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lakes of the country. Its nest is a mass of floating rubbish, the 

 eggs often touching the water. The Plovers and Snipes were illus- 

 trated ; also the River Terns, which last breed in colonies on the 

 sand spits which are often seen in the middle of a river, the nests 

 being depressions in the sand, unlined, and fully exposed to the 

 burning sun at the end of May and June. 



Mr. Coulson exhibited an abnormal structure, dish-shaped, made 

 by Saturiiia pavonia as its cocoon, it having got entangled in its own 

 threads and unable to spin normally. He also showed a series of 

 aberrations of C()enon!/iii)>ha ixniiphiliis. 



Mr. Mera exhibited living larvae of Culias cr«cei(s {edusa) from ova 

 laid by a female captured at Eastbourne during the Society's Field 

 Meeting there on July 29th. He also showed a series of Triphaena 

 fimbria, bred in 1922, from Epping Forest larvae, and a specimen 

 from Ipswich, typical of many taken there in and about 1880. This 

 latter specimen was a uniform light brown colour, in contrast to 

 those from Epping, all of which were much darker in general 

 colour; he suggested that during recent years the species appeared 

 to have become darker. 



Mr. Enefer exhibited CalUnioipha tjitadripinictaria [hera), found 

 resting on vine leaves in a vineyard at Clarens, near Montreux, 

 Switzerland. He also showed specimens of Eiebia pronu'e taken 

 resting on clover on the mountain slopes at Miirren, in Auo-ust. 



OCTOBER lith, V.)->-2. 



Mr. Stanley Edwards exhibited the fungus, L'lavaria stricta, 

 found at the base of tree-trunks at Blackheath. 



Mr. Turner exhibited a photograph of L'lacan'a pistillaris, taken 

 by Mr. Step about twenty years ago in Norbury Park, and stated 

 that he had found a considerable number of this singular funpus on 

 Eanmore Common, under beech trees. 



Mr. Withycombe exhibited a female hornet, IV.syjof crabro, caught 

 flying over a tram-car in Walthamstow. 



Mr. Hugh Main exhibited (1) the recently hatched young of the 

 yellow form of the slug Ari(i)i ater, found under a stump of a tree 

 in Epping Forest ; (2) the larvae of a glowworm, Ldmpi/ris Insi- 

 tanica, from the south of France, and said that they fed readily on 

 snails and slugs ; (3) a black-bellied spider, which much resembled 

 the S. France wolf-spider, Lycosa narboneims, but which was not 



