REPORTS OF MEETINGS. 247 



BOTANICAL SECTION. 



DURING the last summer the Members of this Section have had the 

 advantage of accompanying their President, A. Leipner, Esq., in the 

 botanical excursions which he has taken with his students. The winter 

 session has been spent in arranging the Herbarium, and incorporating with 

 it the various additions that have been made. 



W. HARGRAVE, M.A. Lond., 



Eon. See. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION. 



OWING to the extraordinary dearth of insect life during 1877, very little 

 out-door work was accomplished by the Section. Only two out- 

 door excursions were taken, and in both cases nothing of importance was 

 captured. 



A large number of interesting species was exhibited at meetings of the 

 Section during the year by different members, among them being bred 

 specimens oi Acidalia degeneraria, and A. contiguaria, Endorea phaeolencalis, 

 captured at Portland ; E. grandaevana^ taken among coltsfoot on the banks 

 of the Swale by Mr. Hudd j-^and numerous others. 



At the December meeting the Hon. Sec. exhibited, on behalf of Mr. 

 Mayes, a singular variety of Orthosia stispecta, the usual ground color of the 

 insect being replaced by white, another specimen captured at the same time 

 and place being the ordinary northern form of this species. This ia the only 

 recorded occurrence of this species in the Bristol district. 



At the December meeting the Chairman of the Section, Mr. Barton, made 

 some interesting remarks upon the use of the Antennas of insects, showing 

 that the commonly accepted view, that they are used simply as feelers, was 



