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Mr. Goulton exhibited a fine female of the sawfly, Sirex 

 gigas, from Sutton. 



Mr. Newman exhibited an exceptionally pink form of 

 Saturnia carpini, a dark suffused form of Smerinthus ocellatus, 

 and a dark form of Arctia caja, all bred ; together with 

 living larvae of Ennomos autumnaria from Dover, and exam- 

 ples of the cocoons of Anthrocera filipcndulcE, the pupae from 

 which had been extracted by birds. 



Mr. Harrison made the following interesting observation 

 on " False 'Sembling " at Abersoch : — " On July 14th in the 

 neighbourhood of Abersoch, Carnarvonshire, I found a very 

 much crippled moth, which with some hesitation I con- 

 cluded was a female Odoncstis potatoria ; the wings were 

 almost scaleless and very short. I put the specimen in 

 an ordinary glass-bottomed pill-box, intending to try 'sem- 

 bling in the evening on the sandhills. My companion 

 put the box in his pocket, and shortly afterwards, about 

 4 p.m., netted a moth which came persistently flying around 

 him. This moth was a male Lasiocampa quercus. In the 

 evening males of 0. potatoria " sembled " freely. Several 

 were boxed and one paired with the crippled specimen, 

 which undoubtedly was 0. potatoria. Whether it attracted 

 the male L. quercus in the afternoon, or whether it was 

 merely a coincidence that the latter came flying around, I am 

 unable to say, but am inclined to think it came on a false 

 scent. I may add that we had not been taking L. querah, 

 and not any of our boxes had contained any female of this 

 species during the season." 



AUGUST 22nd, 1907. 



Mr. Harrison exhibited two series of Hyria muricata (auro- 

 raria) from Wicken and from the New Forest. There was 

 considerable variation in each series, but little difference 

 between the series, except that the Hampshire specimens 

 included an example of the New Forest pink-suffused form. 

 He also exhibited a seed head of the garden Polyanthus, 

 from the centre of which, among the bases of the flower 

 pedicels, had sprung a shoot with leaves ; and stated that 

 this growth had been noticed for several years in his garden 

 at South Woodford. 



Mr. Turner exhibited a number of specimens he had just 

 received from West Australia, including Delias aganippe, a 

 Pierid, with brilliant and conspicuously coloured underside ; 



