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dogwood. They made holes to extract the contents. — Mr. Stonell, an 

 Abraxas sylvata (ulmata) taken recently in the Clapham Koad. — Mr. 

 Sich, the ova of Coleophora gryphipennella on a rose-leaf. It was an 

 upright egg and abundantly supplied with gum. — Mr. Main, living 

 larva? of Papilio machaon at different ages ; and also an old stem of an 

 umbellifer, containing cells of a species of carpenter-bee. — Mr. Step 

 distributed copies of the photograph of the members who attended the 

 field-meeting at Seal Chart on May 27th. 



July 27th. — The President in the chair. — Mr. Carr exhibited the 

 larva? of Epione advenaria, from Seal. — Mr. Stonell, a putty-coloured 

 larva of Odontopera bidentata, from Yorkshire ; and reported that he 

 had taken a fair number of Canobia rufa at Worcester Park. — Mr. 

 Main, a photograph of a colony of the larva? of Engonia (Vanessa) 

 polychloros in the New Forest, from which larva? he had already bred 

 more than sixty imagines. — Mr. Noad Clark, photographs of (1) the 

 ova Coleophora gryphipennella on leaves of rose; (2) a much-magnified 

 photograph of the micropyle of the same; and (3) the ova of Algeria 

 (Sesia) chrysidiformis. — Mr. Sich said that the larva of C. gryphi- 

 pennella was at first a true miner, boring direct from the base of the 

 ovum into the leaf. 



August 10th. — The President in the chair. — Mr. Main exhibited the 

 larva? of Hadena cuntigua, from ova laid by a female specimen obtained 

 in the New Forest. The colour-variation was most extreme. — Mr. 

 Sich, living larva? of (1) Nisoniades tages and (2) Syrichthus malvce, both 

 feeding well on garden strawberry. They fed at night and retired in 

 the daytime into " tents " of leaves loosely spun together. The former 

 hybernated as a larva, the latter as a pupa. — Mr. West (Greenwich), 

 two very local species of Hemiptera, taken at Yarmouth in July ; 

 Gnathoconus picipes, at roots of violets ; and Chorosoma schillingii, on 

 marram grass. Mr. Turner, (1) a species of Mdipoda which was very 

 common at Gavarnie in the Hautes Pyrenees, and (2) a living speci- 

 men of Locusta viridissima taken by him at the same place. A discus- 

 sion took place as to the latter species, and it was considered to be 

 carnivorous rather than vegetarian in its diet. — Mr. R. Adkin read a 

 short note from Mr. Kirkaldy on " The Entomology of the Lowlands of 

 Oahu (Hawaiian Islands)." — Hy. J. Turner, Hon. Rep. Secretary. 



City of London Entomological and Natural History Society. — 

 Sept. 5th, 1905.— The President in the chair.— The Rev. G. H. Raynor 

 and Mr. Charles Capper were nominated for membership of the Society. — 

 Rev. C. R. N. Burrows exhibited living pupa? of Ochria ochracea taken 

 in thistle-stems at Mucking, Essex; he remarked on the fact that in 

 this district the species does not seem to feed on burdock (Arctium 

 lappa) or mugwort (Artemisia vulgar is). ^-Mr. J. A. Clark, Lgcmia icarus 

 from Folkestone, including abs. obsoleta and striata. — Mr. A. W. Mera, 

 Acidalia rusticata bred from larva? reared on dandelion ; the specimens 

 were generally considered to be larger than the average of captured 

 imagines. Mr. Mera also exhibited Agrotera nemoralis from Brentwood, 

 a capture he considered somewhat remarkable for this locality. — Mr. V. 

 E. Shaw (on behalf of Mr. Newman, of Bexley), two hybrid imagines, 

 the offspring of Notodonta dromedarius, female, and N. ziczac, male ; 

 the exhibitor stated that part of the brood emerged in the autumn of 



