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Somerset, and described by him in the ' Entomologist's 

 Monthly Magazine,' Oct. 1892, pp. 250-253. Mr. McLachlan 

 stated that another specimen of this species had been caught 

 about the same date in Claygate Lane, near Surbiton, by Mr. 

 Edward Saunders, who discovered that it was parasitic on a 

 homopterous insect of the genus Lihiirniti, and had also 

 described it in the Ent. Mo. Mag., pp. 249-250. 



Mr. J. M. Adye exhibited, for Mr. McRae, a large collection 

 of Colias ediisa, C. ediisa var. hcUce, and C. Jtyale, all taken in 

 the course of five days' collecting in the neighbourhood of 

 Bournemouth and Christchurch, Hants. There were twenty- 

 six specimens of the variety helice, some of which were remark- 

 able both in size and colour. He stated that Mr. McRae 

 estimated the proportion, this season, of the variety Jielice to 

 the type of the female as one in fifty, and the proportion of 

 Colias hyaJe to the type of the female of C. edusa as one in 

 one hundred. Mr. Adye also exhibited two specimens of 

 Dc'iopeia pulchella, recently taken near Christchurch. The 

 Chairman, Mr. Hanbury, Mr. Jenner Weir, and Mr. Merrifield 

 commented on the interesting nature of the exhibition, and on 

 the recent extraordinary abundance of C. edusa and the var. 

 helice, which was probably not exceeded in 1877. 



Mr. Dallas Beeching exhibited four specimens of I'lusia 

 )iioneta, lately taken in the neighbourhood of Tunbridge Wells. 



Mr. Gervase F. Mathew sent for exhibition, and contributed 

 notes on, two specimens of Fiusia nioneta and their cocoons, 

 which were found at Frinsted, Kent, on the 3rd September 

 last. It was stated that the first moth, the male, emerged on 

 Sept. 5th, and the second, the female, on Sept. 13th. The 

 cocoons, of which seven were discovered, were not difficult to 

 see, being spun-up upon the under side of the leaves of 

 monkshood, without any attempt at concealment. Un- 

 fortunately five of the moths had already emerged, so that 

 it was probably a fortnight or so too late for what was pre- 

 sumably the second brood. Mr. Mathew stated that he found 

 two small larvae of a I'lusia feeding upon monkshood on the 

 10th Sept. ; that they had grown a very little since then, and 

 on the 4th Oct. appeared as if they intended to hybernate. 

 He thought they might be nwneta, but they bore a strong 



