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able to verify this opinion. An hour's search of the beech 

 trunks in the wood produced better results, the following 

 species being taken, viz. Clausilia laminata, Bulimus obscura, 

 Helix lapicida, and a dead shell of H. rotundata. 



Among the plants that came under notice may be men- 

 tioned some eight species of Orchideae, viz. Aceras anthropo- 

 phora, Orchis purpurea, many very fine examples ; 0. mascula, 

 Neottia nidus-avis, Ccphalanthcra pollens, Ophrys niuscifera, 

 Listera ovata, and Habenaria viridis ; also Daphne laureola, 

 Chelidonium majus, Hippocrcpis comosa, Galeobdolon luteum, 

 Lepidium draba, Ajuga reptans, Aquilegia vulgaris, and many 

 other species. 



Mr. Adkin also reported on the Congress of the S. E. 

 Union of Scientific Societies, which had been held this year 

 at Chatham, and which he had attended as the Society's 

 delegate. 



Mr. Hall proposed, and Mr. Clark seconded, a hearty vote 

 of thanks to Mr. Adkin, both for his report of the field 

 meeting and his attendance at the Congress. Mr. Tutt in 

 putting the motion to the meeting remarked upon the great 

 assistance rendered by the Rochester N. H. Society to those 

 attending the Congress, and to the magnificent collections 

 exhibited by Dr. Clements during the week. 



JUNE 22nd, 1899. 



Mr. J. W. Tutt, F.E.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Montgomery exhibited the following larvae : — 1. Parargc 

 megcera ; 2. Epinephele tithonus from ova, showing both green 

 and brown forms ; 3. Enodia {Epinephele) hyperanthus from 

 ova. He stated that they were all easy to get through the 

 winter, feeding on any ordinary grass, and continued feeding 

 more or less the whole time. He also exhibited a new 

 arrangement of postal box he had had made especially for 

 sending larvae. 



Mr. Turner exhibited a cluster of large ova deposited on 

 a spray of heather, which had been found by Mr. Lucas in 

 Woolmer Forest, and which closely resembled a head of the 

 dead flowers of the heath. They were not recognised at the 

 meeting, but were afterwards ascertained to be those of 

 Bombyx qucrcus. 



Mr. West exhibited a specimen of Stauropus fagi, bred 

 from a larva found at West Wickham in 1898. 



Mr. R. Adkin exhibited a very fresh specimen of Syrichthus 



