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making a total of 58 moths — 27 males, and 31 females." 



AUGUST -3rd, 1900. 

 Mr. A. Harrison, F.L.S., Vice-Pvesident, in the Chair. 



Mr. R. Ad kin sent for exhibition a box containing some 

 flower-heads of ivy, and contributed the following note : 



" I am sending in the enclosed box for exhibition some 

 flower-heads of ivy having eggshells of Cyaniris argiolus on 

 them, showing the positions in which they are deposited. 

 There are some very small larvae on the heads, but I fear 

 these will get shaken off and lost on the way, but yet the 

 traces of their first meals will be evident. The imagines have 

 been very common here, flitting over the ivy patches both on 

 the sea-front and about the town, and the great ivy-covered 

 walls of the old castles at Pevensey and Hurstmonceux were 

 quite alive with them a few days ago. The species is, however, 

 not without its enemies. One small larva that I found this 

 morning, sunning itself on a head of flower-buds, carried the 

 egg of a parasite on its shoulders. The larva I should judge 

 from its size was less than a week old, yet it had been 

 attacked ; the egg which it carried looked curiously out of 

 proportion on so small a creature, and one wondered how 

 the resulting larva would find room to secrete itself in its 

 miniature host." 



He also exhibited the flowers of the common Euonyiiius, 

 and sent the following note : 



*' The common Euoiiymiis of our gardens is, I believe, 

 not often seen in blossom, I therefore enclose a small head 

 of bloom just gathered from a bush that is blossoming 

 freely in a garden at South Cliff, Eastbourne." 



