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Mr. Edwards exhibited a box of Papilios of the tineua group from 

 the Australian region, including a pair of the rare Papilio gamhrhua. 

 He also showed a fossil tooth of the prehistoric ox, Bon lonnifnma, 

 found in excavating at the Eoyal Albert Docks in the Pleistocene 

 river gravel. 



Mr. Blair exhibited a nest and the female of the wasp, PoUstes 

 gallica, brought by him from Meiringen. The female had been 

 kept alive for the last three weeks and continued to feed the grubs 

 in the cells with caterpillars with which she was supplied. 



Mr. J. Piatt Barrett remarked that ha considered, from examina- 

 tion of specimens of Abraxas (jrossulariata of various years, that the 

 1913 captures were of about the average size and not smaller than 

 in the few previous years. He exhibited examples of 1904, -6, and 

 -13, all years more or less dry in the spring, while the larvse were 

 feeding after much rain. 1904 was very sunny and produced pale 

 examples at Margate. Those of 1913 at Forest Hill approximate to 

 dark specimens at Margate in 1906. Other species were also shoAvn 

 to compare in size with 1913 specimens, including Cainptogrannna 

 hilineata, Hypsipetes fitrcata (elittata), Cidaria fulrata, Geometra 

 papiiionaria and Metrocampa iitaniaritaria. Several members were 

 of opinion that the A. f/)-nssiilariata of the present year were quite 

 up to the average size. (See page 115), 



JULY 24th, 1913. 



Mr. Stanley Edwards exhibited the eggs of the common 

 European tortoise, Testndo f/raca ; and also a pair of the beautiful 

 erycinid, Stalachtis evelina, from the Lower Amazons. 



Mr, E. Adkin exhibited specimens of CEcophora pseudospretella 

 which he had bred from hare's fur. 



Mr. Curwen exhibited a number of specimens of Polyonuiiatus 

 icariis, taken recently at Pickett's Hole, near Dorking, which 

 showed variation in the spotting and coalescence of the spots on 

 the undersides. Only one specimen was ab. aicnata, but several 

 were partly arciiata, and several others had united spots on the 

 lower wings. 



Mr. J. P. Barrett read the following Notes on the Migration 

 OP Butterflies : — 



" In May, 1910, when I was at Messina, I was told by one of my 

 son's workmen that I ought to go to his home — a village about 

 five or six miles from Messina, named Cucuraci, where there was 



