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AUGUST 25M, 1904. 



Mr. Hugh Main, B.Sc, F.E.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Barnett exhibited a short series of Strenia clathrata, 

 showing three stages in the darkening and enlarging of the 

 banded markings, and a short series of Einaturga atouiavia, 

 showing considerable suffused darkening of the markings. 

 He also exhibited two larvae of Amorpha {Suierinthiis) populi, 

 which were feeding on white poplar, and which were ex- 

 tremely light in colour, assimilating wonderfully to the colour 

 of the food-plant, except that the orange spots were con- 

 spicuous from the greater contrast of the ground colour. 

 Mr. Tutt believed that this form only occurred with larvae on 

 Populns alba. 



Mr. West exhibited two rare species of Hemiptera, taken 

 at Darenth Wood on August 21st — Cori:jus capitatiis obtained 

 by sweeping Hypcriciiin perfoliatum, and Ancuriis lavis under 

 oak bark. The latter is a very curious species, and the 

 flattest found in this country. 



Mr. Tutt remarked that he had found insects generally 

 abundant on the Continent, but nearly everything was worn 

 and the higher Alps were dried up. The season had been 

 very early, and insects had passed through their stages very 

 rapidly. Dr. Chapman said that the season appeared some- 

 what advanced in Spain. 



SEPTEMBER 8ih, 1904. 



Mr. E. Step, F.L.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Edwards exhibited a series of the Danaine butterfly 

 Tiriimala hamata from Samoa, one of the smaller species 

 of the group and indigenous to the warmer parts of 

 Australia. 



Mr. Moore exhibited a large spider from Durban, and a 

 specimen of that curious dipterous parasite of the common 

 swallow Stenopteryx Jiirundinis. 



Mr. Lucas exhibited a photograph of the well-known New 

 Forest character, " Brusher Mflls," and coloured drawings 

 of varieties of Gonepteryx rhamni ; a male bred by Mr. J. Weir 

 from a larva taken in the New Forest about June 26th, 1904, 



