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July. The second was a larger and lighter-coloured form from low 

 marshy ground, clay soil. This race flies from the end of May to 

 the end of June. Mr. Buckstone also reported that at Horsley last 

 July he took a live toad with its head partly eaten away by 

 maggots. On cutting its abdomen open black fluid flowed there- 

 from. Its blood was also in a watery condition. Several members 

 remarked that they had found toads attacked by maggots while alive. 

 The eyes were particularly subject to these attacks. It was usually 

 due to the larvas of Lucilia bufonivora or of Calliphora silvatica, and 

 they are said to eat their way from the nostrils to the brain and 

 eyes, producing eflects similar to those of Cicnurns cerebraUs in 

 sheep. Death usually resulted from the destruction of the brain. 



Mr. Hugh Main exhibited the large grub of a Dynastea (sp. ?) 

 beetle sent him from Ceylon. It was feeding on cocoa-nut fibre. 



Mr. F. B. Carr exhibited Lepidoptera mostly captured by his son 

 the Rev. F. M. B. Carr, during June, 1910, in Shropshire, including 

 long series of Civnonympha tiphon var. philoxenus from Whixall 

 Moss, North Salop ; a good series of Nemeophila [Parasemia) plan- 

 tar/mis, mostly captured, with a few bred from ova laid in June, 

 producing imagines in September. The latter were mostly females 

 with only three males, one of which is a var. with dark hindwings. 

 Long series of Larentia [Kntephria) casiata found at rest on 

 rocks on the moors on June 22nd. Melanippe (A'atithcrhoe) tristata, 

 very abundant on the moors. Emmelesia {Perizoma) albulata, 

 very abundant in one field. Enpithecia pulchellata, very 

 abundant on the rocks. Gleocerh {Bonihycia) viiiiinalifi, larvas 

 abundant on Sallows, producing dark imagines. Light forms 

 shown for comparison, bred at the same time from Oxshott larvfe. 



Mr. Sich exhibited specimens of Lithocolletis Htettmendii, a species 

 attached to alder, from Oxshott. 



Mr. Stanley Edwards exhibited a specimen of the giant puff-ball, 

 Calvatia giyantea, from a garden at Blackheath. It was said to 

 reach a size of two feet in diameter at times. 



Mr. A. E. Tonge exhibited lantern slides of various species of the 

 genus JEyeria (Sesia) showing the living imagines shortly after 

 emergence, generally close to the exit larval burrow. He also 

 showed photographic slides of the ova of several species of the 

 same genus. 



Mr. Dennis exhibited a series of lantern slides illustrating the 

 various characteristic plants indigenous to a salt-marsh, showing 

 both their individual specific characters and their massed eflect 

 i7i sitii in the marsh. 



