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Tineid, Ochscnheimcria vacculclla. He said that, as far as he was 

 aware, the life-history of this species has never been worked 

 out. The larva was probably an internal grass-feeder, like 

 0. birdella. The moth, he felt sure, only resorted to trees, 

 houses, etc., for the sake of shelter. It was very rare in 

 collections till 1861, when Mr. Scott found one under the 

 bark of a willow, and another on an oak (" Int.," ix, 

 p. 123), thus giving a clue as to its imaginal habits ; it had 

 previously rarely been taken in houses. The specimens 

 exhibited were taken off the bark of oaks. They are most 

 difficult to take, as they sneak away into the deepest crannies 

 they can find ; they seldom fly, but crawl away. One has to 

 drive them into the box with a piece of grass stem, and they 

 require a lot of heading off before they are safely lodged in 

 the box. Mr. Adkin suggested smoking out, which is, no 

 doubt, a good plan. Ova had been obtained. 



Messrs. W. West and Ashby exhibited a further number of 

 species of Coleoptera, all taken in the New Forest between 

 May 25th and June gth, the chief of which were : 



Buprestidce (one species) : Trachys troglodytes, by sweeping 

 in New Copse. 



Elateridce (seventeen species) : Elatcr sanguinolenta, E. 

 lythropterus ; Corymbites tessellatus, C. mctallicus, C. quercus ; 

 Sericosomns brunneus. The others were common species, all 

 taken at Whitethorn bloom. 



Telephoridce (eleven species) : Rhagonycha tcstacea, at the 

 sides of streams, beating sallows principally. The others at 

 Whitethorn bloom. 



Mr. Sich again exhibited the aberrant specimen of a 

 Pygccra that he had exhibited on July 26th, and Mr. Adkin 

 brought series of hybrid P.pigva {S) x P. curtula (?) and 

 P.curtida (<$) x P.pigra (?); also of P.pigva for comparison 

 with it. After a careful scrutiny the conclusion arrived at 

 was that Mr. Sich's specimen did not embrace the hybrid 

 characters, but that it was a very beautiful and strongly- 

 marked form of P. pigra. 



Mr. R. Adkin exhibited full-fed larvas of Acidalia margine- 

 punctata (promutata), the progeny of moths taken at Eastbourne 

 in June last. Of upwards of a hundred larvae the majority 

 had pupated, or were on the point of doing so, but nine or ten 

 of them were still quite small, probably in their second or 

 third skins, and would undoubtedly hibernate, although they 

 had all been kept in one cage under exactly similar conditions. 



Mr. Hugh Main exhibited a living example of a Mantis, 

 Mantis religiosa, in the pre-imaginal stage, a larva of Papilio 



