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persons were elected members of the Club :— Walter Crouch ; the 

 Right Hon. Lord Carlingford ; the Right. Hon. the Earl of Essex ; 

 William Fawcett ; W. R. Fisher, M.A., Barrister-at-Law ; William 

 George ; David B. Jones ; Rev. Alfred Leeman, M.A. ; Edward Martin, 

 BA., F.Z.S., Barrister-at-Law; Miss Eleanor A. Ormerod, F.M.S., 

 M.E.S., &c. ; Arthur Priest, (M.D., &c. ; the Right Hon. Lord Reay, 

 D.C.L., F.R.G.S., &c. ; the Right Hon. the Earl of Rosslyn, M.A., 

 F.Z.S., &c. ; AV. Pickett Turner, M.R.C.S., &c. ; Lord Walsingham, 

 M.A., F.Z.S., M.E.S., &c. The names of three candidates for election 

 at the next meeting were read. 



The President, alluding to the lamented death of Mr. George J. 

 Thompson, a member of the Club, who was drowned whilst bathing at 

 Budleigh, Salterton, on July 28th, said the unfortunate fate of Mr. 

 Thompson was probably known to all present, and he thought it 

 their duty to pay that slight tribute to his memory. 



Mr. James English exhibited some leaves of the common Cottage- 

 garden shrub, Lyciiim barbavum (the "Tea-tree"), to which were 

 attached specimens of a small moth {Ccimptogmmma bilineata). The 

 moths had evidently died in the position in which they were found, and 

 Mr. English asked whether a like mortality had been noticed in other 

 species of Lepldoptera in the perfect state. The bodies of the moths 

 were apparently fastened to the leaves of the plant by some exudation 

 or growth from the insect, and he suggested that the insects had been 

 killed by a fungoid disease similar to that which so commonly attacks 

 caterpillars of Lepidoptera. 



The President thought it would not be right to infer a similarity 

 between the two phenomena, without further investigation. 



Mr. W. Cole referred to an analogous exhibition by Mr. Boyd at the 

 Entomological Society some years ago. The insects were Trichop- 

 terous {Brachycentrus siibnubulus) ; and they were congregated in 

 hundreds on the underside of a leaf of the Comfrey {Symphytum offici- 

 nale), and all in a dead or dying state. No explanation had hitherto 

 been made of this curious occurrence. 



Mr. Robarts suggested further careful observation and experiment 

 with various plants and insects, as likely to afford interesting results. 



The President said that being engaged on a translation of Dr. 

 Weismann's " Studies in the Theory of Descent," he was desirous of 

 obtaining some practical information with respect to the biological 

 history of certain caterpillars. He wished particularly to be furnished 

 with instances, drawn from personal observation, of caterpillars which, 

 feeding on trees in the autumn, and hibernating, were compelled in 

 the spring to betake themselves to low growing herbs for subsistence, 

 the buds of the trees not opening until later in the season. 



In the course of conversation, called forth by the President's 

 recjuest, Mr. Argent stated that he had some lavvcc oi Sphinx Ugustyi 



