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 JULY 2Sth, 1921. 



Mr. Edwards exhibited a small general collection of insects 

 made at Digne in April, 1897. 



Mr. Main exhibited a specimen of (jrnjlliis ca^iipestris in its 2nd 

 ecdysis ; puparia of a Tsetse-fiy {(jlussina) from S. Africa; ova of 

 the "Katydid" Locust {Pteropldla concavus) from N. America, 

 and a young trap-door spider {Atypiis alfinis) from Epping Forest. 



Mr. Ashby showed the Cucrinellidae collected by the late Mr. 

 Ashdown, consisting of 2,220 specimens, which were now being 

 added to the Society's collection. 



Mr. 0. R. Goodman exhibited a nest of the wasp Polutea (jallicus, 

 and'larvte of Hi/les {Deilepltila) ciiphorbiae from the Dauphine Alps. 



Mr. Farmer remarked on a notice he had seen in the Daily 

 Chronicle of the appearance of the Large Copper at Limpsfield. 

 Mr. Edwards stated that Captain Purefoy had been rearing a 

 number of Chiysophaiuis rittilns, in Kent ; it was perhaps an escape 

 from his cages. 



A vote of thanks to Mr. Ashby for arranging the Coccinellidae 

 was proposed by Mr. Step, seconded by Mr. Edwards, and carried 

 nem. con. The Secretary read two letters from the Kent and Surrey 

 Footpaths and Commons Preservation Society, re the Society's 

 resolution passed at a previous meeting against a golf course being 

 made on Esher Connnon. 



AXJGUST Uth, 1921. 



Mr. Stanley Edwards exhibited apples much infested with the 

 mussel scale {Mytilaspis jjouiornui), which is a great pest in many 

 places. 



Mr. Blenkarn exhibited the following Coleoptera, Lebia 

 cycDiocephala from Box Hill ; Diaiions coenilesceits from the 

 Mole at Box Hill; MehoKiphila aciuiiinata from Crowthorne on July 

 3rd, where it occurred in numbers on actually burning pine-stumps ; 

 Liparus yernuinus taken by Mr. C. A. W. DufKeld on Hogweed in 

 Kent in June ; Caasida fastuosa on Senecio jacobaea at Box Hill in 

 April and May ; and Bythiniis ylabrattis taken at Box Hill in a nest 

 of Lasiiix flams in April. He also showed a specimen of Aromia 

 nioHcJiata taken in the London district, where it had been but rarely 

 observed in late years. 



Mr. Ashby exhibited a specimen of Statiropus fagi and examples 



