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A specimen of Pliisia moncta, captured on honeysuckle at 

 Pyrton (1900), was presented by Rev. J. W. B. Bell. This 

 interesting moth, which was unknown in this country not 

 many years ago, has been hitherto unrepresented in our 

 British Collection. 



A beetle, Balaninus glandhtni, from near Bladon (1900) was 

 presented by Miss C. A. Brown, and Hcdobia impcrialis from 

 Oxford (1900) by J. E. Pogson Smith. 



A bred specimen of the moth Anarta inyrtilli, together 

 with its cocoon and pupa-case, from Dartmoor (1899), was 

 presented by H. E. Butler, Esq. 



A Dipteron from Oxford (1900) was presented by Dr. W. H. 

 Jackson, of Keble College. 



A specimen of Polyoinmat2is coiydou from Boar's Hill 

 (Sept. 12, 1900) was presented by H. St. G. Gray, Esq., 

 together with C cdiisa and N. lucina from Dorset and 

 Wiltshire. The former capture is of great interest, for the 

 " Chalk-hill Blue " has never before, so far as I am aware, 

 been observed so near to Oxford. 



An interesting series of 8 SmcrbitJnts poptdi were bred in 

 the Hope Department (June-July, 1900). In the excessive 

 heat of the latter month in 1900, the moths appeared in a 

 week or two after pupation, instead of emerging in June, 

 1 901, after a pupal period of normal length. All the specimens 

 are of an unusual shade of colour, a probable result of the 

 high temperature. 



Four moths and a dipterous insect were captured in York- 

 shire (1900), and presented by Professor Poulton and E. P. 

 Poulton, Esq. ; a remarkably small worker wasp ( Vcspa 

 vulgaris), from St. Helens, Isle of Wight (1900), was pre- 

 sented by Ronald W. Poulton. 



Sixty-nine insects of several Orders from the neighbour- 

 hood of St. Helens, Isle of Wight, and 18 from various 

 localities in and near Oxford, were captured (1900) and 

 presented by Professor Poulton. 



A pair of Vanessa iirticac (" The Small Tortoise-shell 

 Butterfly"), captured in the meadows by the Chervvell at 

 Oxford (May, 1900), was presented by Professor Poulton. 



