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MA Y %th, 1890. 

 J. T. Carrington, Esq., F.L.S., President, in the Chair. 



Messrs. S. G. C. Russell, G. C. Dennis and I. H. Rowntree 

 were elected members. 



Mr. C. Fenn exhibited Hedya pauperana, Dup., taken by 

 himself, the specimens were beaten from rose. 



Mr. Moore exhibited galls from the so-called whistling tree, 

 Acacia fistula, from Lower Egypt. 



Mr. E. Step exhibited Arum macidatum, L., in flower, and 

 remarked that cross fertilization of this species was brought 

 about by small flies, chiefly Diptera, which attracted by the 

 upper part of the spathe worked their way into the lower part, 

 which imprisoned them ; the flies were unable to escape, the 

 mouth of their prison being guarded by several rows of hairs, 

 which although permitting the flies to enter, yet prevented 

 their escape ; if the flies had come from other flowers they 

 cross-fertilized the stigmas : at a later stage the stigmas 

 wither, the anthers dehisce, the pollen falls on to the lower 

 part of the spathe, and the insects get covered with it ; the 

 rows of hairs also wither, the flies escape, and covered with 

 the pollen enter other flowers in their early stages. 



Mr. Step referring to the sloughs of Newts shown by Mr. 

 R. Adkin at a previous meeting, exhibited skins of the Warty 

 Newt, Smooth Newt, and of a foreign species, all of which 

 were mounted by Miss C. C. Hopley. 



MA Y 22nd, 1890. 



J. T. Carrington, Esq., F.L.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. S. Edwards exhibited a pair of Sericinus mentela, from 

 China, Papilio junaka, and P. niigarus, from India, and two 

 Coleoptera belonging to the family Sagra from Africa, and 

 remarked that Papilio niigarus belonged to the xenocles group 

 and mimicked one of the Danaids. 



Mr, Hawes exhibited leaves of buckthorn with eggs of 

 Gonopteryx rhamni, L., in situ, and stated he had seen the 

 female deposit the ova on a small plant of buckthorn, growing 

 in a hedge on the outskirts of a wood. 



Mr. Frohawk remarked that on the previous Sunday he 

 had seen a number of female rhamni, and could have taken 

 twenty or thirty dozen ova if he had liked, the &^^ was laid 

 on the under side of the leaf close to the mid-rib. Mr. Fro- 

 hawk exhibited a microscopical drawing of the ^g^, and a 

 life size coloured drawing of a piece of buckthorn, not three 

 inches in height, upon which he had found seven eggs. 



