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communicated the following notes upon them. " The large spider, 

 Mj/gale aviciilaria, was sent to me from India. These spiders do 

 not spin a web, but lie in wait in crevices and holes for their prey, 

 which consists of insects, and occasionally small birds. You will 

 observe the formidable fangs attached to the mandibles, also the 

 eight eyes on the upper part of the cephalothorax. In my small 

 case is a representation of the life-history of the Colorado beetle, 

 Doryphora lineata, from the ova to imago with intermediate 

 stages." 



Mr. W. West (Greenwich) exhibited the following species of 

 Coleoptera and Hemiptera : — A series oi Asemuin striatum and var. 

 aijreste taken in pine stumps in the New Forest in June ; a male 

 and two females of the very rare Monohannnus sartor, cut from 

 spruce fir in a workshop at Deptford ; AcocepJtalus tricinctns, a 

 male and four females taken in the saltmarshes at Great Yarmouth, 

 and one of Mr. J. Edwards' recent additions to the British List ; a 

 series of Plauior/nathiis albipennis, ohta,meA horn Artendsia maritima 

 at Great Yarmouth ; Armspus pulchellus, taken at the roots of reeds 

 at Great Yarmouth ; and a series of Chlorina (jlaucescens on reeds at 

 the same locality. 



On behalf of Mr. Carr, Mr. West exhibited the two species of 

 grasshopper, Stenobothrus bicolor and Platijcleis bracJujptera, from 

 Oxshott. 



Mr. Stanley Blenkarn exhibited the Coleopteron, Quediiis vexans, 

 taken from moles' nests in the Isle of Wight, and described recently 

 as new to science. He also exhibited a double-banded example of 

 Noctua rubi taken at Beckenham on August 30th, 1910, together 

 with a suffused single-banded specimen taken at Beckenham on 

 August 1st, 1911. 



Mr. Dods exhibited the living larva and an imago of the 

 large silk-producing Saturniid Platysamia cecropia, and also 

 Anthrocera filipendaUe and Dryas paphia from Hailsham, Sussex. 



Mr. Carr exhibited specimens of the local tiger beetle, Cicindela 

 sylvatica, from Oxshott. 



Mr. Stanley Edwards exhibited a box containing several species 

 of the genus Libythea, and contributed the following notes: — The 

 twelve or fourteen species of this Sub-family, which it hardly 

 appears necessary to divide into genera, are singularly scattered 

 over all the warmer parts of the globe, except, I believe, the 

 continent of Australia and Polynesia. The type of the genus 

 Libythea celtis, Puessly, inhabits South Europe and Asia Minor. 

 The Ethiopian region has three species, India and the Indo- 



