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elm bavk ; (2) a very aberrant form of a Ptfqxra bred from Chislelmrst ; and 

 (3) the ova of Lycxna alcon on a gentian, with a photograph of the same by 

 Mr. Clark. 



Thursday, August 9fh, IDOfi.— The President in the Chair. 



Mr. Sich exhibited living examples of the Tineid, Ochsenheimeria vacculeJla, 

 with a shoi't summary of tlie little that is known of the species. Mr. West and 

 Mr. Ashby, a further portion of the Coleoptera collected by them in the New 

 Forest, including Trachys troglodytes, 'Elater sangidnolentus, E. lythropterus, &c. 

 Mr. Adkin, imagines of Vygdera pigra and P. curtula with hybrids for comparison 

 with Mr. Sich's Pygsera; finally, this last was considered to be a beautiful aberration 

 of P. pigra. Mr. Adkin also showed full-fed larvjB of Acldalia 'marginepunctata 

 (promufata) from Eastbourne ova. Mr. Main, a European Mantis in the pre- 

 imaginal stage, a larva of Papilio podalirius, and a 9 of Parnassius apollo, with ova 

 of the same, all from the Rhone "Valley. Mr. Eayward, living larvae of AgropMla 

 trahealis (sulphuralis) from Cambridge, and of Cupido minima from Horsley. 

 Mr. Tonge, (1) a living larva of Phryxus Jivornica from Lewes ; (2) and a pre- 

 served larva from Alberto, Spain ; (3) a larva of Sesia stellatarum from Dunwich; 

 and (4) a series of photographs of Lepidoptera at rest taken during the Society's 

 Field Meeting at Leith Hill on June 30th, including Bomolocha fontls (crassalis), 

 Cucullia umbratica, Larentia viridaria, &c. Mr. Edwards, var. caeca of Enodia 

 hyperanthus, and a ? TrocMIium crahroniformis from Horsley on July 14th. 



Thursday, August 23r^.— The President in the Chair. 



Mr. Harrison and Mr. Main exhibited (1) a long bred series of Mama orion 

 from ova from a New Forest ? ; and (2) a bred series of Phorodesma smaragdaria 

 from Essex. Mr. Barnett, (1) a short series of Anthrocera irifolli from Wanbury, 

 mostly with confluent spots, and one with ill-developed scales ; and (2) several 

 remarkably pale examples of Epinephele janira. Mr. Crow, living larvae of 

 Melanthia alhicillata on bramble. Mr. Carr, living larvae of Acidalia imitaria 

 from ova on dandelion. Mr. Turner, (1) examples of the Hemipteron, Carpoeoris 

 (Pentatoma) fuscispina, from Morgenbacht hal and Lucerne ; (2) Heliothis pelti- 

 gera taken at Brockenhurst on June 4th ; (3) a series of Bomolocha fontis 

 (crassalis) from Leith Hill in early July ; (4) Mgeria cuJidfonnis from Beacons- 

 field ; (5) Coleophora limoniella bred from larvee taken at Fobbing in 1905, 

 together with a spray of Stafice Umonium showing the larval eases ; (6) specimens 

 of Polyommatus escheri, the small form from Gavarnie in the Pyrenees, with 

 Alpine forms of the same species and of P. iearus for comparison ; (7) on behalf 

 of Mr. Harrison, specimens of Melitsea dictynna from Meiringen with M. athalia T 

 taken at the same place and time ; and (8) and on behalf of Mr. J. W. Tutt, 

 several species of Ascalaphus and Myrmeleon from the Alps. Mr. West and 

 Mr. Ashby, some 50 further species of Coleoptera taken in the New Forest this 

 year, including Calosoma inquisitor, Notiophilus rufipes, Psederus caUgatus, Ips 

 ^i-guttata, &c. Mr. Adkin, a series of Polyommatus hellargus, females, from East- 

 bourne in June, and read notes on the geographical distribution of the blue race of 

 this sex. Mr. Sich, a bunch of poplar twigs, in the leaves of which were the larvae 

 of three leaf miners, Gypsonoma aceriana, Phyllocnisfis sufusella, and Neptieula 



