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Angnst 2 Is/, 1894. — Mr. Clark, in referring to the death of Mr. 

 William Machin, formerly a member of the Society, proposed that a 

 vote of sympath}^ be sent to his relatives ; this was accordingly done. 

 Exhibits : — Mr. Gregor : Acidalia manjinepunctnta, Agrotia strignla (dark), 

 Cidaria populata, Lurentia olivata, Hypsipefes sordiddta (some tine forms) 

 and a suffused banded form of Camptogramma bih'neata, all from North 

 Wales. Mr. Gates : a number of microlepidoptera, mostly bi'cd, from 

 the Hammersmith neighbourhood, including Furnea mtenuediella ; the 

 females of this species never leave the larval case. Mr. Clark : Meh'ana 

 fiarnmea, Bankia argentula, Acontia hictuosa and others from Wicken. 

 Mr. Lewcock : Pachyta collaris, Cryptorhynclms lapathi and many other 

 coleoptera ; the larva of C. lapathi feeds in the stems of willow and 

 sallow. Dr. Buckell : Bupalns phiiaria ( S s) from Oxshott and West 

 Wickham, with a Scotch specimen for comparison ; one of the Oxshott 

 specimens had those portions of the wings which are usually yellow as 

 white as in the Scotch specimen, whilst in another specimen the black 

 had encroached much more than usual on the yellow, and on the hind- 

 wings had almost entirely obliterated it ; also two pupa? of Nemeohins 

 lucina attached to a withered primrose leaf ; the larvae hatched on June 

 12th, and jjupated on July 23rd ; during their earlier stages the larvae 

 remained on the fresh leaf all day, but in their later stages they left it 

 during the day and rested on the bottom of the glass in which they 

 were being reared ; this facts suggests that the larv^ might be looked 

 for during the day under leaves resting on the ground or on the ground 

 close to the plant ; when the time for pupation came neither attached 

 itself to the fresh leaf, but both retired to the withered leaf on which 

 they now are, and which happened to be in the jar ; also a specimen of 

 Miana strigilis from Highgate, with a reddish band near the hind 

 margin of the fore-wings. Dr. Buckell also read : — 



Notes on the parallelism, in their earijest stages, between 

 EuGONiA quercinaria AND E. AUTUMNARiA. — I obtained a batch of eggs 

 last year from a bred ? E. quercinaria paired with a bred ^ , both of 

 them from larvje taken in Kensington Gardens. In April last Capt. 

 Thompson brought me some eggs of E. aidiimnaria to rear for him. 

 Eearing the two species side by side, I was struck with tlie following 

 points of parallelism between them. 1. The eggs were (to the naked 

 eye) indistinguishable, their shape is jjeculiar (vide Ent. Bee, vol. iv., 

 J). 23(3) ; Mr. Tutt describes it {Ent. Bee, v., p. 1 14) as " a rather square- 

 based parallelepiped." 2. In both cases the eggs were laid overlapping 

 one another (imbricated)). 3. In both alike the hatching 2:)rocess ex- 

 tended over very nearly a month. 4. For pupation both spun leaves 

 together, E. quercinaria very loosely, E. antumnaria somewhat more 

 firmly. 



Mr. Riches announced that he had bred several specimens of Apamea 

 ophiogramma from " Ribbon-grass;" a discussion ensued as to the proper 

 food of this larva when in a wild state ; Dr. Buckell said that the Rev. 

 C. R. N. Burrows of Rainham had bred 3 (? and 3 $ Anticlea berberata, 

 which he placed together in a glass-topped box with a spray of the food 

 plant ; on the first night each 5 found a mate ; on the following night 

 some were paired again, and the same thing happened on the third 

 night. Mr. Bacot read : — 



Further notes on Selenia tetkali'nahia. — From the fertile ova of 

 the batch upon which I communicated some notes to the Society on 



