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them the results of his experiments. They had received many useful 
hints at different times from the Doctor, and he did not doubt at the 
next meeting he would give them a few more. 
He also had to bring to their notice some slides of sections of in- 
sects cut through the optic apparatus by Mr. J. S. McIntyre, similar 
to the section of insect eye exhibited on the occasion of Dr. Hallifax’s 
paper on the “Invertebrate Eye,” in which the several parts were seen 
7x situ. The preparations were mounted in Canada balsam. Mr. Curties 
had also kindly sent him a preparation of the head of the blowfly, 
mounted in fluid, in which, while the several parts retained their 
natural form, the whole was transparent. Among other parts he might 
call attention to the central teeth on the disc of the proboscis, which 
stood out admirably. 
The meeting then became a conversazione, when many very in- 
teresting objects were exhibited by Messrs. WONFGR, SEWELL, R. 
GLAISYER, and SMITH, the last-named showing some beautiful coal 
sections, made by himself. 
JULY 10TH. 
ORDINARY MEETING.—REV. E. N. BLOOMFIELD, ON 
“ THE MACRO LEPIDOPTEROUS FAUNA OF GUEST- 
LING AND ITS IMMEDIATE NEIGHBOURHOOD.” 
The greater part of the insects enumerated had occurred in the 
immediate vicinity of the Rectory, some few in a heathy wood at 
Pett, and a few also near the sea in the same parish. The district lies 
on the central axis of the Wealden on the Hastings sands, much of 
the soil however being stiff clay. 
The Diurni were very poorly represented by 32 species, scarcely 
any of the rarer species occurring, the best, Co/éas Hyale and Vanessa 
Antiopa, having only occurred as single specimens, and the same 
might be said of V. comma album, and Argynnis Aglaia, or Adippe, 
