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caused me some surprise, as being (so far as I had yet 
known) foreign to the Bazleya, and yet harmonising perfectly 
with its peculiar colour. The pupa was silver-colour with 
a faint greenish tinge and a golden lustre, with the dorsal 
prominences and part of the antennal coverings ruddy 
golden. A beautiful and conspicuous object in the hand, it 
was hardly noticeable on the plant. So also with the 
larva, which was 35 mm. long, pale whitish green, nearly 
the colour of the foliage; caudal horn very pale blue, with 
dorsal black specks ; seven oblique lateral stripes, spiracular 
openings orange. Taking the larva home I found that it 
would by no means eat Laz/eya, but it fed greedily on the 
foliage of Solanum elaagnifolium. It was, in fact, an im- 
mature ‘tomato worm.’ The pupa, on August 2Ist, gave 
forth an ordinary example of Pyvameis cardui; the larva 
must doubtless have wandered from an adjacent Spheralcea. 
‘‘ Now are we to suppose that the Vanessid larva came to 
the Baileya to pupate, and the Sphingid to exuviate, because 
they realised that they would be protected (¢.e. inconspi- 
cuous) there? ”’ 
Mr. Ficklin exhibited a series of Polia flavicincta, taken in 
Cornwall, and noted that they were small and much more 
brightly marked than usual. 
Mr. Edwards exhibited specimens of the eggs of the 
turtle. 
Mr. Lucas exhibited an immature form of a locust which 
had been sent him from Kew Gardens. 
Mr. West, of Greenwich, exhibited series of the Hemiptera 
Acanthosoma tristriatum, beaten from juniper bushes at Box- 
hill, and Pantilius tunicatus, beaten from hazel. 
Mr. Robert Adkin exhibited a short series of varieties of 
Nonagria arundinis (typhe, Esp.), the individuals of which 
ranged from dark mahogany-brown to sooty black in colour, 
bred from pupz taken at Shoreham, Sussex; also of typical 
specimens from Cambridge and Lewisham for comparison, 
and made the following remarks: 
‘“T take the opportunity of exhibiting this most ‘ greasy’ 
species, to say a word on the method I have successfully 
employed for ridding the moths of the ‘grease’ which so 
soon overspreads both bodies and wings, and renders them 
useless for the cabinet, if it 1s not removed very soon after 
death. Assuming that the ‘grease’ has not spread to the 
thorax or wings, I break off the abdomen, attach one of a 
pair of numbered labels to it by a very fine pin, the other 
label being attached to the remainder of the insect, and 
