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or is it that the present rough copy of spinigers spines is found sufficient to 

 deceive? The bug has also been found 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 extensaria and 

 Geometra smaragdaria : the position assumed by the former proved con- 

 clusively that it had rightly been placed in the genus Eupithecia. 



Mr. Crowley exhibited two specimens of a Papilio from the Khasia 

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

 section Chilades. Col. Swinhoe remarked that he possessed a specimen 

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

 which followed. 



Mr. Dallas Beeching exhibited a specimen of Plusia moneta, recently 

 taken by himself at High Woods, Tonbridge, and specimens of Gonopteryx 

 cleopatra, lent him for exhibition, which were alleged to have come from 

 the same locality. 



Dr. 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 new species of Heterocera from the 

 Khasia Hills." 



Mr. Crowley read a paper " On a new species of Prothoe." 

 Mr. C.J. Gahan read a paper "On the South American species of 

 Diabrotica" Part II., 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 Mecopodida." 



Prof. Westwood communicated a paper entitled " Notes on Siphonophora 

 artocarpi" referring to an appendage of the eyes which had been over- 

 looked in his previous description. — H. Goss & W. W. Fowler, Hon. 

 Secretaries. 



