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those globular, fine-wire traps, which are commonly sold as 

 fly-catchers. 



Mr. Barnett exhibited a variety of Epinephele tithomis 

 having pale xanthic patches, taken at Oxshott, and an 

 unusually large and pale male specimen of Fidonia atomaria 

 from the same place. 



Mr. Garrett exhibited a very long series of Vanessa io, 

 bred from larvae obtained near Arundel. 



Mr. Kirkaldy exhibited his collection of Nabinse (one of 

 the sub-families of Reduviidaj), comprising ten genera and 

 about fifty-four or fifty-five species. The collection was rich 

 in the rare winged forms of several species of Nabis {Pro- 

 stemnia) and Reduviohis (Nabis), while attention was called to 

 brachypterous specimens of R. ferns (Linn.). Exam.ples of 

 the Kongolan Platynieris horrida, Stal, and other Reduviida^ 

 were also shown. 



Mr. Kemp exhibited a portion of a stem of broom bored 

 by a beetle, Hylastinus obscurus, together with specimens of 

 Hylastinus obscurus, Lcsmophlceus ater, Phlceophthorus rhodo- 

 dactylus found in the same stem. All were from Oxshott, 

 and were taken on October 5th, igoi. 



Mr. Robert Adkin exhibited a series oi Lvphopteryx cucidla 

 {cucullina, Hb.) reared from Sussex parents. The original 

 moth was taken in the spring of igoo, and from ova obtained 

 moths resulted in May, igoi. Ova obtained from a pairing of 

 these moths hatched at the end of that month, and the 

 larvae, some thirty in number, commenced to pupate on 

 July 5th, the whole of them completing that operation 

 within the following week. Nine moths emerged between 

 July 24th and 31st ; the remainder of the pupse are still 

 lying over. 



Mr. Manger exhibited several shells which had been 

 obtained in the island of Lewis this year by Mr. McArthur. 

 They consisted oi Helix ericetorum, var. itala, and Helix acidns. 

 The former were somewhat darker and with a slightly 

 higher spire than the form which is found in county Galway. 



Mr. South exhibited Thyatira batis (Linn.), T. cognaia 

 (Moore), and T. aurorina (Butl), belonging to the Cymato- 

 phoridae ; also Risoba tinrnaculata (Brem.), and Cymato- 

 plioropsis sinuata (Moore), both members of the Noctuid sub- 

 family Stictopterinae, and contributed the following notes : — 

 " Cymatophoropsis and Risoba belong to the Noctuid sub-family 

 Stictopterinae, which, in Hampson's ' Moths of India,' is 

 placed sixth of the ten sub-families into which he divides the 

 Noctuidae. It follows next but one to the Sarrothripinae, which 



