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dogwood. They made boles to extract the contents. — Mr. Stonell, an 

 Abraxas sylvata [ulmata) taken recently in the Clapham Eoad. — Mr. 

 Sich, the ova of Coleophora gryphipennella on a rose-leaf. It was an 

 upright egg and abundantly supplied with gum. — Mr. Main, living 

 larvfe of Fapilio machaon at different ages ; and also an old stem of an 

 umbellifer, containing cells of a species of carpenter-bee. — Mr. Step 

 distributed copies of the photograph of the members who attended the 

 field-meeting at Seal Chart on May 27th. 



July 21th. — The President in the chair. — Mr. Carr exhibited the 

 larvae of E-pione advenaria, from Seal. — Mr. Stonell, a putty-coloured 

 larva of Odontopera bidentata, from Yorkshire ; and reported that he 

 had taken a fair number of Ccsnobia rufa at Worcester Park. — Mr. 

 Main, a photograph of a colony of the larvse of Evgonia [Vanessa) 

 polychloros in the New Forest, from which larvae he had already bred 

 more than sixty imagines. — Mr. Noad Clark, photographs of (1) the 

 ova Coleoj)hora yryphipennella on leaves of rose ; (2) a much-magnified 

 photograph of the micropyle of the same; and (3) the ova of j'Egeria 

 \Sesia) chrysidiformis. — Mr. Sicli said that the larva of C. yryphi- 

 pennella was at first a true miner, boring direct from the base of the 

 ovum into the leaf. 



Auyust IQth. — The President in the chair. — Mr. Main exhibited the 

 larvte of Hadena contigua, from ova laid by a female specimen obtained 

 in the New Forest. The colour-variation was most extreme. — Mr. 

 Sich, living larvffi of (1) Nisoniades tages and (2) Syrichthns malvcB. both 

 feeding well on garden strawberry. They fed at night and retired in 

 the daytime into " tents " of leaves loosely spun together. The former 

 liybernated as a larva, the latter as a pupa. — Mr. West (Greenwich), 

 two very local species of Hemiptera, taken at Yarmouth in July ; 

 Gnathoconus picipes, at roots of violets ; and Chorosouia schillingii, on 

 marram grass. Mr. Turner, (1) a species of JEdipoda which was very 

 common at Gavarnie in the Hautes Pyrenees, and (2) a living speci- 

 men of Locusta viridissima taken by him at the same place. A discus- 

 sion took place as to the latter species, and it was considered to be 

 carnivorous rather than vegetarian in its diet. — Mr. R. Adkiu read a 

 short note from Mr. Kirkakly on " The Entomology of the Lowlands of 

 Oahu (Hawaiian Islands)." — Hy. J. Turner, Ho7i. Rep. Secretary. 



City of London Entomological and Natural History Society. — 

 Sept. 5th, 1905. — The President in the chair. — The Rev. G. H. Raynor 

 and Mr. Charles Capper were nominated for membership of the Society. — 

 Rev. C. R. N. Burrows exhibited living pup^e of Ochria ochracea taken 

 in thistle-stems at Mucking, Essex; he remarked on the fact that in 

 this district the species does not seem to feed on burdock (Arctium 

 lappa) or mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris). — Mr. J. A. Clark, Lycmna icarus 

 from Folkestone, including abs. ohsoleta and striata. — Mr, A. W. Mera, 

 Acidalia rusticata bred from larvas reared on dandelion ; the specimens 

 were generally considered to be larger than the average of captured 

 imagines. Mr. Mera also exhibited Agrotera nemoralis from Brentwood, 

 a capture he considered somewhat remarkable for this locality. — Mr. V. 

 E. Shaw (on behalf of Mr. Newman, of Bexley), two hybrid imagines, 

 the offspring of Notodonta dromcdarius, female, and N. ziczac, male ; 

 the exhibitor stated that part of the brood emerged in the autumn of 



