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{Argonauta argo) in various stages of growth, and read a 

 short paper on the structure and habits of the species. (See 

 p. I.) 



MAY i^th, 1903. 



The President in the Chair. 



Mr. J. J. Shakespeare, of Kingston-on-Thames, was elected 

 a member. 



Dr. Chapman exhibited (i) a pair of the very rare 

 and local Graclhia isabella, bred from larvae brought from 

 Bronchalesin igoi ; (2) a piece of bark from Albenga (Italian 

 Riviera) closely set with cases of Aptcrona crenulcUa, as 

 were many trees there, over large portions of their trunks ; 

 also imagines bred from Locarno, 1902 ; (3) living specimens 

 of Carabus auratiis from Aix-les-Bains ; and (4) newly 

 hatched praying mantis (these had died on the way to the 

 meeting). 



Mr. W. J. Lucas exhibited (i) a collection of shells taken 

 in the New Forest district. Except as regards the water-, 

 shells, which are plentiful in the streams and some of the 

 pools, the Mollusca do not seem well represented in the 

 forest. The case contained eleven land-shells, thirteen water- 

 shells, and a few sea-shells from the coast in the neigh- 

 bourhood. The shells were collected only spasmodically, 

 and no doubt there are other species to be found. (2) A 

 photograph of pennywort, or navelwort. Cotyledon iimhilicus, 

 taken on May 5th at Brockenhurst, which it was thought, 

 when the plant was under discussion at some previous 

 meeting, was near the eastern limit of its range in England. 

 It was very common in the hedgerows around Brockenhurst 

 at the beginning of May. Mr. M'Lachlan had pointed out 

 that there were several localities given for the plant in the 

 county of Kent in the recently published " Flora of Kent," 

 by Hanbury. (3) A large spider, taken amongst hot-water 

 pipes in an orchid-house at Virginia Water. Presumably it 

 is not British, but whence it came is uncertain, seeing that 

 packages came the same day from South America, Java, and 

 Borneo. 



Mr. F. B. Carr exhibited living larvae oi Ellopia prosapiaria 

 ifasciaria) and Bryophila pcrla, both from Brockenhurst. 



Mr. West (Greenwich) exhibited three species of Staphy- 

 linidcB of somewhat rare occurrence, viz. Mycetoporus angularis, 

 taken among dried leaves at Shirley ; M. nanus, taken at Box 



