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were typical males, 23 were typical females, and 13 were 

 var. valezina. He did not succeed in obtaining a pairing 

 among the specimens which were produced. 



Mr. Step exhibited a specimen of the fungus, Russiila adusta, 

 on the pileus of which was growing a cluster of the rare 

 Nydalis parasitica. This was the specimen found by Dr. 

 Hastings at the Cryptogamic meeting. 



Mr. H. Moore exhibited a specimen of Spilosoma hihricipeda 

 taken by him in Deptford on September i8th, possibly an 

 example of a second brood. He also exhibited HcUconiiis 

 telesiphe and Colcenis tclcsiphe, also Victorina stcneles and 

 Colanis dido, all from S. America, as examples of convergent 

 or Miillerian mimicry. 



Mr. F. Noad-Clark read a paper entitled " A Few Stray 

 Notes on Ticks," illustrating his remarks with a large 

 number of lantern-slides (see p. 29). 



OCTOBER 28th, 1909. 



Mr. Percy Bright, of Bournemouth, and Mr. G. Bowen, 

 B.A., of Kingston-on-Thames, were elected members. 



Mr. South exhibited a series of Hylophila prasinana, bred, 

 from Scarborough, and remarked on the unusual amount of 

 brilliant red colour developed in some of the specimens. 



Mr. West, of Greenwich, exhibited specimens of the 

 Homopteron, Idiocerns aurcntidus, from Blackheath, and 

 stated that it had only once previously been taken in this 

 country, and that was in Norfolk some twenty years ago, by 

 Mr. J. Edwards, of Colesbourne. 



Mr. Newman exhibited a series of Ai^votis cincrca from 

 Kent, Lewes, and Brighton, and pointed out the considerable 

 difference in size between the Kentish race and the races 

 taken in Sussex, the latter being much the smaller. 



Mr. Step exhibited living examples of the freshwater mol- 

 lusc, Aplecta hypnormn, from Ockham, Surrey, and remarked 

 that he had exhibited specimens from the same pond sixteen 

 or seventeen years previously, but the species was still indi- 

 cated in the " Conchological Society's Census" as absent 

 from the county. On several occasions in the interval he 

 had sought for it in the same pond without success, but on 

 the 23rd of the present month he dipped in his hand out of 

 curiosity in passing and found the species so abundant that 

 three or four dips yielded more than thirty examples of the 

 snail. During the present summer it had been recorded by 

 Mr. A. W. Stelfox near Tooting. 



