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worthy of record appears to have been taken or observed, and so 

 the usual hsts have not been sent in by those who attended. In 

 spite of this drawback, those attending appear to have enjoyed the 

 walk, and to some of these it may have been the means of intro- 

 ducing them to several spots ordinarily very productive and not 

 overworked. Starting from Leatherhead station the route lay 

 •over the Mole and through the river meadows to Thorncroft ; then 

 by Downs Lane to the Ermyn Way above Cherkley, and south to 

 the open Mickleham Downs, brilliant with the blossoms of stone- 

 crop, rock- rose, and viper's bugloss. Thence through the beechwoods 

 we descended to Mickleham Church, and took tea at the " Banning 

 Horse." After tea the return to Leatherhead was made across 

 Norbury Park and the meadows again. 



Mr. Sich reports that the feiture of the afternoon to him was the 

 abundance of a Tortrix of the genus Sciaphila, probably Auhjcctana, 

 but he did not actually identify the species. They came out of 

 certain bushes in clouds. Other species noted by the same gentle- 

 man were Stii/nwnota compusiteUa, Chrosis tessercoia (alcella) , and the 

 tineids Geleckia terrella, Tinea cloacella, and Micropteryx sfppcUa. 

 He also took one larva of Gracilaria semifascia (?) on maple. 



JUNE 26th, 1913. 



Mr. Main exhibited the pupa and living larva of Parnassius 

 ■apollo, found by him near Meiringen ; a living salamander, and 

 the larva of the tiger-beetle, Cicindela si/lratica, from the same 

 locality. He said that although he had spent some time searching 

 he had failed to find the larvfe of Ascalapltus, but had met with 

 the larva3 of the ant-lion Myrmiieon in considerable abundance. 



Mr. R. Adkin exhibited some partly-formed apples from Felixstowe 

 which had been bruised and damaged by the hail of the recent 

 storms. He said that the crops were completely spoiled in many 

 places. Mr. Step said that at Ashtead the branches of trees were 

 in many places quite stripped of leaves, and where the latter 

 remained they had pieces cut out of them by the hailstones. 



Mr. Coxhead exhibited galls on leaves of beech, and coloured 

 drawings of the same. They were subsequently found to be 

 caused by a cecidomyid, Mikiolo fapi. 



Mr. A. E. Gibbs exhibited a series of Enddo'e cardauiiufs, and 

 contributed the following notes : — 



" This series is from Sicil}^, taken in the neighbourhood of 



