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white paper bags in which bunches of grapes were often 

 enclosed in England. 



Mr. Billups exhibited on behalf of Mr. Sauze fifty-four 

 species of Diptera taken in 1893. 



Mr. Manger exhibited a specimen of a land crab, Ocypode 

 cursor^ from the island of Lagos, which was stated to be so 

 nimble as to elude capture alive, having finally to be shot to 

 be secured. The curious brush-like processes on the eye- 

 stalks were very noticeable. 



Mr. Carrington exhibited "blown" eggs of a snail, Buliimis 

 oblojtgus, from Trinidad, W. Indies, and stated that they 

 were so exceedingly calcareous as to be easily mistaken for 

 the eggs of a bird, being about the size and general appear- 

 ance of those of a woodpecker. He also said that the}^ were 

 laid singly at considerable intervals of time, and that the 

 family were generally remarkable for the amount of cal- 

 careous matter in the egg shell. Mr. Manger stated that he 

 also possessed specimens of these eggs. 



Mr. Sauze reported that he had received a locust, CEdipoda 

 tartarica, taken from a cauliflower which had been imported 

 from Italy last week. 



A general discussion then ensued as to the early season. 

 Nyssia liispidaria, Fb., was reported as out by February 5th ; 

 Hybernia leucopJicBaria, Schiff., and H. 7'upicaprafia, Hb, 

 were said to be fully out by the middle of January, when 

 also Phigalia pedaria, Fb., was observed ; and Anisopteryx 

 cBsculm'ia, Schiff., was taken in the end of January. 



FEBRUARY 22nd, 1894. 



E. Step, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. South exhibited, on behalf of Mr. Rose of Barnsley, a 

 long series of PJiigalia pedaria, Fb. {pilosaria, Hb.), bred 

 from a captured dark female in 1894; none of the specimens 

 were quite typical, some males were uniformly black without 

 trace of markings, and all the females were very dark. On 

 behalf of Mr. Fowler of Ringwood, a specimen oi Argynnis 

 aglaia, L., from Hampshire, which was a modification of var. 

 c/iarlotta, Sow., and a var. of EucJiclia jacobacB, L., in which 

 the costal stripe was produced and carried round the hind 

 margin to meet the spot near the anal angle. He also exhi- 

 bited from his own collection a variety oi Argynnis euphrosyne, 

 L., taken in Kent, June, 1890, in which the discoidal cells of 

 forewings were almost entirely filled up with black, with a 

 large black blotch below it, and the spots forming the central 



