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  Mr. 
  A. 
  W. 
  Biickstone 
  reported 
  that 
  Pararge 
  merjera 
  (2nd 
  brood) 
  

   had 
  been 
  a 
  common 
  butterfly 
  in 
  the 
  neighbourhood 
  of 
  Guildford 
  and 
  

   Dorking. 
  Epinephele 
  tkhoniis 
  was 
  also 
  very 
  plentiful. 
  

  

  Messrs. 
  Adkin 
  and 
  Sparring 
  had 
  also 
  met 
  with 
  P. 
  me;/era 
  in 
  

   number. 
  

  

  SEPTEMBER 
  2C^th, 
  1918. 
  

   Dr. 
  T. 
  A. 
  Chapman, 
  F.R.S., 
  F.Z.S., 
  in 
  the 
  chair. 
  

  

  The 
  decease 
  of 
  a 
  member, 
  Mr. 
  W. 
  F. 
  de 
  Vismes 
  Kane 
  was 
  

   announced. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Main 
  exhibited, 
  on 
  behalf 
  of 
  Mr. 
  Carr, 
  leaves 
  of 
  Alder 
  from 
  

   Blackheath 
  containing 
  the 
  circular 
  mines 
  of 
  the 
  sawfly, 
  P/u/llotoma 
  

   vat/ans. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Main 
  exhibited 
  living 
  specimens 
  of 
  the 
  large 
  water-beetle 
  

   Dytiscus 
  circumcinctus, 
  and 
  pointed 
  out 
  that, 
  unlike 
  the 
  rest 
  of 
  the 
  

   species 
  in 
  the 
  genus, 
  it 
  was 
  not 
  sexually 
  dimorphic. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Moore 
  exhibited 
  specimens 
  of 
  SpJdnx 
  Uijustri 
  2nd 
  brood, 
  and 
  

   read 
  the 
  following 
  note 
  : 
  — 
  

  

  " 
  Autumn 
  emergence 
  of 
  S. 
  ligustri.— 
  Tutt, 
  in 
  his 
  ' 
  British 
  

   Lepidoptera,' 
  says 
  one 
  authentic 
  record 
  of 
  the 
  emergence 
  of 
  S. 
  

   liijiistri 
  the 
  same 
  season 
  as 
  the 
  parent 
  was 
  known 
  to 
  him. 
  The 
  

   experience 
  of 
  my 
  neighbour, 
  Mr. 
  Cook, 
  this 
  year 
  may 
  therefore 
  be 
  

   of 
  interest. 
  The 
  parents 
  emerged 
  on 
  May 
  10th, 
  1918, 
  the 
  larvae 
  

   were 
  full 
  fed 
  July 
  23rd-28th, 
  the 
  imagines 
  emerged 
  August 
  21st, 
  

   23rd, 
  31st, 
  and 
  September 
  2nd. 
  A 
  number 
  of 
  larvae 
  were 
  given 
  to 
  

   a 
  friend, 
  who 
  had 
  two 
  emerge 
  in 
  August. 
  These 
  six 
  emergences 
  

   were 
  from 
  a 
  brood 
  reared 
  under 
  natural 
  conditions 
  in 
  previously 
  

   empty 
  cages." 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Bunnett 
  exhibited 
  galls 
  of 
  the 
  gall 
  flies 
  PJioditea 
  {Cijnips) 
  

   eglanteria, 
  a 
  very 
  fine 
  colony, 
  under 
  leaves 
  of 
  the 
  rose, 
  and 
  lihodites 
  

   (Cynifis) 
  rosa 
  on 
  the 
  stems 
  of 
  the 
  rose. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  W. 
  West 
  exhibited 
  examples 
  of 
  the 
  " 
  fire-beetle," 
  Melano- 
  

   p/tila 
  aciuninata, 
  from 
  Crowthorne, 
  taken 
  by 
  Mr. 
  W. 
  E. 
  Sharp. 
  The 
  

   species 
  was 
  found 
  about 
  six 
  years 
  ago 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Champion 
  at 
  Woking. 
  

   It 
  frequents 
  areas 
  recently 
  devastated 
  by 
  fire, 
  sitting 
  on 
  the 
  charred 
  

   stumps 
  of 
  fir 
  trees, 
  often 
  when 
  the 
  fire 
  is 
  actually 
  going 
  on. 
  (See 
  

   " 
  Ent. 
  Mo. 
  Mag.," 
  1918, 
  p. 
  244.) 
  

  

  Mr. 
  B. 
  W. 
  Adkin 
  exhibited 
  specimens 
  of 
  Pararge 
  megera, 
  selected 
  

   from 
  many 
  hundreds 
  which 
  he 
  had 
  looked 
  over 
  on 
  the 
  S.W. 
  slopes 
  

   of 
  Dartmoor 
  during 
  August, 
  1918. 
  The 
  specimens 
  exhibited 
  showed 
  

  

  