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between the woods, Hamearis Incina was met with. Mr. Aahdown 

 and othei's report Bapta temerata and B. biinaculata, with tiyloj)hUa 

 prasinana and Nemophora schwa rziella. Mr. Dunster saya that he 

 found Pi)li/omi)iatus icarus fairly common on the slopes and in the 

 hollow. Among them he took three specimens of the ab. arena, $ s. 

 On the way back to tea he met with Astliena caiulidata, Cabera 

 pusaria, and Loniaspilis maniinata, and subsequently after tea, 

 besides A. thetis, saw some numbers of Acidalia oniata. Mr. 

 Stallman reports that he found the nests with eggs of the Chaffinch, 

 Chiflf-chaft", and Meadow Pipit, and also a few Ephyra annnlata were 

 procured by Mr. Dunster and himself nearer Dorking by beating 

 the hedges of maple. Among the Tortrices Mr. Sich took Caatcia 

 muscitlana and Eulia ministrana, while specimens of Enchroiiiia 

 purpurana and Phtheochroa rngosana were obtained on the steep 

 slopes of the hollow. Among the Tineids Mr. Sich reported 

 GlypJiipteryx fischeriella, Spideria aurifrontella, Ornix acellanella, 

 Nepticula floslactella, and Micropteryx thunheryella. 



JUNE lOth, 1915. 

 Mr. a. E. Gibbs, F.L.S., Vice-president, in the chair. 



It was announced that two members of the Society had been 

 killed in action in France, Mr. W. W. Penn-Gaskell, who joined the 

 Society in 1905, and Mr. W. D. H. Gotch, who joined in 1914. 



Dr. Chapman exhibited a living specimen, bred from the egg, of 

 Polyoinmatiis escheri var. rondoui, from Gavarnie in the Pyrenees. 

 It emerged on June 10th. 



Mr. Hy. J. Turner exhibited the whole of the coloured plates of 

 Herbst and Jablonsky's " Natursystem aller bekannten in- und 

 auslandischen Insecten," vols. i. to x., Coleoptera, which had been 

 found exposed for sale on a barrow in the street and bought for 5/-. 

 He stated that these two authors were the first to place the whole 

 of the known Coleoptera and Rhopalocera in accordance with the 

 Linnean System. There were in all 177 plates. 



Mr. B. S. Williams exhibited a short series of Sclenia hilunaria 

 {illnnaria) from Yeovil. One female was unusually strongly marked 

 and a male was of an extreme smoky brown coloration. He also 

 showed larvfe of Anticlea badiata from ova laid by a female taken 

 at Yeovil, a red-brown Agrotis nigricans from Wicken and a black 

 form from St. Anne's, with a perfect specimen of Mimas tili<z, 

 which had emerged from a pupa which had been crippled. 



