THE SECOND WINTER MEETING. XXXIX. 



" Dr. Crallan most kindly sent me four eggs out of several laid by his 

 captured moth. Of these three hatched, one larva dying when about half 

 grown. The other two duly pupated, and were placed in moss in a greenhouse, 

 where the one exhibited emerged on January 7th, 190'). The other pupa was 

 then healthy, but died very shortly afterwards. I believe that no other 

 members of this brood attained the perfect state, with the exception of three 

 bred by Mr. Eustace Bankes. My larvae were fed upon dock, chiefly on plants 

 growing in pots out of doors. The moth is a very rare British species, and 

 specimens captured are, I be'ieve, always immigrants, and there is no record that 

 I know of its surviving our winters. In 1904 an unusual number of specimens 

 were taken at Bournemouth and elsewhere. Dr. Crallau's moth laid fifty eggs, 

 hatched June 16th. All his larvae died of mould." 



BY ME. C. S. PEIDEAUX : 



A cinerary urn, ploughed up on the farm of Mr. W. S. Foot, of Bincombe. It 

 was full of calcined bones and badly broken. 



He had tried to repair it. The large flat stone which he produced was placed 

 on top of the urn. The depressed barrow where the urn was found was on the 

 south side of Came Wood, and there were two or three other barrows there which 

 were nearly ploughed down level, so that he was expecting almost at any time 

 to hear that another urn had been found. The whole of the ground all the way 

 round was full of flint chips, and he picked up several excellent scrapers. Mr. 

 Gray, of Taunton Castle, had told him that it was a very early form of urn. 



Mr. F. J. BARNES : The urn appears to be identical with 

 those we found at Portland some time ago. About 160 were 

 uncovered in the course of two or three weeks, and half the 

 barrows are still unopened. 



In this case, as in others, the covering of flints which 

 protected the interment was probably taken away and sold for 

 road metal, and the barrow, being thus deprived of its 

 protection, fell an easy victim to the plough. 



BY THE REV. S. E. V. FILLETJL : 



A silver paten cover, dated 1573, of an Elizabethan chalice, which has 

 disappeared, and a pewter alms plate, dated 1,682. 



Neither of the two pieces was recorded in " Nightingale's Church Plate of 

 Dorset " (Ed. 1889). Mr. Filleul had written : - 



" When I came to Dorchester the tradition was that the old silver paten 

 exhibited had been found buried near the altar of the old church, removed in 

 1845. I wrote to Mr. Alfred Spicer, now of Bishop's Cauudle, an old church- 

 warden at that time, to know if this was the true account of it. He replied that 



