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Swanage ; Limenitis sibylla, from New Forest ; Gonopteryx 

 rhamni, New Forest, July 15th; Zephyrus [Thccla] quercus, 

 from New Forest ; Melanavgia galatca, from Corfe and Lul- 

 worth ; Calligenia miniata, from oak in New Forest ; Lithosia 

 lurideola, from Boscombe ; Chora lichenaria, New Forest ; 

 Pseudoterpna pruinata, in Durley Chine ; series of female Lam- 

 pyris noctiluca, with one male, by assembling, from Boscombe; 

 Tabanus bovinus, New Forest ; a specimen of the rare homo- 

 pteron, Ledra aurita, from oak in New Forest ; and Mysia 

 oblongo- guttata, from pine, New Forest. 



AUGUST 24th, 1899. 



Mr. Robt. Adkin, F.E.S., in the Chair. 



Mr. Edwards exhibited a number of insects of various 

 orders from Borneo and India, including the large bee 

 Xylocopa latipes, the enormous digging wasp, Triscolia procera, 

 with two other species of digging wasps, Eumenes dimidiati- 

 pennis, and Eumenes latreillei ; a specimen of the giant ant 

 Camponotus gigas, the beautiful hymenopteron Ampulex coni- 

 pressa, several species of Rutelidse, together with two species 

 of the curious crab spiders (Gasteracantha), an immature 

 Tarantula, and specimens of the rare Thelyphonus, a genus 

 allied to the scorpions, and forming a connecting link between 

 the latter and the true spiders. 



Mr. West exhibited the following Hemiptera : — Oncotylus 

 viridiflavus, found on Centaur ea at Wisley ; Trichopsylla 

 ivalkeri, found on buckthorn at Box Hill; Serenthia lata, ob 

 tained by sweeping, at Reigate, in August of this year. 



Mr. Patteson, of Limpsneld, reported that Deilephil a livor- 

 nica was taken in that locality last week. This specimen 

 came to light. 



Mr. Robt. Adkin exhibited a series of Acidalia aversata, 

 bred from ova deposited by a moth taken in his garden at 

 Lewisham in the summer of 1898. The parent, he said, was 

 a somewhat undersized, dull, obscurely marked example of 

 the non-banded form, and the offspring followed it very 

 closely throughout the whole of the brood, they being all dull 

 in colour, and no banded forms were among them — a fact 

 which he thought interesting, as banded forms are of very 

 frequent occurrence in the garden where the parent was 

 taken. Examples of the usual plain forms from the same 

 locality were shown for comparison. 



