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upon a good-sized grasshopper, and try to get away with it 

 into a hole in the wall. It slipped downwards two or three 

 feet, but stuck fast to its prey, and eventually disappeared. 



" Caterpillars are not much in evidence. I noticed some 

 on a species of heath on Monte Ciccio, but left them to grow 

 bigger. I think they may belong to a species allied to 

 Lasiocampa qucrcm. During the winter I am not expecting 

 many other species of butterfly to turn up, but shall look 

 forward hopefully to the spring." 



DECEMBER 10th, 1908. 



Dr. Hodgson exhibited a number of species of Lepidoptera 

 from N. Queensland, including a fine series of Papilio ulysses, 

 male and female, P. sarpedon, Delias nigridius, and D. nysa, 

 Cethosia cydippc, species of Cyaniris, and several of the bril- 

 liant genus Danis, among them being D. celestis, D. illustris, 

 and D. scbae. 



Mr. H. W. Andrews exhibited a species of Ichneumon, 

 Bassus Icctatorius, female, which had been bred from Syrphus 

 balteatus, a Dipteron. 



Mr. Ray ward exhibited the ova of Tiliacea citrago, on the 

 leaf scars of lime, which he had found by searching. They 

 were all but one of exactly the same colour as the twig, and 

 most difficult to distinguish. 



Mr. Robert Adkin exhibited a female specimen of Lyccena 

 bellargus, strongly marked with blue scaling, taken near 

 Eastbourne in September last, in which the red lunules, 

 usually present in the border markings of the upper surface 

 of the hind-wings, were absent ; together with other speci- 

 mens taken at the same time for comparison. Commenting 

 upon the exhibit, he said that it would be seen that the 

 absence of the red pigment from the lunules gave the insect 

 a very unusual appearance, and, in his experience, this form 

 was rarely met with. He further stated that the capture of 

 several specimens showing a considerable amount of blue 

 scaling, this autumn, had led him to alter his opinion, 

 previously expressed, that these blue females were more 

 often met with in the spring emergence and on the North 

 Downs, as he had seldom found specimens more strongly 

 marked in this respect than those taken this year of the 

 second emergence on the South Downs ; and he was forced 

 to the conclusion that some other circumstance than locality 



