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SEPTEMBER nth, 1902. 



Mr. F. NoAD Clark, President, in the Chair. 



Mr. South exhibited a few specimens of Pigcsra curUila, 

 representative of sixty-four imagines bred from ova laid by a 

 female captured on May 31st at Blatchworth Heath, Hert- 

 fordshire. The larvse were fed on sallow instead of poplar, 

 upon which they feed naturally. The whole of those bred 

 were smaller and darker than the female parent ; whether as 

 a result of feeding the larvae upon sallow or whether due to 

 seasonal dimorphism, he could not say. At present he had 

 a succeeding brood of larvse feeding upon sallow, and he was 

 anxious to see the form of the resultant imagines. 



Mr. Turner exhibited two species of Longicorn Coleoptera 

 taken by Mr. J. W. Tutt at Torre Pellice, in the Basse Alps, 

 \\z. Ccrambyx heros {cerdo) and Purpuricenus koehleri. 



Mr. Kemp exhibited several species of Coleoptera taken 

 in the New Forest during August, including Prionns coriaruis, 

 Halyzia 16-gnttata, Toinoxia biguttata, Abdcra bifasciata, 

 De/onectcs latus, Cceliodcs erythroleiicus, Thymalus limbatus, 

 Bembidiinn decorum, Orchcstes iota (on sweet gale), O. ilicis, 

 0. avcllancE, and 0. rusci. 



Dr. Chapman exhibited male and female specimens of the 

 beautiful and rare Hesperid butterfly, Hcteropterus morphens, 

 from St. Jean de Luz, stating that it was the first time he 

 had met with the species. He also showed cases and two 

 male specimens of the very distinct Psychid moth, Oreopsyche 

 lescheiiaulti, from San Sebastian, in Spain. The cases were 

 covered with fine grains of sand very closely and evenly laid 

 on, and the imagines were remarkable for their scaleless 

 wings and long-tufted white hairs on the body. He stated 

 that at emergence scales were present on the wings, but were 

 so loosely attached that they almost immediatel}- fell off. 



Mr. Hy. J. Turner exhibited series of the Clavicorn beetles 

 Soronia pimctatissima and S. grisca, taken by him at Wood- 

 stock, CO. Kilkenny, Ireland, in the burrows of Cosstis ligni- 

 perda, which abounded in an old poplar tree on the banks of 

 the river Nore. 



Mr. Adkin exhibited specimens of a plant from the Shet- 

 land Islands, sent by Mr. McArthur, and which Mr. Step 

 afterwards identified as the Highland cudweed {Gnaphaliuni 

 snpinuni), a plant confined exclusively to the extreme north 

 of Great Britain. 



