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broad black bands on all the wings, and an exceptionally- 

 large basal patch on the fore-wings. The latter was quite 

 the gem of the collection." 



Mr. W. West (of Greenwich), exhibited three rare species 

 of Hemiptera, which he had recently taken in the New Forest : 

 Eysarcoris ceneus, Corizus maculatns, and Lopus gothicus. 



Mr. Clark exhibited an example of Amorpha populi, from 

 Paddington, of an unusually pink colour instead of the 

 customary dove-coloured suffusion. 



Mr. South reported that he had met with Myelois cribrum 

 in his garden at Upper Tooting. It was also noted that 

 A cidalia incanaria was abundant throughout the suburbs, and 

 that the larvae of Malacosoma neustria were to be met with 

 everywhere. Hipparchia semele and Cupido minima were 

 reported as being then on the wing. 



AUGUST 8ik, 1907. 



Mr. South exhibited a Malacosoma hybrid, and read the 

 following note: — "On August 13th, 1906, Mr. Percy 

 Richards kindly gave me a small cluster of eggs that had 

 been deposited by a female M. castrensis, which had paired 

 with a captured male M. neustria, introduced to the cage 

 in which it had emerged from the pupa. Larvae hatched 

 from most of the eggs in due course, but they did not 

 take kindly to the food provided for them, which com- 

 prised plum, birch, and sallow. Four larvae, however, fed 

 up, and three of these pupated during the second and third 

 weeks in July. A female moth emerged from one of the 

 pupae on July 28th, and another on August 6th, the latter 

 very much crippled ; and one larva is still feeding. From 

 the somewhat superficial examination that I made of the 

 full-grown larva 1 noted that it agreed with that of M. neu- 

 stria in most details, but the dorsal line was very thin, and 

 bluish as in M. castrensis, and the red lines on each side of 

 the dorsal were broad. The head and the markings upon it, 

 and also the black spots on the first thoracic segment, 

 except that they were larger and inclined to unite, were those 

 of M. neustria. The bluish line along the sides was dotted 

 and freckled with black more thickly than in M. castrensis. " 



Mr. Sich exhibited the eggshells, mines, cocoon, and an 

 imago of the micro-lepidopteron Ccmiostoma laburnclla, from 

 leaves of the laburnum (Cytisus laburnum) at Chiswick. 



Mr. Montgomery exhibited a bred specimen of Toxocampa 

 cracccs from Cornwall. 



