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by Mr. Barrow's family. A vote of thanks for this highly 

 valued set of specimens of the manipulative skill of the 

 Section's late member was passed. 



Mr. James Cosmo Melvill exhibited a fine <J specimen 

 of the Oleander Hawk Moth (CJiaerocampa Nerii), collected 

 by the late Mr. George Crozier, at Prestwich, in 1846. The 

 insect was quite perfect, and finely coloured. He also men- 

 tioned that two other specimens from the same locality, both 

 collected at light, in 1886 and 1891 respectively, are in the 

 possession of Mr. J. R. Hardy and the Manchester Museum, 

 Owens College. As only twenty-one individuals have been 

 recorded as having occurred in these islands, it is interesting 

 to consider that one-seventh of the total number have 

 occurred within five miles of Manchester. It is as yet 

 impossible to ascertain whether there is a colony of this 

 insect established in this locality, and, if so, on what they 

 have been accustomed to feed, and it is well worthy the 

 attention of the entomologists of this neighbourhood. 



Mr. SCOWCROFT exhibited some varieties of Argynnis 

 ag/a/o, from Scotland ; a series of X antJiia cerago [silago 

 South), and a set of dried flowers preserved most success- 

 fully so as to show their natural forms and colours. The 

 results obtained, even in such difficult flowers as orchids 

 and the Christmas rose, were very remarkable and perfect. 



