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ornamental shrub or as hedges. In June last I noticed on 

 one such shrub in my own garden a couple of webs of the 

 insect, from the larvae in which the series exhibited was 

 reared ; and on inspecting the gardens of houses in the roads 

 covering an area of possibly a square mile around my own I 

 found hardly any of them free from the webs, while in some 

 of them the shrubs were literally covered with them. I hear 

 that in some other parts of the London suburbs a similar 

 state of things existed. This appears to suggest that the 

 insect has found its way in from the spindle-trees of the 

 country side, and finding in the cultivated Euonymus a food- 

 plant suitable to its tastes, is likely to become as great a pest 

 in our gardens as its near ally, H. padcllus, often is on the 

 whitethorn and apple. 



" In speaking of this insect I have used the name by which 

 I believe most British entomologists recognise it, but it is 

 one of those unfortunate species whose synonomy appears 

 to be in a hopeless muddle, and it really seems a pity that 

 this Euonymus-feed'mg Hyponomcuia should not be allowed to 

 retain Scopoli's appropriate name of evonymcllus, and the 

 bird cherry (Prunus padus) feeding species the equally appro- 

 priate name of padi given to it by Zeller, instead of the mis- 

 leading name of evonymcllus applied to it in our lists, on the 

 possibly somewhat doubtful assumption of priority." 



Mr. Adkin also exhibited ova of Tortrix pronubana, in situ 

 on the leaves of Euonymus japonicus. 



Dr. Hodgson exhibited a specimen of Chcerocampa (There- 

 tra) porcellus, taken at Reigate in July, 1907, having the 

 right wings unusually rosy, while the left wings had the 

 yellowish markings predominant and the rose colour almost 

 suppressed ; a large number of Lycarna (Polyommatus) icarus, 

 both male and female, upper and under sides showing a 

 good deal of minor variation, and taken in Surrey, Kent, 

 and Sussex. 



Dr. Fremlin exhibited several varieties of Vanessa (Aglais) 

 urticce. There was only one discal spot on the fore wings, 

 the black blotches were considerably enlarged, and in some 

 cases united, while the hind wings were much more suffused 

 with black than usual. 



Mr. McArthur showed a novel method of mounting the 

 webs of spiders between two sheets of glass, showing the 

 tenant and its prey in sitil. 



Messrs. West, Tonge, Main, Dennis, and Lucas exhibited 

 a large number of lantern slides. 



Mr. Turner exhibited a number of species of Lepidoptera 



