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Mr. Adkin said that the species was common at Chattenden in 

 the 80's, but had long since disappeared there. 



Mr. Sich said that it occurred in Abbot's Wood in the 70's, but 

 he knew of no recent captures. 



Mr. Newman had seen but not captured it in the N. Kent 

 woods, and remarked that these woods were so little worked that 

 possibly it still existed in places. 



Several members remarked on its increasing scarcity in the New 

 Forest, where it had been worked persistently for so many years. 



Mr. B. W. Adkin said that it was more common across the Welsh 

 border, as it also was in the Northampton woods. 



Mr, Gibbs called attention to the re-exhibit at S. Kensington of 

 the material illustrating the results of the investigation on the 

 destruction caused to army biscuits by insects, and said that the 

 new methods adopted as a consequence of the report of that enquiry 

 had been eminently successful, the country being saved thousands 

 of pounds thereby. 



Mr. B. W. Adkin said that this year he had found the females 

 of Ayriades thetis to show a considerable amount of blue scaling and 

 to have the orange marking on the upperside emphasised. Mr. 

 Newman said that this was very usual in hot, sunny years, and 

 noted that the present year had been very sunny for a long period 

 during late spring and early summer. 



Mr. Edwards and Mr. Gibbs noted that the 2nd brood of 

 Celastrina aryiolus was now well out. 



Mr, Newman said that he had captured immigrant females of 

 both Pyrameis cardui and P. atalanta a month or more ago, and 

 found them virgin, whereas specimens he had captured a few days 

 ago paired readily and were now laying their ova, 



Mr, Gibbs reported that F. atalanta had been observed by 

 Mr. Oldham, of St. Albans, on the top of the high mountains 

 in Carnarvonshire. Also that a larva found there feeding on lichen 

 had produced Lithosia complanula. It had fed a little on sallow in 

 confinement. 



Mr. Sich said that almost immediately Kuchlo'e cardamines was 

 over in Surrey this year he had observed P. atalanta. 



AUGUST 12th, 1916. 



Mr. B. H. Smith exhibited the following species of Lepidoptera 

 from New Zealand : — Pyrameis yonerilla, the New Zealand repre- 

 sentative of P. cardui, Argyrophenya antiporum, formerly placed 



