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seeds were produced and similarly aberrant flowering occurred 

 each year in his garden. 



Mr. West, of Greenwich, exhibited a series of the very 

 local species of Rhyncophora, Polydrusus chrysomcla, which he 

 had taken on Chcnopodmin, in its old locality at Milton, near 

 Gravesend, Kent. 



Mr. R. Adkin gave a short report of the Annual Congress 

 of the S. E. Union of Scientific Societies which had just 

 been concluded at Dover. 



JULY gtk, 1903. 



The President in the Chair. 



Mr. West, of Greenwich, exhibited several species of 

 Hemiptera, which were taken by Mr. Ashby at Deal and 

 Weymouth, and which he forwarded during the month of 

 June, 1903 — Podops inunda, Liocoris cu/sitans, PscnduphlcBiis 

 falleni, Rhyparoclironms prcetextatus, R. cliiragra, Trapczonotus 

 agrestis, and Aphamis lynceus, all from Deal ; Salda lateralis, 

 from Weymouth. He also Qxh.\h\ied Eusarcocoris iiielaiiocephalus 

 and Gnathoconus albuniarginatus from Horsley ; and from 

 Milton, near Gravesend, the Coleoptera, Apion malvce, 

 Hainoiiia curtisi, Cercyon littoralis, and C. depressus ; the last 

 two species were found under sea- weed just above high-water 

 mark. 



Mr. Sich exhibited a living example of Geometra vcvnaria, 

 which he had just captured at Chiswick. 



Mr. Goulton exhibited a specimen of the local plant, Ajuga 

 cJiaincBpitys, from Box Hill. 



Mr. Turner exhibited cases, with living larvai, of what he 

 supposed to be Coleophora cielibipennella, which Dr. Chapman 

 had just sent to him from Spain. He also showed living 

 examples of C hadiclla from Lewisham, and of C ccespititiella 

 from Loughton, both species bred from the larvae previously 

 exhibited. 



Mr. Lucas reported that Mr. Porritt had taken several 

 species of ^schna isosceles in the eastern counties. He also 

 remarked on the appearance of Mimnlus luteus in the ditches 

 near Kingston ; numerous localities were mentioned for the 

 plant by several other members. 



