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Mr. Step also exhibited a cluster of the galls of Cyiiips 

 kullari, and called attention to the manner in which some of 

 these had been explored by birds — probably woodpeckers — 

 in order to extract the larva or pupa. It was remarkable 

 that not one of the galls exhibiting the cleanly bored orifice 

 which marked the exit of the gall-wasp had been touched by 

 the birds, this apparently showing that they had power to 

 discriminate between tenanted and untenanted galls. All 

 the dwarf oaks that pretty continuously bordered a large 

 field between Fetcham and Sly field, Surrey, were thickly 

 covered with the galls, similarly investigated by birds, and 

 the specimens exhibited were a fair sample of the whole. 



Mr. Stanley Edwards exhibited a portion of the jaws with 

 teeth of a small species of IditJiyosaurus, from the chalk of 

 Lyme Regis, together with a fossil shell Aporrhais sp.? from 

 the Folkestone Gault. 



Dr. Hodgson exhibited a long series of M. auvinia from 

 various English localities to compare with those exhibited 

 by Mrs. Hemming and Mr. A. F. Hemming, showing that, 

 while most localities had their own general form, the Wilt- 

 shire specirriens were of very varied forms. 



Mr. West (Curator) exhibited a drawer of the Society's 

 collection of Coleoptera, which he was rearranging, and in 

 which he had just placed some sixty species from his own 

 cabinet. 



Mr, Priske exhibited a number of slides showing the life- 

 history of the glow-worm which Mr. Main and he were 

 observing, and read a short paper (p. 74). 



Mr. Lucas read a paper, " Notes on the Natural Order 

 Neuroptera,'" and exhibited a large number of lantern-slides 

 illustrative of his remarks (p. 66). 



Mr. Step communicated the following short reports of the 

 Field Meetings conducted by him during the season : 



Report on Certain Field Meetings conducted by 

 E. Step, igio. 



The Council, in its wisdom, allotted four of the Field 

 Meetings to me as conductor, and as very few lists of cap- 

 tures have reached me, I have thought it well to combine 

 reports of the four into one. The most striking feature of 

 these meetings was the consistent favour again extended to 

 me by the Clerk of the Weather, in a season that will not be 

 remarkable in meteorological annals for its fine days, nor 

 among entomologists for a profusion of insects. 



