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imagines of Cleogenc peletieraria. He also showed specimens 

 of C. nivcata from Carinthia, a closely allied species, in 

 which both male and female were milk-white, while in the 

 former only the female is milk-white, the male being uni- 

 formly blackish. C . peletieraria is exclusively confined to the 

 Pyrenees, but by some authorities is considered to be only a 

 geographical race of the more widely spread C. niveata of 

 the Alps. 



OCTOBER $ih, 1907. 



Field Meeting at Oxshott. 

 Leader: Mr. Stanley Edwards, F.L.S. 



This meeting was the Annual Fungus Foray of the 

 Society, but the morning section of the party, who took 

 quite a different route, devoted themselves mainly to 

 collecting Lepidoptera. Large flocks of gold-crests were 

 noted among the tall pines. In an outlying portion of 

 the woods Chesias spartiata was disturbed, a specimen of 

 Emmelina monodactyla was taken, and larvae of Thyatira 

 derasa, Drepana laccvtula, and D. falcataria were found. 

 Near the Black Pond the cases of Coleoplwra alticolclla 

 were found sparingly, where usually they are abundant. 

 Mr. Sich met with a considerable number of webs of Swani- 

 merdammia griseocapitella on the scattered birch bushes. 

 Larval cases of C. fuscedinella and C. ibipennella were also 

 noted. A Pentatomid, Peizodorus lituratus, occurred on the 

 birch trees. 



Mr. Step reports that : " Most of the early autumn fungi of 

 the district have been previously recorded in our ' Proceed- 

 ings,' and many of them were again found ; but owing to the 

 spell of dry weather, with low temperature for several weeks 

 prior to the meeting, specimens were not as numerous as 

 usual. Among those worthy of note may be mentioned : — 

 Lactarius picinus, Hydmnn repandum, Amanita spissa, Maras- 

 mius ramealis, Polystictus abictinus, Clavaria ina:qualis, Collybia 

 maculata, Boletus radicans, B. variegatus, and a form of the 

 same growing among Sphagnum at the Black Pond, which 

 differed from the type in having unchangeable flesh, and the 

 stem attenuated downwards ; C ortiuarius mucifluus, Pholiota 

 spcctabilis, and Clitopilus prunulus." 



Mr. Lucas remarks that the Fungus Foray was too early 

 this year by about a month, and communicates the observa- 



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