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April 20, 1807.— Mr. John Linnell, jun., brought for exhihitiona 

 specimen oi Halias quercana, W. V., a species of Lepidoptera new to 

 the Reigate district, captured by himself, at sugar, in Redstone Wood 

 in June, 1856. 



Mr. Sydney Webb brought for exhibition the three following species 

 of Lepidoptera, captured by himself, and new to the Reigate 

 district : — 



Platypteryx hamula, W. V. Beaten from oaks, Redstone 



Wood. 

 Ennomosfuscantaria,'H.asv. Redhill, at light. 

 Nonagria erassicornis, Haw. Redhill, at light. 



The President drew the attention of the meeting to the snow 

 which fell on the 19th of March, about 9.45 a.m., at Reigate : it 

 consisted of small irregular angular pieces of very transparent 

 sparkling ice, either in separate masses, or two or more agglutinized 

 into very irregular shapes ; it was very dry to the touch, and hard. 

 The angular pieces varied in size from that of a small mustard-seed, 

 to a small pea : when several were joined together they had the ap- 

 peai-ance of a snow-flake in the air, but broke up immediately on 

 falling against any hard resisting substance. Later in the day, about 

 11 A.M., snow of the usual kind fell in the city, but very remark- 

 able for the size of the flakes, some of which when measured were 

 one and a half inch to two inches broad and long when spread on the 

 ground : at noon on the same day and same place, within one hour of 

 the snow, frozen rain fell for a short time in round transparent 

 drops. 



The President mentioned that during one of the snow showers of 

 the month a sky lark rose singing, ascending into the snow until it 

 was lost to sight, but its song was still heard in the air. 



He also stated, in reference to the early movement of the sap in 

 trees, that this fact became very apparent in quite an unusual way. 

 A Maple tree had had its branches shortened about the beginning of 

 March, and on the night of the 9th of March it froze rather sharply ; 

 on the morning of the 1 0th of March, icicles, one of which was more 

 than eight inches long, had formed at the ends of the cut branches, 



