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SEPTEMBER 25t!i, 1902. 



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



Dr. Chapman remarked that he had found considerable 

 numbers of larvae of Euchclia jacohcecc during his stay at 

 Bejar, which differed from the ordinary forms in having the 

 usual broad black rings or bands broken into four black 

 marks. He exhibited imagines bred from these larvae, but 

 these in no way differed from the ordinary typical form. 



Mr. H. J. Turner exhibited a cactus, Jl/ainiinllayia centri- 

 chirra, of a different type to those he had previously shown, 

 and having rosettes of long, curved, stout spines, with a 

 central spine somewhat more robust and curved downwards. 



Mr. W. J. Kaye exhibited a short series of Leucania albi- 

 piinda, representative of those he had taken in the Isle of 

 Wight this year. 



Mr. Dennis exhibited a very curious variety of Scolopen- 

 drimn vulgare. 



Mr. Kirkaldy exhibited a cruizie (or crusie) from the 

 Orkney Isles. These old " lamps," which were formerly in 

 general use in Scotland, in cowbyres and similar places, 

 and are still used in the Shetlands and Outer Hebrides, have 

 elsewhere been almost entirely superseded by cheap paraffin 

 lamps. He also exhibited a " stocking " cap made in Fair 

 Island of the soft Fair Island wool. The pattern is remark- 

 able, being of Spanish origin ; similar designs are to be 

 noted in Murillo's seventeenth-century paintings. The Fair 

 Islanders were taught the pattern by Spanish castaways at 

 the time of the Armada. 



Mr. Kirkaldy also exhibited a sufficiently remarkable case 

 of insect mimicry in the shape of some Brazilian Rhynchota 

 from the same locality in the Province of Goyas. Mabelia 

 ptdchcrrima, a new genus and species of phytophagous 

 Miridae allied to Lopidea and Resthcnia, was shown with the 

 (probably raptorial) Pyrrhocorine Thcrancis oleosiis, Distant, 

 from Costa Rica, and T. luvidus, Distant, from Brazil. Eury- 

 ophthahnus siiccinctus, Linne, and E. ivochantcrns, Signoret, 

 were also shown to exhibit the modification in form of Thc- 

 raneis from the more typical Euryophthalmini ( = Larginae). 



Mr. Boxer exhibited a flower of garden scabious, from the 

 apex of which leaves were growing. It was explained that 

 the flower really consisted of an arrested axis, in which the 

 leaves were metamorphosed into the various parts of the 



