series of Boarmia repandata, with some Remarks upon the 

 Variation and Distribution of the Species in Britain," and 

 exhibited long series of the species in illustration of the 

 paper (p. i). 



Mr. Turner read the report of the visit which the Society 

 made to the Zoological Museum, Tring, on March 27th 

 (see p. 72). 



APRIL 22nd, 1909. 



Mr. Tonge exhibited the remains of a female Catocala 

 fraxini, taken on an old poplar trunk at Horsham, Sussex, 

 September 3rd, 1908, by Mr. A. James, of Tooting, with 

 some of the ova laid. The specimen was apparently a more 

 than usually dark example. 



Mr. West, of Ashtead, exhibited living specimens of the 

 larval stage of a stick insect {Dixippus morosus), and stated 

 that it fed readily on privet. 



Mr. Joy exhibited the pupa of Cyclopides palcBuion. He 

 stated that the larva hibernated full fed in mid October, 

 making a tent among the grass. In the spring it emerged, 

 wandered about, and at length pupated without feeding. 

 He also referred to the larvae of Brenthis euphrosyne, of which 

 he had about eighty in the autumn. Of these some forty- 

 hve were alive on March 15th, but after the severe weather 

 then experienced only twenty-five remained. These wandered, 

 but would not feed, and eventually most of them died ; only 

 two had as yet pupated, and two others were about to do so. 



Mr. Rayward exhibited the ova of Polygonia c-alhum, 

 found wild. They were all at the tip of a leaf and on the 

 upper surface. Only in one instance were there two ova on 

 one leaf. Mr. Tonge showed a beautiful stereoscopic slide 

 of the ova. 



Mr. Tonge read a paper, "The Resting Attitudes of 

 Insects," dealing chiefly with the position in which the 

 wings of butterflies and moths are held, and illustrating his 

 remarks with a large number of lantern-slides, many of them 

 taken during the field meetings of the Society (see p. 5). 



