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Mr. A. H. Jones exhibited living full grown larvae of Charaxes Jasiun, found by 

 Mr. Frederic Raine, at Hyeres, feeding on Arbutus unedo. 



Surgeon-Captain Manders exhibited a series of Lyccena Theophrastus from 

 Eawal Pindi, showing climatal variations, the rainy season form being of darker 

 coloration, and larger than that occurring in the dry season. The ground-colour of 

 the former on the under-surface was markedly white with deep black striae ; in the 

 latter form the ground-colour was distinctly reddish, and the marking reduced to 

 reddish lines. He said that the latter form had been described as L. alteratus. 

 Mr. P. Mefrifield mentioned that Dr. Weismann had now established that the 

 colouring of Chrysophanus Phlceas in different climates or seasons, though in part 

 attributable to the actual temperature, was in part constitutional. 



Mr. S. G. C. Kussell exhibited a beautiful variety of Argynnis Selene, taken near 

 Fleet, Hants. ; two varieties of A. Selene from Abbot's Wood, Sussex ; typical speci- 

 mens of A. Selene and A. JEuphrosyne for comparison ; and a remarkable variety of 

 Pieris napi from Woking. 



Mr. C. J. Gahan exhibited a microscopic preparation of the antenna of the larva 

 of a beetle {Pterostichus) , for the purpose of demonstrating the sensory nature of 

 the so-called " appendix " of the antenna. Since he wrote a note describing this 

 structure, a short time ago, he found that Professor Beauregard had already sug- 

 gested its sensory character, and was inclined to believe that it was an auditory 

 organ. 



Mr. H. Goss exhibited a specimen of Tragus lapidator, Grav., believed to have 

 been bred from a larva of Papilio Machaon taken in Norfolk by Major-General 

 Garden. Mr. Goss stated that he sent the specimen to the Rev. T. A. Marshall, who 

 said it was a well-known parasite of P. Machaon on the Continent, but not Droved 

 to exist in the United Kingdom. Mr. M errifield said he knew this parasite, and had 

 bred several specimens of it from pupae of P. Machaon received from Spain. 



Colonel Swinhoe read a paper, entitled, " The Lepidoptera of the Khasia Hills. 

 Part I." A long and interesting discussion ensued, in which Mr. Elwes, Mr. Hamp- 

 son, Colonel Swinhoe, and others took part. Mr. W. Bartlett Calvert communicated 

 a paper, entitled, " New Chilian Lepidoptera." Mr. J. W. Shipp communicated a 

 paper, entitled, " On a New Species of the Genus Phalacrog nathus." 



April 12th, 1893. — Feedeeic Meeeifield, Esq., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Sir John Talbot Dillwyn Llewelyn, Bart., exhibited a number of specimens of 

 Lepidoptera, Coleoptera and Hymenoptera, all caught in Glamorganshire. The 

 Lepidoptera included two remarkable varieties of Vanessa lo, both obtained from 

 the same brood of larvae, from which the usual eye-like spots in the hind-wings were 

 absent ; varieties of Arctia menthastri ; a long series of melanic and other forms of 

 Boarmia repandata and Tephrosia crepuscularia ; and bleached forms of Oeometra 

 papilionaria. The Coleoptera included specimens of Prionus coriarius, Pyrochroa 

 coccinea, Otiorhynchus sulcatus, and Astynomus cedilis, which latter Sir John 

 Llewelyn stated had been handed to him by colliers, who obtained them from the 

 wooden props used in the coal mines, made out of timber imported from the Baltic. 

 Mr. Merrifield, Dr. Sharp, Mr. Bower, and Mr. Stevens made some remarks on the 

 specimens. 



Sir John T. D. Llewelyn enquired whether the name of the moth which had a 

 sufficiently long proboscis to fertilize the large Madagascan species of Orchis, An 



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