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markings were much intensified along the usual irregular 

 lines and the bands filled in for the most part with the same 

 rich brown. 



Messrs. Harrison and Main exhibited (i) Nemeophila 

 rnssula, a series bred from ova obtained from a female taken 

 in Delamere Forest in July, 1904, also a few captured 

 specimens for comparison ; (2) Callimorpha dominula, a series 

 bred from larvae taken near Deal. 



Mr. Sich exhibited the specimens referred to in the follow- 

 ing extract from the " E. M. M.," xvi, p. 226, 1905 : 



" Two specimens of this insect were recently sent me for 

 determination by Mr. Alfred Sich of Chiswick, who (in 

 company with his brother, Mr. Leonard Sich) took them in 

 the middle of June near Hailsham, in Sussex. It does not 

 seem to have been authentically recorded from Britain 

 before, so far as I know ; earlier records were based on the 

 species now known as atmoriella. The unicolorous species 

 of A rgy rest hi a present difficulties which are probably not yet 

 fully understood ; and therefore, when visiting Merton Hall, 

 I took the opportunity to compare these specimens with 

 Lord Walsingham's continental material and to get his 

 opinion on them. Lord Walsingham and Mr. J. H. Durrant 

 both agreed with me that they were referable to the true 

 illuminatella, and their identity may therefore be taken as 

 established. 



"The species is markedly smaller and more yellowish than 

 atmoriella, but is especially distinguished from it by the much 

 paler hind-wings ; atmoriella feeds on larch, illuminatella on 

 pine (species doubtful, or perhaps more than one). Ocnero- 

 stoma piniariella, which might be confused with it, is abund- 

 antly distinct structurally by the reduced neuration and 

 shorter palpi, and is greyer. Mr. Sich reports that the 

 specimens were beaten from Pinus (species not ascertained) 

 in a wood which also included larch and other trees ; the 

 insect was common, but was regarded at the time as being 

 0. piniariella, from which, on subsequent examination, he 

 found it to be distinct. I hope that the discoverer will now 

 complete his interesting record by finding the larva and 

 correctly identifying the food-plant. 



" I may add that the description in my ' Handbook ' is 

 drawn from the true illuminatella (not from atmoriella, to 

 which Staudinger in his Catalogue refers it), but the locali- 

 ties cited are erroneous. — E. Meyrick." 



Mr. W. J. Kaye exhibited (1) a pair of black Boarmia 

 gemmaria {rhomboid aria) , bred from ova laid by a Bexley 2 ; 



