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kindly lent by the Society for the Protection of Birds, were 

 then exhibited. They consisted of coloured copies of the 

 plates in Lord Lilford's " British Birds," many admirable 

 studies of the nests and habits of birds by Mr. E. B. Lodge, 

 together with a few pakeontological and artistic slides. 



APRIL i2th, 1900. 



Mr. F. NoAU Clark, in the Chair. 



Mr. Browne, of Lee, was elected a member. 



Mr. Edwards exhibited a living specimen of a scorpion, 

 Scurpiu curopcem, sent him b}' Dr. Chapman from the neigh- 

 bourhood of Cannes. It fed readily upon cockroaches. 



Mr. Sich exhibited several larvae of Coleophora lincolea 

 found feeding on Ballota nigra at Chiswdck. The lozenge- 

 shaped hairy cases were well developed. 



Mr. Clark exhibited photomicrographs of: (i) the ova of 

 Eugoiiia fuscantaria, received from Mr. Prideaux, of Reigate, 

 and called attention to the serrations, which were particularly 

 well shown ; (2) the ova of Geonietra vernavia, and remarked 

 on the curious method of deposition in piles, one side of the 

 pile showing a row of pits from whence had issued the 

 larvae ; and (3) the ova of Nenronia popularis, which were 

 irregularly strewn when deposited. 



Mr. Colthrup exhibited a specimen of Boinbyx qiievcns, 

 which resembled var. calluncc. It was bred from a larva 

 obtained at Addington in Surrey. 



Mr. Tutf gave a short lecture on the Lachneids (Lasio- 

 campids), and pointed out the peculiarity of the superfamily 

 as a whole, in the oval, larval, pupal, and imaginal stages. 

 He entered into considerable details on those questions, 

 which presented difficulties in the true appreciation of their 

 relationships, and pointed out the peculiarities of the egg- 

 laying of the Malacosomas, Lachneids {sens, strict.), and stated 

 that in his opinion our British species all belonged to 

 different genera except ncustria and castrensis, and possibly 

 to several different families. He stated that the genus 

 Metanastria as used in the British Museum, appeared to 

 cover several genera, and included the majority of the most 

 generalised genera at the base of the Eutrichid and Lasio- 

 campid stems, and that the present arrangement of the 

 genera in the British Museum collections was from the 

 modern standpoint deplorable. He also discussed the 



