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ago, when it was found in some numbers but very local. Mr. 

 Adkin said it was found at Chalfont Road, but was local and 

 confined to one portion of one wood. The President and 

 Mr. McArthur had both found A. grossiilariata to be exceed- 

 ingly local in Stornoway. 



Mr. Kirkaldy exhibited specimens of the lantern-flies 

 Pyrops candelarius from China, and P. maculaUis from 

 Ceylon, and contributed the following note : — Mr. Fletcher 

 has been good enough to send me a copy of his observations 

 on this insect, recorded at the time in his journal : — Some- 

 times they were on the trunk (of the tree), with which they 

 harmonise very well, and sometimes high up in the branches; 

 in the latter case they are easily beaten out, and then fly 

 quite a distance, their vivid yellow hind wings rendering 

 them very conspicuous on the wing. ... A tree at the top 

 of the (Botanical) Gardens (at Hong Kong), with a Chinese 

 coolie gesticulating under it, attracted Mr. Fletcher's atten- 

 tion, and he found a pair of candelarius settled on a branch, 

 with whose environment they harmonised well. Mr. Fletcher 

 insists on the harmony of candelarius with its environment, 

 but Mr. E. E. Green's account of the Singhalese maculatus is 

 very different. " Our Pyrops maculatus is a very conspicuous 

 insect when at rest, and takes no measures to conceal itself, 

 trusting to its marvellous agility " (E. E. Green in Hit., 

 August 22nd, 1900). 



Mr. Burr called attention to the evasive habits of many 

 grasshoppers. The active species, especially males, would 

 leap and then fly, the heavy females would burrow under 

 grass and debris, while the smaller species would walk 

 round to the further side of the stems they v/ere upon. 



Mr. Manger exhibited a number of species of Odonata, 

 Ascalaphus, and Myrmeleons. 



MARCH 28t/i, 1 90 1. 



Mr. H. S. Fremlix, F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Alf. Sich exhibited specimens of Goniodovia limoniella 

 (anroguttella), a species closely allied to the genus Coleophora, 

 of which the larva quits the case when about to pupate ; 

 some species of the genus Coleophora, including C. deaura- 

 tella, C. frischclla, C. alcyonipennella, C. ochrca, C. vibicella, 

 and C. salicornice, of which the last also quits its case to 

 pupate, together with Gclechia tenebrclla, a moth bearing a 



