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captured on the sand-dunes of Dunkirk. He also exhibited 

 an example of Danais plcxippus from Moose Jaw, Winnipeg. 



Mr. Lucas exhibited the rare fungus Clavaria incequalis 

 taken at Oxshott during the Society's Fungus Foray on 

 October 5th, and also specimens of Hyles euphorbia bred from 

 pupae found in Kew Gardens. 



Mr. L. W. Newman exhibited a series of Polia xanthomista, 

 var. nigrocincta, bred from ova from north Cornwall. The 

 larvae were fed on carrot. It was pointed out that it was an 

 easy matter to rear this species from wild collected larvae, 

 which was now done somewhat freely, but to rear the species 

 from ova was a most difficult matter. 



A long series of E. aiitumnaria (alniaria) including a row 

 showing the usual form now bred from in-bred Kent parents ; 

 a row bred by Tugwell, 1882-3, an extremely rich and heavily 

 speckled race ; a long series of males and females, including 

 a few very fine melanic specimens of a rich dark brown colour 

 all over wings, but head and thorax of the usual canary 

 colour; the females being much darker than the males. The 

 typical specimens (there were no intermediates) resemble 

 Tugwell's more than the present race. The whole is the 

 result of a pairing between melanic male and type female. 

 The stock is from a 1906 wild female, which was quite an 

 ordinary specimen. 



Mr. Priske exhibited a series of the local beetle, Necro- 

 phorus interruptus, from Hanwell, caught by baiting a bottle 

 with a dead rat, and placing it in a ditch near a willow plan- 

 tation. Between July and September sixteen specimens were 

 caught. Two examples each of N. ruspator and A T . humator 

 were also found, but no others of the genus. 



Mr. Robert Adkin exhibited a series of Hyponomeuta cagna- 

 gellus, Hub., reared from larvae taken on a Euonymus shrub 

 in his garden at Lewisham, and contributed the following 

 notes : 



" Years ago, when Lewisham was quite a rural district of 

 London, a few spindle-trees (Euonymus europceus), the natural 

 food-plant of the species, were to be found in the hedge-rows, 

 but I have no recollection of finding the larva on them ; and 

 as Stainton, who was a resident in the neighbourhood at 

 that time, does not give Lewisham as one of the known 

 localities for the species in the ' Manual,' it is probable that 

 he also had not come across it in the neighbourhood. Since 

 those times nearly the whole of the district has been built 

 over, chiefly with houses having small gardens, and in a great 

 many of these Euonymus japonicus has been planted as an 



