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until recently a regular attendant at both the ordinary and 

 field meetings. He stated that the Council had unanimously 

 passed a resolution that a letter of condolence be sent to 

 Mrs. Winkle}', and suggested that the meeting should 

 endorse the action of the Council. This was unanimously 

 passed. 



■Mr. South exhibited a short series of Mclitcea anrinia 

 from Carlisle and Central Ireland. They represented an 

 unaccountable failure in rearing from a large number of 

 larvae. Mr. Carpenter had bred a considerable number on 

 several occasions, and had never lost many at any time. 



Mr. West (Greenwich) exhibited short series of the 

 following species of Hemiptera: — Podops inuucta, Sctocoris 

 cursitans, Khyparochroinus chiragra, R. prcetextntns, Trape- 

 zonoUis agrestis, Macrodcuia viicropteruni, Plinthisus brevipennis. 

 Taken b}^ Mr. Ashby at Deal during the last week in May 

 and first in June. 



Mr. Turner exhibited a flower of Phyllocactus pcncockii 

 measuring five and a half inches across. It was remarkable 

 for the unusual brilliancy of the " shot "' colour on the 

 interior segments of the perianth. It was grown by Mr. 

 Head in his greenhouse in Camberwell. Mr. Turner 

 mentioned that a few days before he had a flower of 

 P. Iiaagei, which was of a delicate pale rose and measured 

 seven inches across. 



Mr. Ashby exhibited several species of Coleoptera he had 

 taken on the Deal sand-hills in June, including Zabnis gibbus, 

 Saprinus vircsccns, Mclaiiotus pniictolincatiis, CJirysontcla dis- 

 tingttenda, and Apion sedi. 



Mr. West, of Streatham, exhibited a piece of amber found 

 by some boys at Maldon, some forty feet below the surface. 

 It was not the true amber, which was the produce of species 

 of pine trees, but gum animi, the fossil gum of the locust tree. 

 There were numerous insects embedded in it, including one 

 lepidopteron. He stated that when true amber was rubbed 

 hard the smell of the pine was noticed. 



Mr. M'Lachlan communicated the following : — On look- 

 ing over the new part of " The Proceedings of the South 

 London Entom. and Nat. Hist. Societ}- " I see (1901, p. 35) 

 that Cotyledon lunbilicus is said not to occur further east 

 than Hampshire. A year or two ago I saw it commonly on 

 the wall of Winchelsea churchyard, and with every appear- 

 ance of not having been introduced. Several old localities 

 in Kent are given in Hanbur3-'s " Flora of Kent." 



Mr. F. Noad Clark exhibited some Jequirity seeds, and 



