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Mr. Manger exhibited a very beautiful and unusually 

 marked specimen of the shell of Cypria tigris from the 

 Pacific Islands. The darker markings were all much in- 

 tensified, with numerous rings and spots of varied colour, as 

 well as many very evident depressions over the surface. 

 There was no form like it in the British Museum. 



SEPTEMBER 2.6th, 1901. 



Mr. VV. J. Lucas, B.A., F.E.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. F. M. B. Carr exhibited a varied series of Cidaria 

 trnncata which he had observed to be fairly common at 

 Porlock, North Somerset, in August, in a long patch of 

 bilberry. Specimens of the ncssata form were not found. 



Mr. Lucas exhibited two specimens of the rare dragon-fly 

 Libellnla fulva. 1. ^ without blue colour to abdomen. 

 2. ? with dark tip to wings. They were taken near Christ- 

 church by Major Robertson, of Pokesdown. He remarked 

 that very few British specimens have been recorded. 



Mr. Bishop exhibited a bred series of Eugonia {Vanessa) 

 polychloros from eggs seen laid in the open by a 5" in the 

 New Forest. Two specimens had faint blue markings on 

 the hind margins of the fore-wings. 



Mr. Robert Adkin exhibited a specimen of Cossus ligni- 

 perda reared from the larva referred to in his notes on the 

 species (" Proc," 1900, p. 4, foot-note) . The larva was found 

 crawling on a gravel road on September 15th, 1900, and on 

 being placed on a semi-rotten stump of a poplar tree in his 

 garden it at once found and squeezed itself into a hole in 

 the stump that had been tenanted by a larva of the same 

 species some two or three years previously, and the moth 

 exhibited was detected in the act of emerging from the same 

 hole on July i8th following. This tends to show that the 

 wandering full-fed larva readily accepts the first suitable 

 place for hybernation that it meets with, and does not leave 

 it before pupation. Mr. Adkin also exhibited a series of 

 Boavmia consortaria reared from pupae received from Abbott's 

 Wood, Sussex, and said that, in his experience, the species 

 had been quite common during the past two years, after a 

 time of comparative scarcity extending over several years 

 previously. 



Mr. Kemp exhibited two specimens of Sphinx convolvidi, 



