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claws and of the antennae had been shed. (2) An example of 

 Heliothis peltigera taken on June 4th, near Brockenhurst. It 

 was in good condition, and was caught flying about midday 

 among heather not far from a pine plantation. The Rev. 

 G. H. Raynor has reported that he captured a specimen of 

 the same species on July 1st at Maldon, Essex, flying over 

 flowers at 10.20 p.m. Mr. G. W. Hooker has reported 

 taking no less than seven specimens during June near 

 Bournemouth, all between eight and nine o'clock in the 

 evening, flying over flowers. Probably others have also been 

 taken, but have not been recorded yet. (3) A short series of 

 Bomolocha fontis (crassalis), c?s and ? s, taken at Leith Hill 

 in early July. (4) An example of Algeria (Sesia) culiciformis 

 taken at Beaconsfield on June 10th. (5) Specimens of 

 Coleophora limoniella bred from larvae taken at Fobbing in 

 the autumn of 1905, together with a spray of Statice Umonium 

 (its food plant), showing larval cases in situ, made of the 

 calyces of the flowers. The imagines have extremely 

 narrow wings and when at rest are most difficult to detect. 

 The larva, when full fed, crawls to the stouter part of the 

 stem, bores a cavity, affixes its case to the mouth of this 

 hole, closes the opening with a thin membrane, and in due 

 time turns to a pupa. During the winter the case drops off, 

 leaving the entrance to the cavity free for the imago to burst 

 the thin closing-membrane at its emergence in July. (6) 

 Specimens of Polyommatus escheri taken by him at Gavarnie, 

 in the Pyrenees, in August, 1905, with examples from the 

 Alps for comparison. It was pointed out that in size and 

 appearance they much resembled examples of P. icarus taken 

 at the same locality. (7) On behalf of Mr. Harrison, speci- 

 mens of M elites a dictynna from Meiringen, with examples of 

 M. athalia ? taken at the same place and time. (8) On 

 behalf of Mr. J. W. Tutt, examples of Acalaphus coccajus 

 from Cannes, A. longicornis from Cogne and St. Michel, 

 A. italicus, from Cogne, Myrmcleon formicates, from Digne y 

 and M. formicalynx from Cogne. (9) Several specimens of 

 the curious bird's nest fungus, Cyathus striatus, found on 

 Bitchet Common, Sevenoaks, and belonging to the Nididariece 

 group of the Gastromycetes. 



Messrs. W. West and S. Ashby exhibited further species, 

 some fifty in number, of the Coleoptera taken by them in 

 the New Forest between May 26th and June 9th. 



Mr. Robert Adkin exhibited a series of Polyommatus 

 {Lyccena) bellargus ( $ ) taken at Eastbourne in June last ; he 

 said that the species occurred there somewhat more commonly 



