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along would take possession of the throne and so on ; so that 

 five were taken in one afternoon off the same tree. When on 

 the throne they wex-e extraordinarily confident, as more than 

 once the chosen branch was struck hard without disturbing 

 them. Yet if one happened to settle on a lower branch the 

 slightest movement even of the hand frightened it away at 

 once. 



Mr. Claude Morley exhibited the specimen of Biastictus 

 vulneratus, Sturm., first recorded in Great Britain in the 

 current number of the Entomologists' Monthly Magazine, and 

 a rare blue form of Phratora vitelline, taken on low herbs, 

 from Tuddenham Fen, Suffolk. 



Mr. G. C. Champion exhibited specimens of Nanophycjes 

 durieuri, Lucas, a beetle from Central Spain, with drawings of 

 the larva, pupa and perfect insect. 



Professor E. B. Poulton, F.E.S., stated that Mr. A. H. 

 Church, M.A., of Jesus College, Oxford, had observed the 

 larvse of a species of CticulUa (probably C. verbasci), feeding 

 upon Buddleia glohosa which was growing against a wall in 

 the Oxford Botanical Gardens. Mr. Church had sent shoots 

 of the same plant to a friend at Warwick, and these when 

 grown in a similar position in his garden, were all attacked 

 by the same species during the past summer (1902). There 

 were three of these plants growing about ten yards apart, each 

 about five feet high, surrounded by roses, and very incon- 

 spicuous. It is possible that the eggs are laid upon the 

 Buddleia because of the very rough general resemblance in 

 certain respects between its leaves and those of Verbascum, 

 in the same manner, as the speaker suggested in 1887, that 

 the common food-plants of Smerinthus ocellata, viz. apple and 

 sallow, may be explained by the parent moth having mis- 

 taken the one for the other (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1887, p. 

 314). In Section 11 of the memoir cited it is shown that many 

 young larvfe, on emergence from the egg, are able to feed 

 upon strange species of plants, which, later they would refuse, 

 if they had become specialized to one of the recognized food- 

 plants. 



Mr. E. McLachlan, F.R.S., said that no doubt the first 

 food-plant of the young larva was an important factor. 



