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MAY 25th, 1911. 



Mr. R. Adkin, F.E.S., in the Chair. 



Mr. Hugh Main exhibited a living female Scorpion which he had 

 just received from the W. Indies. He stated that the Scorpions 

 were viviparous, and that during the journey several young ones 

 had been produced. It was said that these young were placed 

 by the female on her own back, and that she carried them thus 

 for some weeks. Ab the present time there were two of the living 

 young on the back of the mother. 



Mr. West called attention to the Society's Collection of Coleoptera 

 w^hich he was exhibiting, the cleaning and resetting of which he 

 had now completed. x\t the same time he wished to thank Messrs. 

 Ashby and Ashdown for the numerous additions which they had 

 made to the collection during the past year. 



Mr. H. Moore exhibited some Coleoptera just received from the 

 Orange River Colony, two or three specimens of which were still 

 living, in spite of their six weeks' journey. He also showed a 

 Sea-urchin from the West African coast. It belonged to the 

 extremely compressed section, with very strong lateral teeth-like 

 projections on one edge. It was afterwards found to be a species 

 of liotida. 



Mr. Edwards exhibited a specimen of the dry-rot fungus, 

 M.eridiiis lacrt/nians, which he had found at Blackheath. 



Mr. Step, on behalf of Mr. Hy. J. Turner, exhibited a specimen of 

 the rare Crucifer, I>entaiia bnlhifera from Beaconsfield, where it had 

 been found in some local abundance. He pointed out the curious 

 black bulbils in the axils of the leaves. These were the principal 

 method of reproduction, as the seeds rarely ripen. The flowers 

 had fallen and the long siliqute characteristic of the family were 

 just formed. 



Mr. R. iVdkin exhibited a series of Ni/ssia zonaria reared from 

 Wallasey parents. The larvas were fed up in 1909 (" Proc. S. 

 Lond. Ent. Soc," 1909, p. 87), and in the following spring ten 

 moths emerged, all of them females ; but the larger number of the 

 pupa? remained over to the spring of the present year, when 45 

 moths emerged, 29 of them being males and 16 females. He 

 called attention to some small points of variation in the series, 

 four of the specimens being much paler than the others, and in 

 another the dark grey transverse lines of the median area of the 

 forewings were united towards the inner margin, thus forming an 



