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received his first commission ; and finally passing through the rose- 

 garden, rejoined our footpath. 



Then, continuing on through the woods of mixed timber within 

 the park, and passing through the gate at its extremity, we emerged 

 upon the pine-covered Crockham Hill Common, where the after- 

 noon was spent. But hardly had we commenced operations when 

 a thin drizzle set in, a twin brother to a Scotch mist, which during 

 the hour that it lasted so damped all the exposed herbage as to 

 make any foi'ui of collecting difficult, and probably accounts for the 

 dearth of notes of captures and observations that have been sent in 

 The only butterflies met with appear to have been a solitary 

 Apliantopus. hyperantiis and two or three Ctoionyinpha painpJn'liis, 

 which were disturbed from their resting places. Flitting among 

 the pines Bupahis piiiiaria was seen frequently, while on the trunks 

 several Ellopia pro^apiaria, Thera variata and Scoparia ambujiialis 

 were found at rest, and, of course, Acidaiia aoersata and Cawpto- 

 liraiiniia bilineata put in an appearance, as did also a straj^ specimen 

 of Bri/nphila peiia, and sundry other equally common species. But 

 if for the time being collecting was poor, the beauty of the country, 

 with the fresh moisture upon it, enabled a very pleasant time to be 

 spent by the party of twenty-three who had assembled, and of whom 

 twenty eventually adjourned to a meat tea at the "George and 

 Dragon," Westerham. 



In conclusion, the Society desires to express its thanks to the 

 Hon. Mrs. Warde for the facilities so kindly extended to the party 

 on the occasion of their visit to Westerham. 



JULY \Q(h, 1913. 



Mr. R. Adkin exhibited series of Ci/aniris an/ioln^, viz. (a) reared 

 in July and August, 1912, from larvte collected at Eynsford, Kent, 

 from dogwood berries, in the previous June; (h) reared in April 

 and May, 1913, from the same lot of larvae ; and (c) reared in April 

 and May, 1913, from larvte collected at Eastbourne, in September, 

 1912, from ivy flower buds. The spring emergences {b and c) 

 closely resembled each other and showed nothing of the heavy 

 bordering of the females present in the summer emergence (a), 

 although in the case of the Eynsford series (b) they had remained 

 in pupa some three months longer than the Eastbourne series (c) ; 

 thus the time of the emergence of the imago appeared to be the 

 dominating factor in fixing its form, irrespective of the time of year 

 at which the larva had fed, or what it had fed upon. 



