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that, during a visit to the New Forest at Whitsuntide, lie had taken a 

 larva (nearly half-grown) of Apatnra iris from the same branch of 

 sallow from wliich he took one in 1892. Captain Thompson said that 

 he had received a letter from a Birmingham correspondent, who wrote 

 that he had captured about twenty specimens of Neuronia pojmlaris, 

 flying low over the grass in Epping Forest, and that they had revealed 

 their whereabouts by a slight clicking noise. Mr. Trout, Mr. Nicholson 

 and others referred to other instances of clicking noises produced by 

 butterflies and moths. 



June 5th, 1894 — Exhibits: Dr. Buckell; two eggs of the common 

 fowl, connected at the small ends by an albuminous band ; they had 

 separate yolks and the shells were quite soft. Mr. Clark ; three female 

 specimens of Endromis versicolor, bi'ed from Monmouthshire ova. 

 Mr. S. J. Bell ; three pupa3 of Pseudoterpna pruinnta. One of these 

 was of a greenish tint, the larva having spun up in a leaf; one was 

 suffused with very dark grey, the larva having pupated in a cocoon on 

 the surface of the earth ; the third was normal, although the larva had 

 mingled particles of earth in its cocoon. Mr. May ; a blackish suffused 

 male specimen of Ellopia prosapiaria from Weybridge. Mr. Bayne ; a 

 specimen of Notodonfa dictaea from Wood Green. Mr. Mera ; a bred 

 series of Cidaria silaceata from Morpeth ; they were similar to southern 

 specimens. Mr. Nicholson ; two specimens of Atelahus curculiouoides 

 from Epping Forest. Mr. Battley ; Pyrrochroa serraticornis from 

 Loughton. Mr. Bacot read the following : — 



" Notes on tue Ova of Selenia tetkalunaria. — On April 7th I 

 paired a bred ? of this species with a perfectly sound ^ captured in 

 Epping Forest; they remained together from 12.15 p.m. to 9.30 a.m. 

 and were in no way interfered with. Both were rather large speci- 

 mens ; the 2 was very dark and the c? very light in colour. The J 

 commenced laying the next night, and continued to lay a few eggs each 

 night for eight or ten days. The eggs, bright green in colour, were 

 generally laid singly and attached by their side to the box. On April 

 13th I noticed two or three bright red eggs in the chip-box, and there 

 were a few more observed on subsequent days. Altogether the batch 

 consisted of 8 of these red eggs and 13G green ones. The first larva? 

 hatched on May 8th, and a few more appeared during the next few 

 days, but onli/ the red eggs were fertile. My impression is that these 

 were not laid until the 12th, as I could see no change or difference of 

 colour in any of the eggs up to that day. I examined them every 

 morning, and am qiiite sure that while there were no red ones in the 

 box on the morning of the 12th, there were two or three present on 

 the 13th. It is strange that such a small number should have been 

 fertilised, seeing that copulation was in no way interfered with. It 

 would appear to have been a few of the eggs fi'om the middle of the 

 batch that proved fertile, and not those first laid, as might have been 

 expected." 



June Idth, 1894. — Exhibits : Dr. F. J. Buckell : a specimen of 

 Pararge cgeria, sent by Mr. Hodges from Guernsey, which was very 

 nearly identical with the Linntean type (egeria), which diffei-s from the 

 ordinary British form (really var. egerides, Stdgr.) in having the spots 

 dark brownish-orange instead of straw-coloured. Mr. Battley : various 

 species of Taeniocampa from Broxbourne, including a specimen of T. 

 stabilis with the stigmata confluent on both fore-wings, a single line 



