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Paxillns, Pholiota, Cantharclliis, Hyfi;rophorus, PJenroitts, Lac- 

 carid, Lactarius, Kiissula, Triclwlonia, Amanita, and Xylaria. 



The following members brought microscopes and exhibited 

 a considerable numi:)er of objects under them : — Messrs. Cant, 

 Edwards, Fremlin, N. D. Warne and West (Streatham). 



DECEMBER loth, 1903. 



The President in the Chair. 



Mr. R. S. Smallman, of Heme Hill, and Mr. Ansorge, of 

 Kingston-on-Thames, were elected members. 



Mr. Edwards exhibited an example of a floral mimetic 

 Orthopteron, and contributed the following note : 



" The specimen that I exhibit is closely allied to, if it 

 is not identically the same as Gongylns gongyloidcs, a 

 floral simulator, a species found at Midnapur, where 

 Sontal women and children hunted them out and 

 brought them in, hanging on twigs of a bush. They are 

 said to be found on rose bushes, and at Midnapur 

 were known as rose-leaf insects, from the circumstance 

 that when the insect is more developed and furnished 

 with wings, the foliaceous appendages are said greatly to 

 increase in size and exactly to resemble rose leaves. Dr. 

 Anderson, however, was disposed to think that more 

 than one species might probably occur in the Midnapur 

 district. They feed upon houseflies and grasshoppers, the 

 former being preferred, as the latter are too strong for them; 

 but they will also eat small fragments of plaintain and 

 custard apple. The species was shown to the members 

 of the Asiatic Society of Bengal in 1877 by Dr. I. Ander- 

 son." 



Mr. McArthur exhibited (i) a male specimen of Hepiahis 

 Jmmuli from Shetland, showing white patches on the under- 

 side of exactly the colour of the white upper side. The 

 scales were noted to be fully developed. (2) Two examples 

 oi Dianthcecia nana {conspcrsa) from the Isle of Lewis, both of 

 which were very dark, together with five examples from 

 Shetland, all of which were lighter, two considerably lighter, 

 from the presence, more or less, of orange patches. 



Mr. West, of Greenwich, exhibited two species of aquatic 

 Heteroptera from near Montreal, the huge Bclostoma 

 aniericana, and the smaller ZaWia fluminea. He also 

 exhibited a Cicadid from the same locality, Cicada tibicen. 



