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" August 27th. — Several pupae were now quite blackened 

 and the abdominal segments were much elongated, such as 

 one is accustomed to notice when a pupa contains an 

 ichneumon. 



" August 28th. — The first imago appeared. 



" September 30th. — Out of thirty-six larvae which were 

 fed up and pupated successfully, thirty-one perfect imagines 

 and three cripples were reared, two pupae only dying. When 

 it was noticed that the pupas were nearly ready to emerge 

 they were several times each day moistened with the breath. 

 The pupae were kept indoors in a room facing nearly N. 



" The imagines mvariably remained quiet for twenty-four 

 hours after emergence, but were very restless if kept alive 

 longer. They had a very large quantity of a blue-black fluid 

 in their abdomen at emergence, some of which was left in 

 the pupa-case and some was scattered about the cage. 

 There remained, however, in all of them a considerable 

 amount of this emergal liquid, which they got rid of with 

 considerable force, when they were dropped somewhat 

 violently on to the table." 



Mr. Lucas exhibited a very large number of lantern slides 

 to illustrate his remarks on " Entomological Localities." 

 They were chiefly of well-known spots in the New Forest. 

 Mr. West, of Streatham, also showed a few slides taken from 

 several localities nearer London. 



MARCH 2-jtJ!, 1902. 



Mr. F. NoAD Clark, President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Stanley Edwards exhibited (i) a flower spike of Saxi- 

 fraga crassifolia, a Siberian plant, from a garden at Barnet 

 (it was stated that the sparrow prevented the flowering of 

 this plant in the London parks and gardens) ; (2) very fine 

 male and female specimens of the genus Ornithoptera, O. 

 boriinanni, O.naias, and 0. critou, from the Malay Archipelago, 

 and a male of the rare 0. plateni from New Guinea ; (3) a 

 collection of Hemiptera Heteroptera received from M. Mar- 

 tandon, of Bucharest, comprising seventeen genera and 

 eighty-five species, representative of all parts of the world ; 

 (4) a well-preserved fossil of a fern frond from West Point, 

 North America. 



