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Mr. Moore exhibited some eggs found on the feathers of birds 

 in the aviaries at Knowsley. They appeared to belong to some 

 unknown parasite on birds. 



Mr. S. Stevens exhibited a fine bred specimen of Hypena 

 crnssalis ; the larva had fed on Vaccinlum MyrtiUus. 



Mr. Douglas exhibited specimens of Coccyx Strohllana, L., 

 and read a note of their habits as follows : — 



*' Early in May last year Messrs. Shepherd and Waring took 

 this species for the first time in this country in a fir plantation a 

 mile and a half beyond Croydon. I made several expeditions to 

 the place in the hope of getting it, but without success, until on 

 the 19th of May last year I saw it flying in plenty round the tops 

 of the spruce-firs in the hot sunshine, between the hours of ten 

 and one, and not afterwards ; but I could only capture one occa- 

 sionally, as it descended within reach. Later in the day I beat 

 the trees all round without obtaining one, hence I conclude that it 

 remains and breeds in the higher branches. Mr. H. Doubleday 

 considers, and I think correctly, that this species is the true Tinea 

 Strobilella of Linne. Tortrix Strohilana of Ilaworth is the same 

 as Psciidotomia fraternana of Stephens, and the Coccyx splendidii- 

 lana of Guenee. It resembles the present species, but is smaller, 

 has not so many metallic markings, and is found on oaks." 



Mr. Douglas also exhibited a specimen of Retinia Turionana 

 (Tinea Turionella, L.), a species very rare in this country, taken 

 by him from a Scotch fir at Wickham wood on the 27th of May. 

 He also showed a specimen o? Microj)teryx AUionella, Fab. (^Tinea 

 Ammanella, Hiib.), a species that appeared to be more common in 

 the north than in the south of England. 



Mr. Shepherd exhibited a remarkable variety of Arciia vilUca, 

 and specimens of Coccyx Strobilana, which he had reared from 

 cones of spruce fir, one of which he showed. The larvae had fed 

 in the centre, changed to pupae about two inches from the apex, 

 and when ready to emerge in the perfect state these had worked 

 their way to the exterior along the tube they had previously 

 formed. Mr. Stephens said the larvae, pupae, and cone were 

 figured in Ledermiiller's " Mikroskopischke Gemuths und Augen 

 Ergobung," vol. ii. tab. Ixiv., published in 1762. 



Mr. Westwood read descriptions of two new exotic Colcoptera. 



The Secretary read a paper by Mr. Th. Desvignes on Macrus 

 and Coleocentrus,— two of Gravenhorst's subgenera o( Ichneumons ; 

 and exhibited two specimens taken by Mr. Th. Desvifrnes at 

 Vienna. 



Mr. Waterhouse submitted to the meeting his descriptions of 



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