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an apparently uninjured example of E. jacohcea, given him by Mr. 

 Eoland Trimen, F.R.S. Tl:ie moth was flying slowly at midday in 

 his garden at Woking, when a robin captured it on the wing and 

 flew with it behind a bush. After about three minutes the bird flew 

 away, and Mr. Trimen found the moth lying upon the ground. — Dr. 

 T. A. Chapman, several unusual forms of some common "blues" 

 taken this year in the Valley of the Isere and at Courmayeur. He 

 said that the " blues " of this region are generally large and more 

 than usually variable ; and that it is also the headquarters in Western 

 Europe of Agriacles alexius, Frr. — Mr. Donisthorpe, a number of 

 males of Ponera coarctata which he had swept at Box Hill, and 

 remarked that no one living appeared to have taken males in Britain. 

 Also males, females, and workers of Formicoxenns nitidulus, taken in 

 a nest of F. rufa at Weybridge. Also males, females, and workers of 

 Leptothorax tubero-affinis, a form new to Britain. Also a male, and 

 winged and deiilated females of Anergates atratulus, which lives in 

 the nests of Tetramorium ccespitum. — Mr. Hy. J. Turner, on behalf of 

 the Eev. C. E. N. Burrows, a long series of bred Gdastrina argiolus. 

 He stated that the larvae had occurred each year for some time past 

 in the garden at Mucking, feeding on Portugal laurel, attacking the 

 flower buds in the early summer. The whole of the specimens were 

 unusually large. Many of the females had a strong development of 

 whitey-biue on the basal half of the costal area, and there was a 

 tendency to develop a whitish suffusion in the discal area of the fore 

 wing. The form closely resembled the Nearctic form pseudargiolus. 

 He believed that the food-pla:it had not hitherto been recorded. He 

 also exhibited a curious colour-print of an " Entomologist," published 

 in 1830 in London, in which the whole of the figure was ingeniously 

 made up of various species of the Insecta, only the face being 

 human. — Mr. L. W. Newman, specimens of Dianthcecia, bred from 

 North Kent wild larvae, resembling exactly, both in size and colora- 

 tion, Diantlioicia capsophila from the Isle of Man. This appeared to 

 confirm the opinion of several leading men that D. cap^ophila and 

 D. carpophaga are the same species. He also showed for comparison 

 varied series of D. carpophaga ; a pair of D. capsopliila and D. capsin- 

 cola. — Mr. W. G. Sheldon, a series of CoZias //ec/a, from the Porsanger 

 Fjord, Arctic Norway, with specimens of the other orange species 

 occurring in Europe for comparison. — Mr. W. J. Lucas, a living 

 male of Labidura riparia (the Giant Earwig), taken on the shore 

 near Christchurch, Hants. He also exhibited a drawing giving the 

 colour of the living insects, and demonstrating how well they are 

 protected by resemblance to the pale sand of the Hampshire coast. — 

 Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker, specimens of Hepialus pijrenaicus, a 

 species found not uncommonly on the higher parts of Mount 

 Canigou, with the apterous female. Also a fine form of Lyccsna 

 avion, and a specimen of Heodes liippotho'd that was at once radiated, 

 obsolescent, and asymmetrical. — Mr. Douglas Pearson, a drawer of 

 Ehopalocera from the Black Forest and the Swiss Alps, including an 

 albinistic specimen of Erebia lappona, an unusually large female of 

 Melitaa varia, the large Black Forest form of Colias palceno, 

 Brenthis pales from Pontresina, with under side hind wings of a deep 

 purple-red, and others. — Mr. J. A. Simes read the following note : — 



