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a light looped band from the costa, including the discoidal spot. Mr. Step 

 communicated a list of British Stalk-eyed Crustacea, including the new species, with 

 references to all old species described in Bell's Crustacea. 



November 28th, 1895.— The President in the Chair. 



Mr. Chipps, of Barnes, S.W., was elected a Member. 



Mr. R. Adkin exhibited a specimen of Mesogona acetosellcB, Fb., a species new 

 to Britain. It was taken on October 26th, near Brighton. Mr. Adkin also exhibited 

 a series of Coremia rnunitata, Hb., from Hoy, with series of the same species from 

 Shetland and Paisley and of C. designata, Kufn., for comparison, and read notes on 

 the variations exhibited. Messrs. Barrett, Tutt, and Carrington remarked on the 

 habit of the species of flying during the daytime in elevated, exposed and Alpine 

 regions. Mr. H. Moore, a long series of Ocneria dispar, L., bred from a Bordeaux 

 female. They were all small, owing to the larvae having been fed on hawthorn, it 

 was thought. Mr. Carrington, four xanthic specimens of Epinephele Janira, L., 

 from Leigh, Essex, taken in the same field in 1890-91. Also he showed typical and 

 lemon coloured forms of Hesperia lineola, L., from Shoeburyness. Mr. Clark, a 

 number of large and well-executed Micro-photographs. Mr. Hy. J. Turner, a specimen 

 of the moorland form o^ Noctua festivaj^h.jivora. CavWsle, Crambus pinellus,!^., 

 from Box Hill, a very rosy specimen of Anticlea rubidata, Fb., bred from Chichester, 

 and a pair of Coccyx cosmophorana, Tr., from Carlisle. A long discussion took place 

 on the life-history of this latter species. Mr. McArthur had bred a number from 

 the knobs produced by Retinia resinella a year after they had emerged, and said that 

 he found the larvae in the frass of this species. It was not found at Rannoch, but 

 had been recorded from several localities where R. resinella was not known to occur. 

 Mr. Ashdown, a bred specimen of Acronycta aJni, L., from Richmond, and a specimen 

 of Eumenes coarctata. Mr. Briggs, an Orthopteron, Periplaneta australasice , taken 

 at Kew. 



December \2th, 1895. — The President in the Chair. 



Mr. Searancke, of Mitcheldean, Gloucester, was elected a Member. 



Mr. Barrett exhibited, on behalf of Mr. Brooks, of Rotherham, a long bred 

 series of Boarmia repandata, L., including black forms and forms having the dark 

 markings intensified but not extended ; a series of the grey form of Tephrosia 

 biutidularia, Bork., both from Rotherham ; and a large number of specimens of 

 Lepidoptera collected near Lake Tanganyika from November, 1892, to February, 

 1893, including two recently named species, viz., Pseudospiris paidiformis, Butl., 

 and Sapeea Trimeni, Butl. It was noted that several species exhibited occurred in 

 Natal. Mr. Carpenter, Tceniocampa munda, Esp., T. gothica, L., T. stabilis, View., 

 T. incerta, Hufn., T. ptilverulenta, Esp., Pachnobia raJricoso, Fb., and red T. gracilis, 

 Fb., taken at sallow bloom in his own garden at Streatham. Col. Partridge, a nearly 

 pure white Cucullia absinthii, L., bred at Portland. Mr. Barrett, on behalf of 

 Dr. Mason, a number of extreme varieties of Lepidoptera, including Agrotis segetum, 

 Schiff., uniformly pale and destitute of markings, a unicolorous A. corticea, Hb., a 

 dark suffused Acronycta alni, L., a unicolorous pale Noctua augur, Fb., extreme 

 dark and light forms of A. lucernea, L., A. simu/ans, Hufn., A. agathina, Dup., and 



