88 

 APRIL loth. 1902. 



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



Mr. Main exhibited a twig of hawthorn gathered in the 

 New Forest at Easter, having a large cluster of the eggs of 

 Eriogastcr lanestris, and remarked upon the curious spiral 

 arrangement in which they were deposited and the amount 

 of woolly covering over and around them. 



Rev. J. F. Perry exhibited a considerable number of 

 insects from South Africa, including a large and conspicuous 

 ant-lion ; several species of cockroach ; a mantis with 

 clusters of eggs found on the gum trees ; a very large Hemi- 

 pteron, and a species which had a considerable portion of its 

 abdomen bitten away when captured, and which seemed in 

 no way inconvenienced thereby ; numerous species of Coleo- 

 ptera, chiefly Longicorns, one species of which had stridu- 

 lating organs at the back of the pronotum ; together with 

 several species of scorpions and spiders. 



Mr. Moore exhibited the following species of exotic 

 Blattidse : — Blabera gigantea and Monachoda laticollis (Costa 

 Rica) ; Pcriplaneta contraria (Philippines) ; P. concolor and 

 Salganea (? sp.) (Sylhet) ; Opisthoplatia orientalis (China) ; 

 Epilanipra (? sp.) and Nyctibura tencbrosa (Costa Rica) ; 

 Paranaccphceta indica (Assam) ; Panchlora cxoleta (Costa Rica). 



Mr. Kemp exhibited a macropterous example of Hydro- 

 metra stagnorum from Mitcham Common. 



Mr. R. L. Hewitt and Mr. E. Nottle exhibited series of 

 Nyssia hispidaria, reared from Epping Forest parents. 

 Larvae hatched May gth, igoi, fed on oak, pupated in 

 eighteen inches to two feet of earth about June gth. 

 Emerged January 20th to March 7th, igo2. 



Aniphtdasys strataria, female, parent obtained in Epping 

 Forest, igoi. Larvae hatched May 12th, fed on oak, pupated 

 June 22nd to July 3rd, emerged March 5th to 25th, igo2. 



Pliigalia pcdaria, caught on lamps, trees, fences, etc., in 

 neighbourhood of West Wickham, March, igo2. 



Mr. Edwards exhibited a large number of exotic Hemiptera 

 sent to Mr. Kirkaldy and himself by M. Montandon, of 

 Bucharest, together with numerous species of the genus 

 Charaxes, including several fine examples of C. jasius. 



Mr. Lucas exhibited specimens of Eriocrania subpurpnrella, 

 which w^as now very common on the fences at Oxshott. 



Mr. E. Step exhibited some l)erries of Jasminum officinale, 

 and remarked that these were so rarely produced in this 



