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late in appearing this year. Mr. Turner had taken a speci- 

 men of Heliothis peltigera at Brockenhurst on Whit-Monday. 



JUNE 28tk, 1906. 



Mr. McArthur exhibited specimens of Dicranura furcula and 

 Axylia putris, taken at the electric lights in Hammersmith, 

 and reported that he had seen numbers of Triphcena pronuba, 

 Agrotis exclamationis, and Xoctua plccta at the same lights on 

 June 23rd. He also showed a pupa of Thecla pruni. 



Mr. Bellamy exhibited two specimens of Phryxus livornica 

 taken on June 1st and June 12th, at Ringwood, a fine speci- 

 men of Hesperia malvce, var. taras, from Holmsley, and a form 

 of Abraxas grossulariata, with the marginal dark markings 

 produced inwards, forming partial rays. 



Mr. Tonge exhibited a photograph of the nest and eggs of 

 the yellow bunting, taken on the occasion of the Society's 

 Field Meeting at Ranmore Common on June 16th. He also 

 showed batches of the ova of Aporia cratccgi laid on the leaves 

 of hawthorn, received from Mr. Powell, of Hyeres. 



Mr. Penn-Gaskill exhibited living examples of Harpiptcryx 

 xylostella and H. ncmorella, with the elongated cocoons from 

 w r hich they had just emerged. The curious larvae were found 

 feeding on honeysuckle on Wimbledon Common. 



Mr. West (Greenwich) exhibited a series of the rare and 

 local Hemipteron, Pceciloscytus vulncratus, a species only dis- 

 covered in 1879. 



Mr. Main exhibited the egg-case of Phyllodromia germanica, 

 together with the young which had emerged from it. He 

 stated that soon after the egg-case was deposited by the 

 female the young began to emerge. 



Mr. Robert Adkin exhibited examples of Notodonta chaonia 

 and Lophoptcryx cannelita that had emerged in April, 1906, 

 from 1904 pupae, both from Sussex parents. 



JULY 1 2th, 1906. 



The death of Mr. F. G. Cannon was announced. 



Mr. Bellans, of Bedford Park, W., was elected a member. 



Mr. Goulton exhibited the full-fed larvae of Phytometra 

 vividaria {cenea), and reference was made to the fact that the 

 species belonged to that section of the Noctuae in which the 

 larvae had only three pairs of abdominal claspers. They fed 



