xxii Journal of Proceedings. 



The President announced that a Field Meeting would be held on 

 Saturday, July 3rd, for the purpose of visiting the ancient camps in the 

 Forest. Major-General Pitt-Rivers, F.R.S. (Vice-President of the 

 Anthropological Institute), would act as Archaeological conductor, 

 assisted by Mr. B. H. Cowper, the discoverer, and Mr. \Vm. D'Oyley, 

 the surveyor of the Loughton Camp. Professor Boulger, F.L.S., 

 F.G.S., &c., would superintend the botanical researches of members, 

 and many other well-known men were expected to be present. 



Mr. James English exhibited the following insects taken in Epping 

 Forest: — Noiodojita dictceoides, Statiropus fagi (the "Lobster Moth"), and 

 curious varieties oi Eubolia pahimharia (captured at the last Field Meet- 

 ing), Argynnis selene (" Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary" butterfly), and 

 Lomaspilis marginata. Mr. English also referred to his re-discovery of 

 the " Mountain Buckler Fern," Lastrea oreopteris {montana of Newman's 

 British Ferns), at the Field Meeting on the 19th of June. The plant 

 used to occur near Fair Mead Bottom at the back of the "Royal 

 Oak," High Beach, and one or two other localities, years ago. He had 

 often searched of late to re-discover the species, but in vain, until the 

 occasion referred to ; he had since noticed another plant. Mr. Cole 

 remarked on the probability of many lost species re-occurring; and 

 instanced the Lily of the Valley, which had become very rare in the 

 Forest. This year young plants were springing up in numbers in 

 several spots. 



Mr. Meldola exhibited Aplecta occulta (dark aberration), Aplecta tincta 

 and Noctua glareosa, all captured in the woods near Woodford some 

 years ago. Mr. English remarked that glareosa occurred occasionally 

 in some parts of the Forest, but that A. occulta was a great rarity. 

 Mr. Doubleday had once bred a batch of thirty or forty specimens, but 

 all of the grey tint common in southern specimens, whereas Mr. 

 Meldola's example was similar to the dark northern form of the moth. 

 Mr. B. G. Cole exhibited the following moths : — CuciilUa chamomilloe, 

 taken at Buckhurst Hill in May; Tephrosia consonaria and Nolacristualis, 

 taken in Monk's Woods in May ; and a series of Demas coryli (the " Nut- 

 tree Tussock " moth) bred from larvce found in the same place in Sep- 

 tember and October, 1879. 



The Secretary exhibited some living plants of the " Sundew " {Drosera 

 rotiindifolia) , gathered that morning in Epping Forest. He called atten- 

 tion to the very restricted habitat of the species, and the certainty that 

 any extensive drainage of the locality .would inevitably exterminate 

 this, one of the most wonderful of British plants. 



The President gave some interesting details of the results of modern 

 study of the " Sundews." He briefly described the structure of the 

 leaves of the Drosera, the gland-bearing tentacles, and the viscid fluid 

 secreted by them. Insects alight on the leaves, probably attracted by 

 some odour exhaled by the plant. The viscid fluid covering the ten- 



