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Mr. Rowan exhibited a long series of slides illustrating the habits 

 of birds, many of them taken under difficult circumstances, and only 

 after great patience. The series included sets of the Common Owl, 

 Common Tern, Little Tern, Wild Duck, Bullfinch, Robin, Song 

 Thrush, Moorhen, Dotteril, Lapwing and Turkey. 



Mr. Tonge exhibited slides of the resting attitudes of the imagines 

 of Urapteri/x saiiihncariti, Ereiiiobia ochroleiica on a flowerhead, 

 Dicranitra viniila on a tree-trunk, Pyrameis cardiii on a flower, and 

 ova of Cidaria corylata. 



Mr. Colthrup exhibited the attitudes of the living larvfe of 

 Zyija-na liippocrepidis, Angerona prunaria, Dicranura vinula, and the 

 resting positions of Brenthis enphrosyne, Epinephele tithonus, E. 

 jurtina J , Gonepteryx rhanmi, RuDiicia phUms, Melauaryia yalathea, 

 with a group of Polyoinmatus Icarus settled for the night. 



Mr. Hugh Main exhibited a series of coloured slides of botanical 

 and entomological subjects, including slides of Orchids with Cypn- 

 fedium, Alpine Plants, Narcissus with the narcissus-fly, a Dragon- 

 fly, Water-plants, a sunset scene in Epping Forest, etc. 



Mr. Tonge exhibited a long series of Boarmia repandata and var. 

 conversario, reared by him from ova laid by a female var. couversaria 

 taken at Holt, Norfolk, on June 20th, 1914. The result was a most 

 abnormal one being 5 s repandata form = 29, 3' s repandata form = 

 1; 2 s converaaria iovm — d9, g' s conversaria iorm^^O. Mr. Tonge 

 also exhibited a series of Nunieria pulveraria reared from ova laid by 

 a female taken at Abbot's Wood, in May, 1918, in which the varia- 

 tion was practically nil. The result showed of 3 s = 24, ? s = 27. 



Mr. B. S. Williams exhibited a specimen of Crocallis elhujuaria, 

 captured at Finchley in August, in which the yellow ground colour 

 was heavily dotted with dark brown, while the central band was 

 much darker with a sharp pale line separating it from the ground 

 colour. 



Mr. West, of Ashtead, exhibited a specimen of the Fairy Shrimp 

 Branchippns diaphanus, a freshwater Crustacean, taken in a deep 

 cart rut where water had collected, during the Society's Field meet- 

 ing at Claygate, on September 11th. 



Mr. Morford exhibited the case of the Psychid, I'achythelia villo- 

 sella from the New Forest. 



Mr. Buckstone exhibited a small bred series of Lithoaia deplana 

 from Mickleham. One ? specimen had all four wings dark smoky 

 colour, the costal margins and fringes being rich yellow^ 



Mr. Priske exhibited the large Dipterous galls in the stems of 

 thistles caused by Urojdiora eardiii. 



