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bug is still waiting for oue of its race to accidentally sport spines more like 

 those of P. spiniger, and thus to set the ball of evolution rolling afresh? or 

 is it that the present rough cop}' of spiniger's spines is found sufficient to 

 deceive? The bug has also been lound in the Nilgherries. Mr. Rothney 

 remarks on the above species: — 'I have not found the species mimicking 

 Mutilla ; but in Calcutta and Barrackpore, where P. spiniger is a tree ant, 

 forming its net by spinning together the twigs of a shrub, the mimicking 

 bug also assumes arboreal habits, and may be found on the trunks of trees 

 with the ants.'" Mr. Porritt exhibited living specimens of Eupithecia 

 extemaria and Geometra smaragdaria: the position assumed by the former 

 proved conclusively that it had rightly been placed in the genus Eupithecia. 

 Mr. Crowley exhibited two specimens of a Papiliu from the Khasia hills, 

 belonging to an undescribed species allied to P.papone, sub-generic section 

 Chilades. Col. S win hoe remarked that he possessed a specimen from 

 Northern Burmah. Mr. Moore and others took part in the discussion 

 which followed. Mi'. Dallas Beeching exhibited a specimen of Plusia 

 moneta, recently taken by himself at High Woods, Tonbridge, and speci- 

 mens of Gonepteryx cleopatra, lent him for exhibition, which were alleged 

 to have come from the same locality. Mr. Algernon Chapman exhibited the 

 larva of Micropteryx calthella, and read the following notes: — " The larvae 

 were obtained by placing moths in a cage with damp moss, dead leaves, and 

 other debris off the surface of the ground. Into this the moths crept to a 

 depth of half an inch, forcing their way into narrow cavities, and laid their 

 eggs in groups of six or twelve. The eggs are clothed with fine hairs, tipped 

 with refractive particles. The larva, about a millimetre in length, possesses 

 on each segment eight processes of a globular form raised on a very slight 

 pedicle. Besides the thoracic legs, each of the abdominal segments (eight) 

 possesses a pair of minute jointed legs of the same type as the thoracic. 

 There are also a pair of long jointed antennae." Col. Swinhoe read a paper 

 " On a new species of Heterocera from the Khasia Hills." Mr. Crowley 

 read a paper " On a new species of ProtJioe." Mr. C. J. Gahan read a 

 paper " On the South American species of Diabrotica," Part 11. , being a 

 continuation of Dr. Baly's paper on the same genus, published in the 

 Society's Transactions for 1890, Part I. Mr. W. F. Kirby communicated 

 a paper entitled " Notes on the Orthopterous family Mecopodidse." Prof. 

 Westwood communicated a paper entitled " Notes on Siphonophora arto- 

 carpi," referring to an appendage of the eyes which had been overlooked in 

 his previous descriptien. — H. Goss & W. W. Fowler, Hon. Secretaries. 



South London Entomological and Natural History Society. — 

 June ^Sth, 1891.— Mr. W. H. Tugwell, President, in the chair. Mr. West 

 exhibited bred examples of Sesia formiciformis, and remarked that he had 

 bred a large number of ichneumons from the pupse, and many others, he 

 thought, were standing over. Mr. C. A. Briggs, a specimen of Pieris 

 brassiccB, L,, bred from pupae received from Yorkshire, having one of the 

 antennae much smaller than the other, although fully developed. Mr. Croker, 

 an hermaphrodite specimen of Coremia ferrugata, Clerck, a variety of 

 Spilosoma lubricipeda, Esp., very strongly marked for the southern form of 

 the species. Mr. Barker, a specimen of Epinepliele hy2oeranthes, L., one of 

 the inferior wings being about a quarter the size of the other ; the ocelli 

 were, however, to be seen. Mr. H. Moore, several species of locust. The 

 Secretary read a list, compiled by Mr. Adkin, of Lepidoptera taken on the 

 Society's excuision to Eyuesfoid, Kent, on Saturday, the 20th June, which 



