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on June igth. These included Cephalanthera pallens, Oro- 

 banche minor, and Githago segeUnn. 



Mr. Green exhibited a number of specimens of Leucania 

 vitellina, taken at sugar in East Kent, in October, 1907 and 

 igo8. 



Dr. Chapman exhibited specimens of the recently much- 

 discussed species, Pieris manni, taken by him in the Eastern 

 Pyrenees during the present spring. 



Mr. Turner exhibited a number of figures of Arctia caja 

 varieties ; also the group photograph of the delegates and 

 members of the Congress of the S.E. Union of Scientific 

 Societies, held at Winchester. 



Mr. Robert Adkin exhibited a specimen of a Nonagria from 

 Sussex that had been named edchteni, Tutt, and examples of 

 the species commonly known as N . neurica, Hb. {arundineta 

 Schmidt), for comparison. He called attention to the 

 decided brown colour of the thoracic crest with its clear 

 white apex of the former, as compared with the ashey-brown 

 crest with its dark-brown apex in the latter species ; also to 

 the very distinct white dot and the two less well-defined 

 dots on the disc of the wing, which did not appear in the 

 specimens of N. neurica. He said it was well known that 

 there had been a good deal of controversy as to whether the 

 Sussex insect should be referred to N. neurica, Hub., and a 

 new name found for the species that we had for many years 

 known by that name, or whether the Sussex insect was a new 

 species. From such evidence as had been adduced and 

 from what he had been able to see of the few specimens of 

 the Sussex insect that he had been able to examine he was 

 inclined to follow Tutt's view, that we were right in regarding 

 the insect that we had been accustomed to call A^. neurica 

 as Hubner's species, and that the Sussex insect was new to 

 us and should be entitled to the name edehteni that had been 

 given to it. 



Mr. E. Step read the following report he had prepared as 

 one of the Delegates of the Society : 



Report of Delegates to the South-Eastern Union 

 OF Scientific Societies. 



The fourteenth annual Congress was held at Winchester 

 on June gth to 12th, and was attended by both your delegates. 

 It appears to the writer of this report that the duties of a 

 delegate to this Congress are three in number : 



