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Protozoa. In the young stage they certainly had the amoeboid 

 character of creeping over surfaces and objects, but subsequently 

 became encysted, stationary, and plant-like. 



Mr. Buxton exhibited several specimens of Hadena pratea picked 

 from a series taken at sugar at Fairhill, Tonbridge, this year. 

 The females are generally of the blotched form, while many of the 

 greenest specimens are males. He remarked that he had never 

 found this species at rest on trunks of trees near Tonbridge. 



He further showed a series which he supposed to be of Antkmcera 

 Jiippocrepidis. They were taken far from any locality known, for 

 A. trifolii, and were obtained rather late for A. Jiippocrepidis, 

 and rather far north. The specimens were large for this species, 

 with spots large, and with the sixth spot not generally divided. 

 Also two teratological specimens of Anthrocera /ilipendiila, in one 

 of which the left hindwing was completely missing, Salisbury ; 

 and in the other the antennas were only half the normal length, 

 very thick and contorted, and with no definite club, Wrotham, 

 Kent. Both specimens were males. 



Mr. Step remarked upon the phenomenally dry season, and the 

 consequent absence of even the most common fungi, especially of 

 all ground species. The only species he had seen in any numbers 

 were the tree-frequenting Polyporiis sidphureus, and " beefsteak 

 fungus," Fintnlina hepatica, which were appearing much nearer 

 the ground than usual. 



OCTOBER 12th, 1911. 



Mr. H. R. Sweeting, M.A., of South Woodford, was elected a 

 member. 



Mr. W. J. Kaye exhibited a series of Lithosia deplana [helveola), 

 both bred and captured examples, of which the latter were in most 

 cases darker, but not one specimen was so dark as the specimen 

 belonging to Mr. Cockayne, referred to at the last meeting. 



Mr. Barrett exhibited three series of Lithosia deplana, one 

 obtained years ago, another in 1909, and the third specimens of 

 this year. All in the second series were considerably darker than 

 any in either of the other series, and several specimens were with- 

 out the yellow costa, which was so conspicuous a feature in the 

 darker examples in Mr. Kaye's series. 



Mr. Barrett also exhibited two specimens of Xylina fnrcifera 

 (conforniis), viz., the example taken in October, 1904, in the East of 

 England, and one of the examples bred by Evan John in South 



