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JANUARY gih, 1902. 



Mr. W. J. Lucas, B.A., F.E.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Tonge, of Red Hill, Surrey, was elected a member. 



Mr. Hewitt exhibited a specimen of the scarce Homopteron 

 Cicadetta montana, caught flying in the sunshine in Stubby 

 Copse, New Forest, on July 7th, igoi, 



Mr. Robt. Adkin exhibited five specimens of Melanippe 

 galiata that emerged from pupae on December 8th last. The 

 ova were deposited between August 22nd and 27th, they 

 hatched between 2gth of that month and September 6th, 

 and the larvae went to earth between September 24th 

 and October 13th. No emergences took place until 

 December 8th, when the five perfect examples now ex- 

 hibited and one cripple came forth ; nor have any others 

 appeared since. The cage in which the larvae were fed up, 

 and in which the pupae have since been kept, has throughout 

 been exposed to the weather, except so far as being protected 

 from both rain and direct sunshine. The temperature at the 

 time was very uniform and mild, the range between the day 

 max. and night min. being only 3°, viz. 55° and 52° respectively. 



Mr. McArthur exhibited several specimens of Triphcena 

 comes, bred on December 26th and 27th, igoi, from ova laid 

 by a female taken in July, 1901, in the Isle of Lewis. One 

 specimen was of a very rich deep red ground colour, and 

 another had a wide brilliant red submarginal line on the 

 very dark ground of the fore-wings. 



Mr. E. Step read some notes on the nightjar {Capri mid giis 

 eiiropcEus), and exhibited lantern photographs of the eggs and 

 young birds. He expressed the opinion that the colouring 

 of both eggs and birds was protective. He had been so 

 fortunate as to secure a photograph of the two chicks im- 

 mediately after they had emerged from the eggs, whilst the 

 shells were still wet and present ; another photograph showed 

 the same birds when two days old, and others depicted an 

 older example couching among heath plants and on the limb 

 of an oak. The newly hatched birds hissed when handled, 

 and on a peculiar call from the mother-bird at a distance 

 they darted among the heather stems, going in opposite 

 directions. They were able to fly a hundred yards when 

 fourteen days old. 



Mr. Lucas exhibited a few slides illustrative of particular 

 natural objects in the south-west district, including the 



