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had not been identified, found at Ashtead, on elm. He also 

 showed a nearly full-grown larva of Phorudcsiiia smaragdaria 

 from Benfleet, where the species would probably soon be 

 exterminated by the destruction of its food-plant in the 

 repairing of the sea-walls. 



Mr. Kirkaldy exhibited a very curiously shaped egg of the 

 common fowl, small, elongated, and similarly shaped at both 

 ends. 



Mr. Goulton exhibited a specimen of the Coleopteron 

 Phytodcda viminalis from Ranmore. Mr. Ashby said that 

 the species had been somewhat common recently at Oxshott, 

 on willow. 



Mr. West exhibited photographs taken during the Society's 

 meeting at Box Hill. 



Mr. Step exhibited photographs oi Enpiihccia cxiguata and 

 Melcinippe fluctnata in their resting positions on palings. 

 These were taken during the Society's meeting at Ashtead. 

 Dr. Chapman remarked that he had usually observed the 

 latter species with its head close to the next pale and the 

 body nearly horizontal. 



Mr. Lucas exhibited a number of specimens of the shell of 

 LiinncBa auvicnlaria from the Thames at Kingston. 



Mr. Step read the Report of the Field Meeting held at 

 Mickleham on May i6th, 1903 (see page 7). 



JUNE nth, 1903. 



The President in the Chair. 



Mr. Hy. J. Turner exhibited (i) two specimens of Ani- 

 soptcryx cescularia, one from Dorking and the other from 

 Lewisham in the London suburbs, and called attention to 

 the decidedly duller and darker colour of the latter example 

 contrasted with the brighter country specimen ; (2) a very 

 dark suffused Hyhernia marginaria (progcuimaria) from Dork- 

 ing, in which only the outer margin of the transverse band 

 and the submarginal row of dots were lighter ; and (3) a 

 series of Dasycera stdphurella, bred from decaying wooden 

 posts near Golding's Pond, Loughton, and called attention 

 to the sexual dimorphism, the males being much less bright, 

 while the females have in addition a bright yellow longi- 

 tudinal streak from the base, a yellow wedge-shaped costal 

 blotch directly above the inner marginal blotch which occurs 

 in both sexes, sometimes an additional short streak from the 



