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Mr. Dennis exhibited a branch of juniper, Jiiniperiis com- 

 munis, from Llanberis. It was of the mountain form known 

 as var. nana, dwarf and recumbent in habit owing to the 

 constant exposure to the violence of the wind. Mr. Step 

 called attention to the fact that he had last year noted the 

 same dwarf and recumbent habit in numerous shrubs and 

 herbaceous plants growing on the open and exposed Dunge- 

 ness peninsula. The same thing occurred in the case of 

 furze on exposed headlands, but in this form of juniper the 

 dwariing produced a shortening and broadening of the leaves, 

 which overlapped one another, and gave a yew-like character 

 to the branches. 



Mr. H. Moore exhibited several species of the genus Heli- 

 conitis belonging to the tawny Melincea-like group, including 

 H. ithaca (Feld.), H. aerotoma (Feld.), H. messene (Feld.),and 

 H. anderida (Hew). 



Mr. Newman exhibited a very fine bred series of numerous 

 species, including a yellow aberration of Callimorpha doniimda, 

 bred, from Kingsdown. Concerning the last, he mentioned 

 that whereas last year he bred 25 per cent, of the yellow 

 form, this year only I2i per cent, had been produced. 



Mr. West, of Ashtead, exhibited a bunch of filberts from 

 his garden, which had been attacked in a curious manner 

 and the kernels abstracted. It was suggested that possibly 

 the attack had been made by a crossbill, these birds having 

 been reported as already common in parts of Sussex, Surrey, 

 and Hants. The holes had rough torn edges, and were 

 certainly not the work of nuthatches or dormice. 



Mr. Barrett exhibited the imagines he had bred from a 

 species of processionary larva occurring commonl}' in Sicily, 

 and making its nest among the topmost branches of the pine 

 trees. It was afterwards ascertained to be Cnethocampa 

 pityocanipa. He also exhibited a number of species he had 

 bred and taken from his garden in Brockley. 



Mr. Prall exhibited dwarf specimens of Agriadcs thetis 

 (bellargus) and Polyouiuiatiis icarns, the former 26 mm., and 

 the latter 22 mm. in expanse. He also exhibited unusually 

 large specimens of Vanessa atalanta and Celastrina argiohis, 

 the former 46 mm. and the latter 32 mm. in expanse. 



Mr. Joy exhibited a short series of Cyclopides palcenwn, bred 

 from ova, originally from Lincolnshire. He also showed the 

 hibernaculum in which the larva passes the winter. 



Mr. Brown exhibited a curious form of Cymatophora 

 fliiduosa, in which the basal area was very dark, the apical 

 area white, and having a narrow white band. 



