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Mr. Alfred Sich exhibited the Gelechiid, Argyritis pietella, Zell, 

 This species used to occur on Barnes Common in Stainton's time, 

 a locality which must have been quite suitable for it in those days. 



On Dehalf of Mr. E. D. Green, Mr. Sich exhibited a series of 

 Depressaria pntridella recently captured in North Kent, in the 

 locality where Mr. Green first discovered it some lew years ago. 



Mr. K. G. Blair exhibited an example of Mimas tilicc, with dark 

 transverse markings across the left primarj^ wing reduced to a 

 single round spot : the markings on the right primary being 

 normal. A teratological specimen of Carabna catenulatnii, from 

 the New Forest, in which the reflexed margins of the thorax 

 were symmetrically excised in the posterior half on each side. 

 Piinelia fornicata, with the right antenna duplicated some dis- 

 tance from its base, and with one branch again divided at the tip. 



On behalf of Mr. W. N. Blair, Mr. Blair exhibited living speci- 

 mens of the Medicinal Leech, Himdo officinalis, from the New 

 Forest, where it is said not to have been met with since the year 

 18()9. Mr. Lucas observed that in one pond in the New Forest 

 this year the species had been exceptionally common ; a stick 

 dragged through the water would be followed by a number of these 

 leeches. 



Mr. A. E. Tonge exhibited 23 stereoscopic photographs of lepi- 

 dopterous ova in situ, wild laid, all magnified five diameters. 

 Specimens of each of the following Clearwings bred or caught by 

 him in 1911 : — TrochiHutii bevibecifonnis, T. apiforwis, .Eyeria 

 spltecifariiiis, JE. aniirenaifminis, .£. ciiliciforiiiis, yE. ct/nipiforinis 

 (asiliforiiiis), JE. tipulifuniiis, and ^E. cJiri/sidifonvis. He also showed 

 a series of Lubophora riretata bred from larvie obtained on ivy buds 

 at Goring and Midhurst, Sussex. 



Mr. W. B. Pratt exhibited a very beautiful form of Ephi/ra 

 pendidaria in which the marginal and submarginal areas were 

 extremely dark in coloration. 



Mr. A. E. Tonge made the following observation on a Kingfisher: 



" While crossing a canal bridge in Hampshire yesterday, I beard 

 the call note of a Kingfisher and looked round in time to see the bird 

 flying rapidly towards me, at a height of at least fifteen or twenty 

 feet above the water. When about twenty-five yards away it 

 suddenly checked its flight and dropped like a stone into the 

 water, with a very audible splash, and entirely disappeared under the 

 surface, the water momentarily closing over it. After an appreci- 

 able fraction of time it reappeared and took wing without eft'ort from 

 the water with a small fish wriggling vigorously in its beak. It 



