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Mr, J. Jenner Weir exhibited specimens of Vanessa cardui, 

 L., which he had reared from larvae collected in July last at 

 Westgate ; the chrysalids, immediately after metamorphosis, 

 Jhad been subjected to a temperature of 57° Fahr., which 

 was steadily maintained both day and night, and the result 

 was that the imagines which emerged were all much darker 

 than usual. This was brought about by the black occupying 

 an extended area, and the row of five spots on the hind 

 wings being not only increased in size, but often confluent. 

 He also exhibited a specimen of Epinephele ianira, L., taken 

 at Westgate, which had a well-defined ocellus on the upper 

 side of the hind wings. Mr. Frohawk stated that he had 

 never noticed an ocellus on the hind wings of this species 

 before. 



Mr, Manger exhibited a Longicorn taken fifty miles at 

 sea, off Borneo, and said it would be interesting to know 

 how they carried their antennae in flight; also a specimen of 

 Vanessa cardni, L., taken at sea thirty miles from Algiers ; 

 and a Cicada twenty-five miles off Pointe-de-galle, Ceylon. 



Mr. Frohawk exhibited a gnat taken from the neck of a 

 collie dog, and stated that the species was very abundant 

 at Chattenden. Mr. West said that the same species was a 

 regular pest at Plumstead. Mr. Step also made some 

 remarks upon its abundance at Ashtead, and related his 

 experience of the painful swellings it had caused upon his 

 hands, which were only reduced after some days of careful 

 treatment. 



Mr. E. Step exhibited living specimens of the Beadlet 

 Anemone {Actinia viesembvyantheniuni), and the Arrow 

 Muzzlet {Peachia hastatd) from St. Mawes, Cornwall ; and 

 made some remarks upon the anemones of that district. 

 The rocks in front of the town, he said, were hollowed into 

 basins, which formed, at low water, admirable collecting 

 or observing grounds. This was so not merely for anemones, 

 but also for littoral mollusca, Crustacea, and other classes of 

 marine life. Several species of anemones, however, were 

 very common. This was, of course, especially the case with 

 the Beadlet, which was exceedingly abundant on rocks only 

 covered at high-water, this species liking to spend much of 

 its time out of the water. Next in abundance was the 

 Dahlia Wartlet {Tealia crassicornis), chiefly on those rocks 

 which were only uncovered at the ebb of spring tides. 

 These, when fully expanded in a shallow pool, make a grand 

 display, but they are difficult to obtain without injury owing 

 ±0 the base being attached to the rock beneath a considerable 



