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Boannia cinctaria, and some curiously radiated forms of the first 

 brood of Tep/irosia histortata. 



Mr. H}'. J. Turner showed a number of species of the genus 

 Pliisia, allied, more or less closel}', to the common Plnsia iianniia. 



Mr. B. S. Williams exhibited a few specimens of Rumicia 

 fhlcma from Finchley, showing forms with ill-developed spotting, 

 one ab. kochi with pear-shaped spots, a heavily spotted form, and 

 dusky forms with dark nervures and wide borders, chiefly collected 

 in the hot season of 1911, when the species was abnormally 

 abundant. 



Captain Crocker exhibited a collection of Lepidoptera repre- 

 sentative of what he had met with in the battle-fields of the N. of 

 France, chiefly taken in 1919. Included were Inwria lathonia, 

 MelitfEa cinxia collected on ground which during the winter, when 

 the larvse were hibernating, would often be under water, A/>atiira 

 iris (common), Nordmannia ilicis, Colias hyale, etc. Among the 

 moths were A;/laia tau, Li/mantria dispar, Xotodojita tritop/ms, Cos- 

 viotriche pntatoria including a number of males with female colora- 

 tion, and some unusually dark, the range of colour aberration being 

 large ; Sciopteron tabaniformis, bred from poplar stumps where the 

 wood had been cut for fencing, and Senta waritima, a fine series in 

 much variety. 



In the notes on the season Dn/monia chaonia was reported as 

 occurring in mid April; the larvse of Arctia villica was very scarce 

 in W. Kent, where it was usually abundant at this time of year. 

 Lasiocampa quercus larvae had been found in abundance feeding on 

 sea-buckthorn, and was reported to feed readily on viburnum. The 

 Kev. E. Tarbat reported that in E. Hants he had as yet seen no 

 Celastrina arrfioliis, and no " whites," that the sallows were excep- 

 tionall}^ early, and that daring the fine weather of February and 

 March nothing had come to sugar. 



At the Special Meeting held subsequently for the purpose, Mr. 

 A. E. Tonge was elected to be co-trustee with Mr. R. Adkin, Mr. E. 

 Step having resigned. 



MAY Uth, 1920. 



Mr. Stanley Edwards exhibited a number of exotic species of 

 Coleoptera, including an extremely large specimen of the Goliath 

 beetle Gnliatlnis druryi, and of Orthoptera, including some of the 

 larger Phasmids, etc. 



