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MAY 20th, 1914. 



Mr. Buckstone exhibited the hybrids resulting from a pairing of 

 A'/ysN/rt zonario male and Apocheiiiia hisin'daria female. Some 300 

 ova were laid, of which most were fertile, but the larvae were con- 

 stitutionally weak and gradually died, so that only four imagines 

 were bred, one male and three females. It was noted that the 

 larvae varied but little inter se, and much resembled those of A. 

 hiapidaria. Mr. Newman called attention to the interesting fact 

 that the larva of N. zonaria was smooth, while that of A. liispidaria 

 was rough, suggesting that there must be considerable structural 

 difference between the two species, and that such a crossing was 

 rare. 



Mr. W. West (Greenwich) exhibited a specimen of the extremely 

 rare hemipteron, I'yi/olampis bidentata, taken by him in the New 

 Forest in the early part of the present month. Saunders, " Hem- 

 iptera-Heteroptera," p. 160, 1892, says, " Of this curious genus we 

 have only one species, and its place in our list depends on a solitary 

 record." It was taken " under a piece of red sandstone, Quatford, 

 Salop, in September," by Thos. Marshall. 



Mr. L. W. Newman exhibited a living pupa of Stri/mun pnini, 

 and called attention to its close resemblance to a bird's excrement. 



Mr. Gahan exhibited a species of " mealy bug," which he had 

 met with two years running on flowering currant in his garden at 

 Bedford Park. He supposed it to be Fxeuddcofcun citri, a species 

 met with as a pest in hothouses. 



MAY 23rd, 1914. 



Field Meeting at Pickett's Hole, Ranjiore Common. 



Leaders, E. Step, F.L.S., and Hy. J. Turner, F.E.S. 



Altogether 26 members and friends took part in this Field Meet- 

 ing, of which nearly a dozen went down in the early part of the 

 day and collected in the woods, lanes and pastures of the northern 

 slope of Ranmore Common. Fortunately for them the weather 

 was fine and much good collecting was obtained; but unfortunately 

 for the afternoon party there was torrential rain in London and 

 right down as far as Ashtead ; and the Ranmore Common area, 

 although not actually under rain, was cold and dull. At Leith 



