1899.] MR. A. THOMSOlSr's KEPOET ON THE IKSECT-HOUSE. 



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Mr. Arthur Thomson, the Assistant-Superintendent of the 

 Gardens, laid on the table a series of specimens of various Insects 

 reared and exhibited in the Insect-house in the Society's Gardens 

 during the past year, and read the following report on the 

 subject : — 



Report on the Insect-house for 1898. 



Examples of the following species of Insects have been exhibited 

 in the Insect-house during the past season : — 



— — ajax. 



Nocturnal Lepidoptera. 



Acherontia atropos. Smerinthus exccecatus. 



Sphinx ligustri. Philampelus achemon. 



pinastri. Deilephila vespertilio. 



Carolina. galii. 



Ceratomia undulosa, euphoriioe. 



amyntor. niccea. 



Smerinthus tilice. alecto. 



ocellatus. elpenor. 



Tnyops. Darapsa myron. 



Proc. Zool. Soc. 



* Exhibited for the first time. 



—1899, No. XX. 



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