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castrensis from Essex larvae, showing considerable variation 

 in ground colour and width of band, and including the rare 

 yellow unicolorous female and the dark chocolate male ; a 

 series of Algeria andreniformis bred from Kent-collected larvae, 

 with their ichneumons, and stated that in the present year, 

 1908, over 80 per cent, of the larvae were stung ; a living 

 specimen of Abraxas grossidariata, bred on October 8th from 

 second brood larvae, of which five or six broods were sleeved 

 out of doors on growing trees, and of these over 100 had fed 

 up and pupated. The specimen shown was a very light 

 aberration, suffused with yellow, and with hardly any spots 

 on the hind-wings. It was bred from a pairing of picked 

 light forms from Selkirk, N.B. ; a living specimen of Thera 

 firmata, second brood, all the larvae of the brood having 

 pupated ; and a living example of Eumorpha elpenor, a very 

 unusual second brood specimen. 



Mr. T. W. Hall exhibited an immature specimen of the 

 stinkhorn fungus (Phallus impudicus) from his garden at 

 Croydon, showing the root-like mycelium or true fungus, 

 and the egg-like body from which the column or sporophore 

 emerges. 



Mr. J. P. Barrett made some remarks comparing the 

 lepidopterous fauna of North Kent some thirty years ago 

 with what it was to-day, and stated that, although the two 

 Brenthids, B. euphrosyne and B. selene had completely disap- 

 peared or were extremely rare in the district, two new 

 species had not only appeared, but were evidently becoming 

 permanently established. He referred to Aporia cratcegi 

 and to Nonagria sparganii. One of the Kentish localities 

 for the former species was well known to him ; it was in 

 private grounds, and so far as he knew the insect had come 

 there in a natural manner. It was well known that the 

 young larvae were gregarious, but on occasions the pupae 

 also were gregarious ; and he showed portions of the 

 branches of a plum tree with a number of pupae near 

 together. He snowed both caught and bred Kentish speci- 

 mens of the species, the size of the latter being quite equal 

 to that of the captured ones. He had not met with the 

 ova, nor did he find the larvae on hawthorn. 



Dr. Chapman said that on the continent the species 

 differed in its habits ; it was certainly not gregarious in its 

 later stages ; in fact, the imago could be met with almost 

 anywhere, and the larvae appeared to attack many trees. 

 Mr. Montgomery had found the ova of this species in N. 

 Kent on hawthorn. 



