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Acronycta alniy Pterostoiiia palpina, and of a species of 

 Eiipithecia feeding on Campanula glomerata. 



Mr. R. Adkin exhibited a series of Zonosoma linearia, 

 reared from West Sussex ova. The individuals showed a 

 certain amount of variation in colour and the intensity of 

 the central line, and in one a small wedge-shaped mark ex- 

 tended inwards from the central at about one-third of its 

 length from the costa. 



Mr. Main exhibited examples of three species of New 

 Zealand butterflies, including Pyrameis gonerilla. 



Mr. Carr exhibited living larvae of Melanthia albicillata 

 and Cosmotriche (Odonestis) potatoria, and asked if any member 

 had known the larvae of the latter species to feed for two 

 winters. At the present time he had larvae not yet full 

 fed, which had lived through the last winter and were 

 apparently going to hibernate a second time. Mr. Carpenter 

 thought it a most unusual occurrence, and said that no 

 doubt the unprecedented bad summer was one of the causes. 

 He had found that the caterpillars of butterflies had this 

 year very considerably extended the length of their larval 

 life. Mr. Adkin doubted whether ordinary single brooded 

 insects had the power of going over a second winter in the 

 larval state, although they might produce two broods or 

 partial broods in one season. 



Mr. West, of Greenwich, exhibited a series of the Homo- 

 pteron, Gargara gcnistce, which he had taken on broom at 

 Oxshott in September. The species was a very local one, 

 and when he first met with it the males were in the proportion 

 of twenty to one of the females ; but when he looked for it 

 at a later date, the proportion was reversed. 



Mr. Step exhibited seeds of the Chili pine, Araucavia 

 imhricata, which he had just received from Woodstock, Co. 

 Kilkenny. They were produced on the large specimen tree, 

 of which he had exhibited the photograph at a previous 

 meeting. He also showed a photograph of the cluster of 

 four cones at the end of a branch, and stated that the weight 

 of the cluster exceeded i6i lbs. He described the cones 

 and their method of growth at some length, and stated that 

 it was rarely that any number of seeds were fully developed 

 on the trees in this country. 



Mr. Adkin exhibited a specimen of the flower-head of the 

 yarrow which was of a very deep pink. He had found it at 

 Eastbourne, where it was most conspicuous among a host 

 of the ordinary white heads. 



Mr. Clark exhibited photographs of the ova of Eutvicha 



