1. Proceedings. 
Puss Moth which had made its cocoon in a tin box. The 
caterpillar having no foreign substance to make use of, the 
cocoon was entirely transparent. 
The Rev. E. M. GEtpart exhibited and described a specimen 
of the Common Blue Butterfly (Polyommatus alexis), captured 
by him at Alum Bay, Isle of Wight, which seemed, from its 
markings, to be hermaphrodite; and a specimen of the Lulworth 
Skipper (Pamphila actzon) from Lulworth Cove, Dorsetshire. 
He also exhibited and described a specimen of Erebia medusa, 
from the Hasenberg, Stuttgart, which had many of the 
characteristic markings of an English species (E. blandina), and 
a specimen of the Dark Crimson Underwing (C. sponsa) from 
Brockenhurst, in the New Forest ; also a specimen of the Poplar 
Kitten (D. bifida) taken on a fence in Fairfield Road, on April 
23rd last. He further remarked that after the severe winter we 
had experienced, it would have been expected that insects would 
have appeared later than usual; but the contrary had been the 
case, for hibernating insects had been earlier, and the Poplar 
Kitten was at least a month earlier than usual. It might be 
accounted for by the fact that the cold set in early and was con- 
tinuous. When frost was intermittent, and varied by warm 
weather, the insects were enticed out, and were destroyed by 
the frost which succeeded. 
The PRESIDENT mentioned, with reference to Park Hill and 
Fairfield Road, that the large number of poplar trees which 
had been planted there a few years ago had made a marked 
difference in the insects, and many, such as the Poplar Kitten, 
and others which he enumerated, were now tolerably common, 
which before were scarce or unknown about Park Hill. 
Mr. J. S. Jounson stated the result of his examination of the 
pemmican which had been handed to him to report upon. 
The following objects were exhibited :—Microscopes: Mr. 
H. M. Klaassen, pond life; Mr. E. Lovett, ova of Spiny Lobster; 
Mr. W. Low, Alcyonilla fungosa ; Plumatella repens; Mr. K. 
McKean, section of black coral (Antipathes virgata); Mr. S. 
Palmer, leg of garden spider; Mr. E. B. Sturge, section-stem 
of Perilla *nankinensis ; ; Mr. A. Warner, section through bud 
of lily. —General Objects: Mr. J. S. Johnson, drawings illustra- 
ting the anatomy of the Crayfish; Mr. A. Warner, new model 
student's microscope ; Mr. H.M. Klaassen, Tenby beetlestone ; 
Mr. E. Lovett, 92 species of moths taken this summer between 
Addiscombe and Shirley ; also nest of Meadow Pipit, with 
ege of cuckoo, from Shirley. 
