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DECEMBER 13th, 1906. 



Mr. Hugh Main, B.Sc, F.E.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Harrison and Mr. Main exhibited a long series of 

 Anticlea rubidata, bred this year from ova from a N. Cornwall 

 female, with some from S. Devon for comparison. The 

 Cornish insects have less red coloration, and are generally 

 greyer than the Devon specimens. 



Mr. Goulton exhibited a number of capital photographs of 

 larvae in their resting and feeding positions. 



Mr. Garrett exhibited a nice series of Agriades (Lyccena) 

 corydon, from Purley ; and Limenitis sibylla, taken at Arundel, 

 Sussex, in July, 1906. 



Mr. W. J. Kaye exhibited a number of Syntomid moths 

 from British Guiana, which showed strong constriction of 

 the basal segments of the abdomen, after the manner of the 

 Aculeate Hymenoptera. The species included Eumcnogaster 

 pseudosphecia, Sphecosoma testacea, E. hcemacera, and Trichura 

 mathina. Several other species, in addition to the con- 

 striction, had white lateral streaks to the abdomen, where 

 the constriction occurred, causing the abdomen to appear 

 more narrowly reduced than it really was. Such species 

 included Corematnra aliasia, and Syntrichura virens, the latter 

 having a dorsal white streak in addition, causing the insect 

 to look like an Aculeate to a marked extent, although in 

 reality the species was not so far advanced with the narrowed 

 abdomen as many others. Finally, a species of Phcia 

 (apparently undescribed) was shown, which had no real 

 constriction whatever, yet which had broad white streaks 

 laterally and dorsally, and gave the insects an undoubted 

 Hymenopterous appearance. 



Mr. Ray ward and Mr. Tonge showed the ova of Bithys 

 (Zephyrus) querciis, in situ, just below the winter buds of the 

 terminal twigs of oak. They had been found in considerable 

 numbers at Ranmore Common. 



Mr. Turner pointed out that in the interstices of the 

 terminal buds of the twigs of oak exhibited, were the ex- 

 tremely small hibernating cases of a species of Coleophora, 

 presumably C. lutipennclla. 



Mr. Alfred Sich exhibited five specimens of a small moth, 

 Tinea pallescentclla, Stt., and contributed the following note : 



" This species was first described by Stainton in his ' Sup. 

 Cat.' (1851), from a specimen taken at Liverpool. In the 

 * Ent. Ann.' (1857), is a more extended description, in which 



