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from the New Forest, and varieties of Lycena icarus, Rott. Mr. 
J. T. Williams: a fine series of Hriogaster lanestris, L., and 
varieties of Hybernia leucophearia, Schiff. Mr. E. Joy: Nyssia 
hispidaria, Fb. Mr. Stevens: Asteroscopus nubeculosa, Esp. 
Messrs. South and Tugwell: fine series of Hybernia marginaria, 
Bork., var. fuscata. Mr. South said the specimens exhibited 
were bred from ova received from Mr. J. Harrison, of Barnsley, 
who stated that the eggs were deposited by a dark female which 
had been in union with a melanic male. Mr. Billups exhibited 
the following Coleoptera taken by him in Headley Lane on the 
22nd March, 1886 :—Panagadeus quadripustulatus, H.M.; Lebia 
chlorocephala, K. H., and Brachinus crepitans, L.; also two 
species of Diptera,—Sciaria pulicaria, Hoff., and T’richocera regela- 
tionis, L.,—bred from apples. Exhibits in other branches of 
Natural History were also of an interesting character. Mr. 
Cooper exhibited several groups of eggs of British birds. Mr. 
W. West read a paper on “ The Entozoa,” which was illustrated 
by diagrams and the exhibition of microscopical specimens. 
April Lith. R. Adkin, Esq., F.E.S., President, in the chair. 
—Messrs. T. D. A. Cockerell, A. J. Windybank, T. P. Newman, 
W. H. Wright, T. Gibbs, jun., and W. F. V. de Kane, were 
elected members. Mr. Mera exhibited a fine series of Syntomis 
phegea, Linn., bred from ova deposited by a female taken in Italy. 
Mr. E. Joy: a variety of Canonympha pamphilus, L., taken at 
Hadley Wood, near Barnet. Mr. Tugwell: a bred series of the 
Dover form of Cidaria suffumata, Hb. Mr. Wellman: specimens 
of Phoxopteryx upupana, Tr. Mr. Billups exhibited a curious 
construction which had been found by Mr. J. T. Williams at the 
root of a tree in his garden at Foots Cray. The formation con- 
sisted of about fifteen or sixteen fusiform cocoons composed of a 
felt-like material, and arranged side by side, vertically and trans- 
versely, the whole forming a pear-shaped mass. Hach cocoon 
contained a larva which Mr. Billups said was certainly not 
dipterous or hymenopterous, but might probably be the larva of 
a species of Lepidoptera. Several members concurred in this 
opinion.—H. W. Barker, W. A. Pearce, Hon. Secs. 
