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bridge. Two wings were largely clouded with black, while the 

 others were irregularly streaked with the same colour. 



On behalf of Mr. Manger, Mr. Tutt exhibited a number of 

 insects captured long distances out at sea, including Deilephila 

 alecto, D. livornica, Chcerocampa celerio, Abraxaphantes peram- 

 pla, Margaronia unionalis, Euchera capitata, Patula macrops, 

 Ophideres dividens, 0. fullonica, Macroglossa stellatarum, Acri- 

 dium peregrinum, Morinus asper. 



Mr. Dolman exhibited a curious specimen of Abraxas 

 gross dariata, found at rest on a tree trunk by a boy. The 

 black markings were quite typical, but the ground colour 

 was entirely of a uniform deep orange. He also exhibited 

 the ova of Aporia cratcBgi from Dover, and stated that ova, 

 larvae, and imagines of the species were to be found this 

 year all at the same time. 



Mr. T. W. Hall exhibited a gravid female and a colony of 

 worker ants which he had found inhabiting burrows in the 

 stems of alder, from which he had expected Sesia sphegi- 

 formis to emerge. On cutting the stem open no trace of 

 the Lepidopteron was discovered, the assumption being that 

 the ant had made away with the sphegiformis larvae. 



Mr. Perks exhibited a specimen of the pipe-fish, Sygnathus, 

 from Portscatho, Cornwall. It was a male, and showed 

 very well the long ventral pouch in which the ova undergo 

 the process of hatching. 



Mr. West, of Greenwich, exhibited bred specimens of 

 the Hemiptera Podisus liiridus and Gonioceriis venator, both 

 from Box Hill. 



Mr. H. J. Turner exhibited a bred series of Porthesia 

 chrysorrhcea from larvae taken in North Kent. Mr. Mont- 

 gomery had found a larva in Sussex this year. He also 

 exhibited a larvae of Dicranura bifida, taken in West Kent, 

 and the remarkable starfish-like flower of a South African 

 plant, Orbea (Stapelia) irrorata, of which he had exhibited a 

 photograph at the last meeting. 



Mr. Dennis exhibited under the microscope the ova of 

 Thecla w-albuni. 



Mr. Edwards exhibited a kitten with an extra toe more or 

 less developed on each foot. The extra claw on the right 

 fore-paw being of the ordinary size. 



