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Rnnuiorc Couniion, June iSth. — Several members spent 

 the morning on the slopes of Box Hill, and joined the after- 

 noon party at the railway station. The route followed was 

 by Westhumble and Bagden farm, thence through the woods 

 to the Post Office, a short time being spent on the slopes of 

 the escarpment prior to tea, to which twenty-one members 

 and friends sat down. Lepidoptera were scarce, but the 

 coleopterists had better sport, and the usual chalk-formation 

 flowers were fairly abundant. Mr. Turner succeeded in 

 finding a number of flower-spikes of the musk orchis 

 {Herjuiniuiji inonorchis). Messrs. Edwards and x\shdown 

 report the following Lepidoptera : Polycvniiiatiis icanis, Cupido 

 miniinus, Tliccla vnbi, CccnouyiiipJia paiiiphilus, Nisoniades tagcs, 

 Epincphclc ianira, Encliclia jacobaa, Xylophasia snblustris, 

 Dianthcecia carpophaga, Phytonietra cenca, Boarinia rcpandata, 

 Vcnilia macidata, Cucullia verbasci (larx-de), A cidalia incanaria, 

 Melanippe sociata, M . jnontaimta , E uiaturga atomaria, Eupithecia 

 lariciata, Cauiptogrmmna bilincatn, Pyranda punicealis, P. 

 cespitalis, Botys liyalinalis, Acidalia ornata, A. snbsericeata, 

 Ebnlea verbascalis. Lithosia rubvicollis was also reported. 

 Mr. Sich adds Coleophova apicdla, C. iintantclla, and C 

 discordella, of which he says, " though not new to my col- 

 lection, I have never seen them alive before."' Also larvas 

 of Dcpressaria cardiiella on thistle. Mr. West obtained the 

 Coleoptera and Hemiptera exhibited on June 23rd (see p. 109). 



Mr. Ashdown took the following Coleoptera : Cryptoce- 

 phalushypochccridis, C. lcibiatus,Lucanus ccrvns, Rliagonycliafusci- 

 cornh, Splicevodcruia tcstacemn, Cistela miivina, Cionus tliapsus, 

 Dascilliis cervinus, and the hemipteron, Sciocoris ctinitans. 



Ockliain and Wisley, July 2^vd. — This, I think, was the 

 most successful of our field-days in 1910, for every member 

 appeared to get interesting specmiens, whilst the weather 

 was again exceptional. It was remarkable how general was 

 the interest taken in the Mollusca, as evidenced by the zeal 

 with which every member secured specimens of Aplecta 

 hypnoruui from the roadside pond whence I first recorded 

 the species in Surrey in 1894. ^^ little further, the wall-rue 

 fern {Asplenium ruta-inuraria)\va.s pointed out on a farmyard 

 wall. Arrived at the pine woods on Ockham Common, 

 interest was displayed in the marsh-plants growing in the 

 swamp leading to the smaller pond. Of these we noted 

 in flower Lychnis floscuculi, Ranunculus flammula, Hypericum 

 elodes, (Enanthe pimpinelloides, Dvosera intermedia, D. rotundi- 

 folia, and Mentha aquatica. On the last-named species were 

 found larvae of the tortoise-beetle (Cnssida equestris). Mr. 



