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species he had taken during his holiday last year, including 

 Neptis lucilla,X. accris, Limcnitis populi, L. sibylla, L. Camilla, 

 Erebia medusa, var. psodca, Pararge climenc, P. roxclana, 

 Chrysophanus thersamon, Heteropterus morpheus, Ccenonympha 

 cedippus, E. melas, C. dispar, v. rutilus, etc. (see p. n). 



MAY zBth, 1908. 



Mr. J. St. Aubyn, of Balham, and Mr. N. D. Riley, of 

 Upper Tooting, were elected members. 



Mr. Main exhibited living larvae of a species of " Stick " 

 insect, bred from the ova he had previously exhibited. 



Mr. West, of i\shtead, exhibited a series of Anticlea 

 badiata, bred from larvae obtained on his rose trees. 



Mr. Tonge exhibited stereographs of the ova of Saturnia 

 carpini and M acrothylacia rubi for comparison ; of the ova of 

 Malacosoma castrensis and M. franconica for comparison ; of 

 the ova of Pauolis pinipcrda both fertile and infertile; and of 

 the imago of Notodonta trepida at rest. 



Mr. Step exhibited for Mr. Tonge, flowers of Geum rivale, 

 from Whitchurch in Hampshire, stating that it was a local 

 plant, not occurring anywhere in the London district. He 

 also showed some photographs, including one of a tine 

 group of the fertile fronds of Equisetutn arvense. 



Mr. Rayward exhibited a pupa in situ of Trochilium 

 crabroniformis, and pointed out the pad of gnawed wood, 

 with which the lower end of the burrow was stopped, and 

 the silken cap over the hole, which was ruptured at emer- 

 gence. He stated from his experience that the burrows 

 were generally in the main stems, and that the insect 

 emerged downward, while in /Egcria culiciformis, of which 

 he also showed a pupa case in situ, the emergence took 

 place upwards. 



Mr. Turner exhibited a long series of the local moth 

 Pancalia Icuwenlwekclla, which he had met with in consider- 

 able abundance at Box Hill ; a short series of Swammer- 

 dainmia gvisco-capitclla, bred from larvae obtained at Oxshott 

 during the Society's Field Meeting in 1907 ; two specimens 

 of the uncommon Coleopteron, Cassida murrcea, taken on 

 May 16th at Box Hill on the leaves of Inula coniza ; and 

 specimens of the extremely beautiful Hydrocampid, Ambia 

 instrinncntalis, from the Khasia Hills, North India. 



Mr. Gilbert Arrow gave an address on the " Origin and 

 Use of Horns in Coleoptera," and illustrated his remarks by 



