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Lord Walsiugham exhibited a series of Cacoecia podcma, Scop., reared 

 from larva3 feeding on LapcKjeria and palms m Messrs. Veitcb's conser- 

 vatories in King's Eoad, Chelsea, including some very dark (melanic) 

 varieties. The Honble. Walter Rothschild stated that he had taken 

 the species on lime. Mr. Hampson and Mr. Tutt also made some 

 remarks on the habits of the species. Mr. C. Fenn exhibited a long 

 series of Sclenia lunaria, bred from one batch of eggs, which included 

 both the spring and summer forms ; and also two unforced specimens, 

 which emerged in November. He remarked that the variation 

 between the two emergences, viz., spring and summer, is considerable, 

 and also the range of variation inter se, especially in the spring form ; 

 but it is very remarkable that the summer form has one or two 

 representatives among the specimens of the spring emergence. He 

 said that the parent female was taken at Bexley in May, 1893. 

 Mr. F. Lovell Keays exhibited, on behalf of Mr. A. Lovell Keays, a 

 variety of L. alexis (female), having the marginal ocelli on the hind 

 wmgs entirely without the usual orange-coloured lunules. The 

 specimen was captured at Caterham on May 22nd, 1894, and was the 

 first example of the species observed by the captor this season. 

 Mr. Barrett made some remarks on the specimen. Mr. J. H. Durrant 

 exhibited a series of Stefianoptijrka pij/pineana, Hb., taken at MerLon, 

 Norfolk, between the 25th March and the middle of April last. 

 Lord Walsingham made some remarks on the species. Mr. H. Goss 

 read an extract from a report from Mr. J. R. Preece, H.M. Consul 

 at Ispahan, to the Foreign Office, on the subject of damage caused 

 to the wheat crop in the district of Rafsinjan, by an insect which 

 was called "Sen" by the natives, and which he described as "like 

 a flying bug, reddish ohve in colour, with heavy broad shoulders." 

 Mr. Goss said he had been asked by Mr. W. H. Preece, C.B., to 

 ascertain, if possible, the name of the species known to the natives 

 as " Sen." Dr. Sharp said that in the absence of a specimen of the 

 insect it was impossible to express an opinion as to the identity of the 

 species. The Rev. Canon Fowler exhibited, for Miss Ormerod, speci- 

 mens of Dilohoderus abdenis, Sturm, Kucmnium arachnoides, Brull., 

 and Megathopa violacea, Blanch., which she had received from the La 

 Plata district of the Argentine Territories, where they were said to 

 be damaging the grass crops. He also read notes from Miss 

 Ormerod on the subject. Mr. Hampson raised an important point as 

 to what was the legal " date of publication " of Part I. of the 

 Transactions of the Society, 1894. He pointed out that the question 

 of the priority of the names of certain new species described therein 

 would depend upon the date of publication. A long discussion then 

 ensued, in which Dr. Sharp, the Honble. W. Rothschild, Mr. Goss, 

 Mr. McLachlan, Lord Walsiugham, Prof. Poulton, and Mr. Verrall 

 took part. Prof. Frauz Klapalek, of Prague, commuuicated a paper 

 entitled "Descriptions of a new species of Uaphidia, L., and of three 

 new species of Trichoptera from the Balkan Peninsula, with critical 

 remarks on Fanorpa gibber osu, McLach." Lord Walsingham then 

 took the chair, and a Special General Meeting convened under 

 Chap. XVin. of the Bye-Laws was held.— H. Goss & W. W. Fowlek, 

 Hon. Sees. 



