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nearly out, and on Mickleham Downs we found numbers of 

 the bird's-nest orchis {Neottia nidus-avis). 



Among the Lepidoptera captured or noted were Enclidia 

 glyphica, Zonosoma linearia, Strenia clathrata, Melanippe nion- 

 tanata, Campto gramma bilineata, Dichorampha sequana, Venilia 

 viacidata, Asthena candidata, Eupithecia lariciata, Chloroclystis 

 coronata, Phibalapteryx vitalbata, Cidaria russata, Mamestra 

 dentina, Callophrys ruhi, Epinephele ianira, Ccenonympha pam- 

 philus ; also larvae oi Lithosia deplana, and Laspeyria flexida. 



A few Coleoptera were taken by sweeping, including 

 Dromius linearis, Oxyporusmfns, Priohium castanenm, Callidium 

 alni, Grammoptera tabacicolor, Cistela mnrina, Magdalis 

 armigera, Liparus coronattis, etc. 



I am indebted to Messrs. R. Adkin, W. J. Ashdown, 

 J. H. Carpenter, and B. H. Smith for the material of these 

 lists. 



The ramble concluded at Burford Bridge Hotel, where 

 a party of twenty-four members and friends sat down to tea. 



^UNE 24.th, 1909. 



Mr. Edwards exhibited a fossil sponge, Ventriculites im- 

 presses, found in the Lias at Upminster, in Essex, and com- 

 municated the following note : 



" In the white chalk of Sussex, Wiltshire, and Norfolk, 

 Ventriculites occur in great numbers, V. radiatus being, 

 perhaps, the commonest. This species frequently forms the 

 nucleus of flints, the silica just covering it, and thus assuming 

 its shape. The general shape of these Ventriculites is that of 

 an old-fashioned wine-glass." 



Mr. Newman exhibited a freshly emerged living specimen 

 of Sesia andreniformis from N. Kent, and a very curiously 

 partially gynandromorphous specimen of Satiirnia carpini, in 

 which the right side was normal male, the left fore-wing, top 

 half male, and bottom half female, the left hind-wing male, 

 splashed with a few female markings ; antenna on the right 

 side normal male, on the left halfway between male and 

 female ; the body large, but not quite so large as that of a 

 normal female. It was bred in May, igog, from a North 

 Kent larva. 



Mr. Smith exhibited living full-fed larvae of Pachnobia 

 leucographa. 



Mr. Lucas exhibited photographs of plants observed at 

 Ashtead and Mickleham during the Society's Field Meeting 



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