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Eare variety of Cassida rubiginosa, MiJLL. — Mr. C. J. 

 Gahan exhibited on behalf of Mr. W. West a remarkable and 

 very rare variety of Cassida rubiginosa, Miill. (= viridis, 

 Fab.), the occurrence of which in this country had not, so far 

 as he knew, been hitherto recorded. One specimen of the 

 variety had been taken by Mr. West in Greenwich Marshes in 

 1876, along with several specimens of the typical form. It is 

 stated by Weise, who described it as vslv. fuUginosa, to be very 

 rare on the Continent. 



Western American Wasp's nest. — Mr. A. E. Tonge 

 exhibited a nest and imagines of Vespa maculata taken in a 

 church porch at Eedlands, California, in April 1913. 



Living larvae of Argynnis aglaia. — Mr. E. C. Joy 

 exhibited larvae of A. aglaia which had just come out from 

 hibernation. The ova were deposited in moss early in August 

 last year, and the larvae, on hatching, went as usual into 

 hibernation immediately, without feeding. They wintered 

 among the moss which was placed in a small bell-jar with 

 damp sand at the bottom; this was removed to a partially 

 sheltered situation in the garden. On Saturday, March 14th, 

 after lightly spraying the moss he had brought the larvae 

 into a warm room, and within a couple of hours they were 

 wandering about on the sides of the glass jar, and had since 

 begun to feed sparingly on young violet. About 80 per cent, 

 seemed to have survived the winter. 



An expedition to the Sarstoon river. — Mr. A. E. Gibes 

 exhibited a number of Lepidoptera from British Honduras, 

 and read the following notes : — 



In September 1913, Dr. F. L. Davis, one of our Fellows, 

 who is resident in Belize, British Honduras, arranged a col- 

 lecting expedition to a village inhabited only by half-civilised 

 Indians and known as San Pedro, on the Sarstoon river, some 

 fifty or sixty miles from the dangerous bar at the river's 

 mouth. The Sarstoon forms the boundary between our 

 colony and the Republic of Guatemala. The trip, however, 

 was not so successful as he anticipated, and particularly was 

 he disappointed at the absence of Syntomid moths, for which 

 he kept a special look-out, and which, it will be remem])ered, 

 he was so successful in finding last year when he took a holiday 



