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ment out of the few days we have been here, and are at present 

 regretting that our visit will not extend to a month or so. 

 The camera is making some pictorial records of our surround- 

 ings, and I hope at some future meeting to exhibit lantern 

 slides of these whilst Turner tells racy anecdotes of our 

 experiences. 



"A salmon river flows through our demesne, and I need 

 not say that, having sampled the salmon and trout taken from 

 it, we find both species admirable." 



Mr. Turner exhibited a short series oi A gratis vipce bred at 

 the end of June, igo2, from larvae taken at Dawlish in 

 August, igoi. They showed very considerable variation, 

 from a specimen having an extensive area of mealiness to an 

 exceptionally dark form with scarcely a trace of white 

 markings. He stated that the larvae were very common 

 again this year, feeding especially upon a Crucifer, Cakilc 

 uiaritiina. Other years they were feeding upon a Chenopod, 

 Salsola kali. The books, authors of which copy each other 

 so admirably, give only hound's-tongue, Cynoglossum officinale, 

 a plant he had not noticed upon the Dawlish sand-hills. 



Mr. Kemp exhibited an example of the Colorado beetle, 

 which had been taken at Tilbury in igoi. 



Mr. Bowman exhibited a large number of species of the 

 genus Erehia, chiefly from Spain and Switzerland. Among 

 them was a series of the very local E. christi, a species not 

 recorded until very recent years, together with several speci- 

 mens of £■. zapateri. He also showed a series oi Melanargia 

 lachcsis. 



Mr. South exhibited ova of Tortrix piceana, Retinia 

 pinicolana, and a Queensland butterfly, Liphyra brassolis. 



Mr. McArthur sent for exhibition a curious fasciated flower 

 cluster of ragwort, Scnecio jacobcea, from the Shetland Isles. 



Mr. x\dkin exhibited several masses of cocoons of a species 

 of ichneumon, which had emerged from the larvae oi Boarmia 

 gemmaria. In each case the larva or larval remains was 

 arched over the mass, where he had noticed it to remain 

 for some while before dropping away. Dr. Chapman said 

 that the larva no doubt placed itself upon a twig prepara- 

 tory to change, when the Apanteles (grubs) emerged and 

 placed themselves underneath ; the successive emergences 

 and consequent additions to the mass caused the larva to 

 take up the remarkable arched position. 



Dr. Chapman exhibited a specimen oiGovytes bicinctus and 

 one of Scoliaula {Bohcmannia) quadriniaculclla, taken the pre- 

 ceding week at Reigate. 



