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of their collections, and increase my knowledge of our British 

 species. 



G. H. Verrall. 

 The Mulberries, Denmark Hill, 

 London, S.E. 



Abstract of the Proceedings of the Entomological Society, 

 December 6, 1869, and January 3, 1870. 



Larv(B of Heliothis armiger. — Mr. J. Jenner Weir ex- 

 hibited two specimens of Heliothis armiger, bred from larvae 

 which fed in tomatoes. An importation of tomatoes from 

 Spain or Portugal had been greatly damaged by a number of 

 green larvae, with black lines and spots, which fed in the 

 fruit, where there was apparently juice enough to drown 

 them, and which ultimately produced the moths exhibited. 



Coleopterous Monstrosity. — ^Mr. Albert Miiller exhibited a 

 photograph of a Coleopterous monstrosity, a specimen of 

 Pterostichus Prevostii with eight legs : on either side of the 

 left hind leg (z. e. before and behind the normal hind leg) was 

 a supernumerary limb of somewhat stunted grovvth, but 

 structurally perfect : there were apparently three distinct 

 coxae fitting into three separate sockets in a single expanded 

 trochanter. The beetle was found in Switzerland, and Mr. 

 Miiller had seen it alive : the extra legs were simply carried, 

 and not used to assist in locomotion. 



The English Locusts. — With reference to the locust 

 exhibited at the previous Meeting, the President had received 

 the following from Mr. Edwin Brown : — ''I am informed 

 that when my specimen of a new locust was exhibited at the 

 last Meeting of the Society, it was suggested that the occur- 

 rence might have been brought about by the introduction of 

 the insect into the brewery in an empty returned cask. I think 

 such a suggestion is untenable, inasmuch as two specimens 

 of the same species were captured in different parts of the 

 town of Burton-on-Trent, and one caught in Birmingham 

 certainly belongs to the same species. There were several 

 other instances recorded in the papers about the same time 

 of locusts having been captured in Worcestershire, in 



