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  Mr. 
  Bunnett 
  exhibited 
  living 
  imagines, 
  larvse 
  and 
  pupae 
  of 
  the 
  

   Coleoptera 
  species 
  Gassida 
  equestris, 
  Cionun 
  blattaria, 
  Melasoma 
  

   populi, 
  and 
  Chnjsomela 
  polita, 
  and 
  also 
  the 
  egg 
  cocoon 
  of 
  a 
  spider, 
  

   Agelena 
  labyrinthica, 
  spun 
  in 
  a 
  glass 
  tube. 
  The 
  cocoon 
  was 
  pure 
  

   white 
  and 
  strongly 
  angulated 
  where 
  the 
  attachment 
  threads 
  were 
  

   joined 
  to 
  it. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Bunnett 
  observed 
  that 
  he 
  had 
  noticed 
  an 
  earwig 
  using 
  its 
  

   " 
  pincers 
  " 
  to 
  clean 
  the 
  inside 
  of 
  the 
  elytra. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Sich 
  recorded 
  the 
  occurrence 
  of 
  the 
  larva 
  of 
  Notodonta 
  drome- 
  

   darius 
  at 
  Chiswick. 
  

  

  Several 
  members 
  noted 
  that 
  the 
  second 
  brood 
  of 
  Celastrina 
  

   argiolus 
  was 
  locally 
  common 
  this 
  year. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Sich 
  read 
  a 
  paper 
  on 
  " 
  Species 
  in 
  the 
  Genus 
  Cerostoma." 
  

   (See 
  page 
  15 
  ante.) 
  

  

  AUGUST 
  22nd, 
  1918. 
  

  

  It 
  was 
  announced 
  that 
  Mr. 
  C. 
  P. 
  Emmett, 
  F.E.S., 
  a 
  member 
  

   since 
  1914, 
  had 
  died 
  of 
  wounds. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Court, 
  of 
  Market 
  Rasen, 
  was 
  elected 
  a 
  member. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Turner 
  exhibited 
  a 
  copy 
  of 
  "Exotic 
  Moths," 
  Jardme's 
  

   Library, 
  1840, 
  and 
  referred 
  to 
  the 
  portrait 
  it 
  contained 
  of 
  the 
  great 
  

   French 
  naturalist, 
  Latreille, 
  together 
  with 
  a 
  sketch 
  of 
  his 
  tomb, 
  in 
  

   Pere-la-Chaise, 
  and 
  a 
  facsimile 
  of 
  a 
  specimen 
  page 
  of 
  his 
  MS. 
  

  

  Mr, 
  Barnett 
  exhibited 
  two 
  undersides 
  of 
  Ai/riadex 
  coridon 
  from 
  

   Royston, 
  the 
  one 
  having 
  the 
  discal 
  markings 
  on 
  all 
  the 
  wings 
  obso- 
  

   lete, 
  the 
  other 
  a 
  very 
  darkly 
  marked 
  form. 
  He 
  reported 
  taking 
  a 
  

   number 
  of 
  examples 
  of 
  the 
  form 
  ab. 
  seinuyngrapha. 
  He 
  also 
  

   exhibited 
  a 
  very 
  pale 
  form 
  of 
  Anaitis 
  plagiata 
  (2nd 
  brood) 
  from 
  

   Colley 
  Hill. 
  On 
  a 
  visit 
  subsequently 
  made 
  to 
  Wicken 
  Fen 
  he 
  heard 
  

   that 
  Montague's 
  Harrier 
  had 
  again 
  nested 
  there 
  this 
  year. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Neave 
  exhibited 
  a 
  living 
  specimen 
  of 
  Trichinra 
  cratagi 
  bred 
  

   from 
  larvae 
  taken 
  at 
  Northampton. 
  He 
  also 
  showed 
  three 
  bred 
  

   specimens 
  of 
  Arctia 
  caja, 
  in 
  two 
  of 
  which 
  the 
  discal 
  black 
  markings 
  

   on 
  the 
  hindwings 
  were 
  either 
  quite 
  absent 
  or 
  nearly 
  so, 
  the 
  third 
  

   specimen 
  was 
  a 
  fine 
  yellow 
  form. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Holden 
  exhibited 
  three 
  bred 
  example 
  of 
  A. 
  caja, 
  (1) 
  a 
  salmon- 
  

   pink 
  specimen, 
  (2) 
  in 
  which 
  the 
  discal 
  markings 
  on 
  the 
  hindwings 
  

   were 
  practically 
  obsolete, 
  and 
  (8). 
  a 
  rich 
  yellow 
  form. 
  He 
  also 
  

   showed 
  a 
  specimen 
  of 
  Mimas 
  tilim 
  in 
  which 
  the 
  transverse 
  band 
  was 
  

   only 
  represented 
  by 
  a 
  medium-sized 
  costal 
  blotch. 
  

  

  