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preferred exhibits that gave additional information about the insects' biology or 

 ecology. The Exhibition notice had been reworded this year to discourage the showing 

 of long series of insects taken from a site in one season. A discussion took place on 

 the practical application of this ruling with reference to some of the exhibits shown 

 at the Exhibition. 



Various members then showed some of their slides. 



Dr J. Muggleton showed slides taken during a visit to the Sierra de Grados 

 mountain range in Spain in June 1993. These depicted various wild plants, including 

 narcissus, paeony, dwarf lupin, Lavandula stoechas and Endymion hispanicus. The 

 invertebrates included various beetles, crickets, the local stick insect Leptynia attenuata 

 found in a new locality, the mantid Empusa pennata, a centipede, and some 

 termites found under a rock. After crossing the border into Portugal, Dr Muggleton 

 also photographed a large solitary wasp, probably Scoliaflavifrons, that had alighted 

 on a car window, and a mating pair of grasshoppers that were superbly camouflaged 

 against the stony ground. 



Mr R. Softly showed some examples of the lesser yellow underwing moth, Noctua 

 comes ab. sagittifer Cockayne taken at light on the Isles of Scilly, together with a 

 specimen close to this form taken at Hampstead Heath. He also showed photographs 

 of the dark spinach, Pelurga comitata (L.), a species not in the Agassiz list of Scilly 

 Lepidoptera, and an as yet unidentified form of an Idaea sp. A typical larva of the 

 chamomile shark, Cucullia chamomillae (D. & S.) was compared with an example 

 found on Scilly. It was almost entirely white and was photographed feeding on the 

 white flowers of mayweed where its coloration gave it excellent camouflage. 



Mrs F. Murphy showed slides of various spiders and plants seen on a visit to the 

 Cote Sauvage, France, in the summer of 1993. In the previous autumn she had visited 

 Singapore and Queensland, Australia, where she photographed various plants, spiders, 

 lizards and green tree ants. She closed her display by showing slides of members taken 

 at the Pelham-Clinton building at Dinton Pastures on 20 September 1992. 



Members at Dinton Pastures, 20 September 1992. Left to right: Tony Pickles, John Muggleton, 

 Peter Chandler, Ian McLean. Photo: F. M. Murphy. 



