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Mr. Robert Adkin exhibited, on behalf of Mr. R. Armstrong 

 Adkin, series of the snails Helix hurtensis, Miill., and //. neworalis, 

 L., and called attention to the great variation exhibited by both 

 series, and particularly to one of the latter, a yellow specimen with 

 a single white band ; also a long series of H . aspersa, Miill. , all 

 taken on the chalk near Eastbourne, which showed much variation 

 both in colour and pattern. 



Mr. Adkin also exhibited an original copy of " A Naturalist's 

 Calendar," published in 1795 by Aikin, being a series of extracts 

 from Gilbert White's diaries, and a copy of " A Nature Calendar," 

 published for the first time in 1911, under the auspices of the 

 Selborne Society, and edited by W. Mark Webb, being a facsimile 

 copy of Gilbert White's Calendar of Flora, D766, or "Flora Sel- 

 borniensis : with some coincidences of the coming and departure of 

 birds of passage, and insects, and the appearing of Reptiles, for the 

 year 1766." He said that he thought it would be interesting to 

 compare the meagre extracts from White's writings, given in the 

 former publication, with the full text of one of his diaries as given 

 in the latter. 



Also a spider's web mounted on glass with the spider [Epeiia 

 diadeinata) in situ. It was prepared by the late Mr. H. McArthur, 

 and was a remarkable piece of mounting, every strand of the web 

 being in position just as one might find it in one's garden on an 

 autumn morning. 



Mr. W. West (Greenwich), Hon. Curator, placed on the 

 tables some 16 drawers of the Society's Collections (British) : — 



2 of Orthoptera, presented by Mr. Malcolm Burr and others ; 



2 of Neuropteka, presented by Mr. W. J. Lucas, Mr. W. J. Ash- 

 down, and others ; 



I of Hymknoptera ; 



II of CoLEOPTERA, largely presented by Mr. West himself. 



Mr. West also showed 12 drawers of British Rhynchota, from his 

 own collection, comprising Heteroptera, Homoptera and Psyllid.e. 



Mr. E. A. Newbery exhibited a number of interesting, rare and 

 local species of British Coleoptera, comprising Apion .seluuni, nov. 

 sp., undescribed. Trar/u/phla'us dii/italis, Gyll., new to British list. 

 Hoiiialota aqiiotilis, Thorns., recently added to the British list. 

 LothnibiiDii ripicola, Czwal., recently added to the British list. 

 Mijitin'cdpora hrecipcs, Butler, new, and recently described. 

 Thiii'ihiiia pallidum, Newb., new, and recently described, ('aitodere 

 ari/iis, Reitt., introduced sp. ; the only specimen yet recorded from 

 Britain. DeriiwstL-s iieniviaiins, introduced sp. (from Liverpool). 



