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Mr. Turner exhibited larvae of Phibalapteryx tersata, from 

 ova laid by a female captured at Wendover, on the occasion 

 of the Society's field meeting on July nth, and also larvae 

 of Spilosoma fuliginosa, from ova, some of them feeding up 

 rapidly, while others apparently intended to hibernate. 



Mr. Step, on behalf of Mr. Turner, exhibited the so-called 

 "bone" of the cuttle {Sepia officinalis), from the mouth of 

 the River Exe, in Devonshire, and stated that such objects 

 were common on some parts of the S.W. coasts, the cuttles 

 having probably been killed and consumed by conger eels. 



AUGUST 2jth, 1903. 



The President in the Chair. 



Mr. Hare exhibited a variety oi Acidalia aversata in which 

 the outer half of both fore- and hind wings was suffused with 

 dark fuscous. 



Mr. Dodds exhibited several curious aberrations of the 

 male of Ocncria dispar, more or less extensively streaked with 

 the ground colour of the female. He had inbred the species 

 for the last three seasons, and this variation had not ap- 

 peared previously to the present year, except in one speci- 

 men in the second season, which he had thrown away, 

 presuming that it had been stained slightly in the cyanide 

 bottle. The larva; were sleeved on apple each year. 



Mr. Garrett exhibited a very small male specimen of 

 Porthesia similis {auriflua), taken on Wimbledon Common 

 on August i2th, 1903, and measuring only one inch in ex- 

 panse of wings ; also a female Polyouiinatus corydon, with 

 blue marks along the costa of the right fore-wing, forming a 

 broken streak from base to apex. The latter was taken at 

 Purley on August 13th, 1903. 



Mr. West and Mr. Ashby reported that they had been 

 warned out of the open sand pit in the centre of Oxshott 

 Heath while searching for Coleoptera, because " it interfered 

 with the birds getting their evening meal." 



Mr. F. M. B. Carr exhibited— 



I, A collection of Lepidoptera made in Salisbury district 

 during 1903, including Eugonia (Vanessa) pulychloros, Neiiie- 

 obius lucina, PolyoinmahLs (Lyccena) corydon, Lithosia mesomella 

 (Romsey), Lithosia {aureola) sororcula, Etdri^ha {Gastropacha) 

 quercifolia, Notodonta dictcea, A crony eta tridens (from larva), 

 one Leucania straniinca, one Xylophasia sublusiris, Triplicena 



