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ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. 



FEBRUARY loth, 1910. 



Mr. x\. SiCH, F.E.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The deaths of two members, Mr. Kirkaidy and Mr. 

 McArthur, were announced. 



Mr. Robert Adlcin exhibited a short series of Nola albnlalis 

 reared from East Sussex ova. The ova hatched August 5th, 

 igog ; the larvae were fed upon wild raspberry, pupated at the 

 end of September, and the moths appeared between October 

 31st and November 7th of the same year, thus, in confine- 

 ment, producing a second generation (see " Proceedings," 

 igog-io, p. 41). 



Mr. T. W. Hall exhibited the two-horned seed-vessels of 

 a species of Martynia from South Africa, which, according 

 to Lord Avebury and Dr. Livingstone, are most formidable 

 to the larger wild animals, attaching themselves to the skins of 

 lions and buffaloes during their rolhng about the dry plains. 

 They are said even to cause the death of lions when they 

 become attached to the mouth or nostrils. During the 

 attachment the seed-vessel splits open, and the seeds drop 

 out and are thus distributed over a large area. 



Mr. Hy. J. Turner exhibited a very brilliant species of the 

 Lyccsnidcs, Danis taygetes, from Brisbane, given him by Dr. 

 T. P. Lucas, who, previous to his going to Australia some thirty 

 years ago, was a member of the Society. The species was 

 very markedly sexually dimorphic. 



Mr. J. P. Barrett exhibited a box of conspicuous insects 

 of various orders from near Messina, Sicily, including a 

 mole cricket, of which specimens were continually met with 

 in unexpected places, even indoors ; large beetles, often seen 

 on flowers and attracted by light ; ant lions, etc. He also 

 showed a specimen of Pieris brassicce, which he had observed 

 apparently fastened down to a flower head, but which had 

 been captured and damaged by a species of Mantis. 



