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white, and upon getting damp subsequently became dark brown. 



Mr. Step said that most of his cocoons spun by larvje from the 

 same source were white, but light and dark examples adjoined, 

 though all had been kept dry. 



Mr. Main referring to the Coquilla Nut and its larval inhabitant 

 exhibited at the last meeting, said that Mr. Gilbert Arrow of the 

 British Museum had furnished him with the following note on the 

 exhibit : — 



" The larva was that of the Coleopteron Caryoborus nuctuoruin. 

 The Coquilla Nut (Attalea pinifera) is a native of Brazil, and the 

 fibre of the tree is used for making ropes, brooms, etc. The beetle 

 is one of the so called " pea-weevils," the grubs of which feed in 

 seeds, especially peas and beans, which they enter in the unripe 

 state." 



Mr. K. G. Blair exhibited specimens of the Neuropteron, Borens 

 hienialis, which he had met with on Stanmore Common, in Essex. 



Mr. Blenkarn exhibited numerous species of Coleoptera taken by 

 him during the season including Clytus arietis, Cicindela sylvatica,. 

 Dytiscits marginalis, Aromia vioscJiata, etc. 



Mr. Adkin made remarks on the season and numerous members 

 joined in the discussion. Subsequently Mr. Adkin communicated 

 the substance of what was said in the following notes : — 



Notes on the Season. 



Introduced by R. Adkin, F.E.S. 



Mr. Robert Adkin said that the season of 1911 had been such an 

 exceptional one that the experiences of members in regard to their 

 field observations could not fail to be interesting. Probably most 

 of them had had a summer holiday, and if they could do no more 

 than give some account of their doings at that time he thought 

 even that would be of much interest. The season, he said, had 

 been one of the finest within the memory of the present generation, 

 as was shown by the meteorological office reports. In the south- 

 east of England, the district with which they were most closely 

 connected, in the three summer months, June to August, the mean 

 temperature had exceeded the average by no less than four degrees, 

 the rainfall had been 3-16 inches below the normal, and we had 

 enjoyed 225 hours more sunshine than we were supposed to be 

 entitled to, while September, the first of the autumn months, had 

 been hardly less fine, and it would be interesting to find whether 

 this unusually warm, dry weather had had any marked effect. 



