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Show 1901.] MR. A. THOMSON'S REPORT ON THE INSECT-HOUSE. 167 American. Samia cecropia. Telea polyphemus. ceanothis. promethea. * euryalus. Eacles imperialis. Actios luna. Diurnal Lepidoptera. European. Papilio machaon. Thais polyxena. American. Papilio asterias. Limenitis disipp>us. ajax. ursula. crespjhontes. Nocturnal Lepidoptera. Acherontia atropos. Smerinthus modestus. Deilephila euphorbia?. Anisota stigma. elpenor. rubicunda. 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). In the British Museum Collection, this species is separated from Samia californica, but Mr. Kirby in bis Catalogue has given both /S'. euryalus Streck. and S. ceanothis Berg as synonyms of S. californica Grote. The cocoons, I may say, were seut to m e as those of Samia gloveri. Orthoptera. *Phymateus stolli. Empusa capensis. Acridium cegyptium. * New to the Collection. On the 9th of May last we received a very beautiful and interesting Locust (Phymateus stolli). This Locust was captured by Mr. Sydney A. M . Fisk, C.I.V., near Belmont, on the Orange River, 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 drawing taken from life, and also a photograph. I also exhibit a specimen of another Locust, Acridium cegyptium. This was sent to the Gardens by a fruiterer who found it amongst some fruit received from " Italy." O n the 16th of June we received a Mantis in the larval stage from South Africa, presented by Mr. W . L. Sclater, F.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." v 12* |
