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Mr. Stevens mentioned that a specimen of Callimovplia Hera (the Jersey 

 tiger-moth) had been taken at St. Margaret's Bay, near Dover. 



The Secretary read a note from the Eev. Fitzroy Kelly Lloyd, of Pitten- 

 weem, N. B., enclosing for inspection a worm measuring two inches in 

 length, extracted from the abdomen of an earwig. Mr. Pascoe said that it 

 was one of the Nematode worms, and was probably a Filaria. 



Mr. Forbes exhibited a weevil (evidently not indigenous to Britain), taken 

 alive amongst some Orchids at Ilighgate, supposed to have been imported 

 from Ecuador. Mr. Pascoe pronounced it to be a Cholus. He subse- 

 quently gave the following diagnosis, under the name of 



Cholus Forbesii. 

 C. ovatus, niveo-squamatus, maculis nudis aterrimis variegatus, quarum 

 una in medio elytrorum majuscula, supra rugoso-punctatus ; rostro 

 pedibusque fortiter punctatis. Long, (rostr. excl.) 5 lin. 



Mr. William Cole exhibited several series of specimens of Ennomos 

 angularia, which he had bred, from eggs laid by the same female, with a view 

 to ascertain whether any changes could be traced to the influence of the 

 food-plant. The result went to show that no marked change in colouration 

 took place in the specimens which were fed on oak, hawthorn, lime or lilac, 

 although, taken as a whole, they were all less richly yellowish than a 

 number of specimens taken at large, a series of which was exhibited for the 

 sake of comparison. As was to be expected, the size and fineness of the 

 specimens varied much with the change of food, oak producing the largest, 

 and lilac the meanest specimens. 



Mr. Enock exhibited microscopic slides containing some beautiful pre- 

 parations of Polynema ovulorum, one of the Proctotrypidse, and other minute 

 Hymeuoptera. 



A letter was read from Mr. E. Higgins with reference to some specimens 

 of Deilephila Euphorbias, exhibited at a meeting of the Society on the 17th 

 of September, 1873, which were then stated to have been captured in the 

 larva state in the neighbourhood of Harwich. Some doubt was expressed 

 at the time, as it was stated that the food-plant did not grow in that neigh- 

 bourhood ; but about the middle of September last he had visited Harwich, 

 in companj^ with Mr. E. W. Janson, and they were afterwards joined by 

 Mr. Durand (from whom he had received the specimens of D. Euphorbiae), 

 who undertook to show them the place of capture, and they not only found 

 the food-plant growing there, but in three other places nearly half a mile 

 further on. 



Paper read. 



Mr. Frederick Smith communicated " Descriptions of new Species of 

 Cryptoceridai belonging to the Genera Cryptocerus, Meranoplus and 



