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from Sydney, N.S.W., and the adjoining district (including the 

 nearest part of the Blue Mountains), comprising about 120 

 species, of which 70 belonged to the genus Stigmodera. Also a 

 dried specimen of Angojyhora cordifolia, Cav., a small tree of 

 the natui-al order Myrtacese, the flowers of which are the great 

 attraction in New South Wales for the Buprestidiv, as well 

 as for very many other Coleoptera. (2) Specimens of the 

 " Bugong " Moth, Agrotis spina, Guenee, from Jervis Bay, 

 N.S.W. (refeiTed to at the previovis meeting); and (3) Carthpea 

 scUurnoides, Walk., a remarkable moth from Perth, W.A., 

 now referred to the Geometrina, but possessing an extraordinary 

 superficial resemblance to a Saturniid in aspect, though not to 

 any one of the known Australian species of that family. 



Colonel C Swinhoe said the moth was a Monocteniid ; and 

 there was nothing in Australia which it could mimic. 



Mr. A. J. Chitty exhibited a specimen of Peribalus vernalis, 

 Wolff., a rare bug of which only five or six specimens appear 

 to have been taken, and pointed out that as the records in 

 Saunders Hemiptera included Cumbex'land and Weston-super- 

 Mare, and his own specimen was taken at Huntingfield, Kent, 

 it was probably overlooked. Mr, Claude Morley had also 

 taken one specimen in Essex. 



Dr. F. A. DiXEY exhibited a remarkable pale form of 

 Mamestra brassicse, taken by Dr. (!. B. Longstaff and himself 

 at Morthoe, North Devon, on July 16, 1903. The specimen 

 showed the usual markings of the species on a cream-coloured 

 ground, faintly shot with pinkish or apricot. There was a 

 slight smoky shade over the central ai'ea of the fore-wing, the 

 hind-wings were yellowish-grey, the thorax yellowish-brown, 

 the abdomen apricot-coloured with a dorsal chain of dark 

 tufts. Mr. C. C Barrett had examined the specimen, and 

 pronounced it probably unique. Sir George Hampson had 

 also seen it, and pointed out that it was provided with the 

 spur on the anterior tibia, which is characteristic of M. brassicse 

 among the allied European species. 



Papers, etc. 

 The President, Professor Poulton, read the following 

 observations on the ^reearious hibernation of certain 



