61 



British examples powdered with brown scales, but not so 

 abundantly. 



Mr. Rayward had seen plenty of Pieris rapce and P. napi 

 in S. Wales a week ago, but no Euchloe cavdamines. 



JUNE 20th, 1908. 



Field Meeting at Box Hill. 



Conductor : Mr. Henry J. Turner, F.E.S. 



About twenty members and friends attended this meeting, 

 and a very pleasant afternoon was spent in the woods and 

 valleys about Juniper Bottom. No captures of any note 

 have been reported, and, on the whole, insects seemed very 

 scarce, in all stages. There was a profusion of the character- 

 istic chalk plants in flower. Tea was obtained on the 

 terrace of the hunting lodge on the crest of the hill. 



JUNE 2Sth, 1908. 



Mr. Newman exhibited a variety of Abraxas grossulariata, 

 whose fore-wings had the marginal blotches rayed inwards 

 somewhat, and the hind-wings had only the discoidal spot 

 and rayed-out marginal spots. 



Mr. West (Greenwich) exhibited a short series of the 

 local species of Coleoptera, Dytiscus circumcinctus, male and 

 female, from Great Yarmouth, and called attention to the 

 points of difference from D. marginalis, which was also 

 exhibited. He also showed specimens of the rare Bidessus 

 unistriatus from the same locality. 



Mr. R. Adkin read the following Report of the Delegates 

 (the President and Mr. R. Adkin) appointed to represent 

 the Society at the Congress of the South-Eastern Union of 

 Scientific Societies : 



" The Thirteenth Annual Congress of the South-Eastern 

 Union of Scientific Societies was held at Hastings from 

 June 10th to 13th, and was duly attended by your delegates. 



" The proceedings were opened by the retiring President, 

 Prof. Silvanus P. Thompson, D.Sc, F.R.S., F.R.A.S., who, 

 in a few well-chosen words, introduced his successor, Sir 

 Archibald Geikie, D.Sc, F.R.S. (Secretary to the Royal 

 Society), who read his inaugural address, taking for his sub- 

 ject ' The Weald.' ' He chose the subject because research 



