1901.] MR. A. THOMSOlfs REPOKT ON THE INSECT-HOUSE. 167 



American. 

 Samia cecropia. Telea polyjphemus. 



ceanothis. promethea. 



* euryalus. Eacles imperialis. 



Aciiccs luna. 



Diurnal Lepidoptera. 



Eiu-opean. 

 Papilio machaon. Thais polyxena. 



American. 

 Papilio asterias. Limenitis disippiis. 



ajax. wsula. 



crespjliontes. 



Nocturnal Lepidoptera. 



Acherontia atropos. Smerinthus modestus. 

 Deilepliila eupliorbice. Anisota stigma. 

 elpenor. ruhicunda. 



Of the Lepidopterous Insects which I have the honour to 

 place before the meeting, Samia euryalus is the only species of 

 which examples are exhibited for the first time. This species was 

 described and figured by Strecker in his ' Lepidoptera' (plate xii. 

 fig. 2). Iq the British Museum Collection, this species is separated 

 from Samia californica, but Mr. Kirby in his Catalogue has given 

 both ^'. euryalus Streck. and S. ceanothis Berg as synonyms of S. cali- 

 fornica Grote, The cocoons, I may say, were seut to me as those 

 of Samia gloveri. 



Orthoptera. 

 *'Phymateiis stolli. Empusa capensis. 



Acridium cegyptium. 



* New to the Collection. 



On the 9th of May last we received a very beautiful and inter- 

 esting Locust (Phymateus stolli). This Locust was captured by 

 Mr. Sydney A, M. Fisk, C.I.V., near Belmont, on the Orange 

 Eiver, on the 31st March, 1900, and was forwarded by him to his 

 parents, by whom it was kept a month, before it was presented to 

 the Society. It fed well upon grass, lettuce, &c., and lived till the 

 1st of July. I exhibit the specimen this evening together with a 

 coloured drawiag taken from life, and also a photograph. I also 

 exhibit a specimen of another Locust, Acriditom cegyjjtium. This 

 was sent to the Gardens by a fruiterer who found it amongst 

 some fruit received from " Italy." 



On the 16th of June we received a Mantis in the larval stage 

 from South Africa, presented by Mr. W. L. Sclater, T.Z.S., of the 

 South African Museum, Cape Town. This species, Mr. Kirby says, 

 is " probably Empusa capensis, but there are several closely allied 

 species not very well made out." 



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