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species of Hemiptera, taken from broom at Oxshott in 

 September — (i) Livilla ulicis, (2) Dictyonota striclinuccra, and 

 (3) the rare D. fiUiginosa. 



Mr. Adkin sent for exhibition from Eastbourne a spray of 

 the tamarisk {Taniarix gallica, L.), and one of the sages, 

 and communicated the following note : 



" I do not remember to have often seen tamarisk blooming, 

 and as some few bushes about here are in full blossom, I 

 thought a sample might interest some of our members, and I 

 am therefore sending a couple of sprigs of it under separate 

 cover by same post. With them I have put a bit of a Salvia 

 that is used here very effectively as a garden border plant ; 

 you will notice that the flowers are insignificant and among 

 the green leaves some distance down the stem, its effective- 

 ness being due to the colour of what appear to be the 

 terminal leaves of the shoot. I dare say you may be familiar 

 with it, but it was new to me, and so I am sending it on 

 the off-chance of its being interesting to others who may 

 not have come across it before. 



" Lepidoptera are scarce here ; of course one finds a fair 

 number of " blues " in their special haunts, chiefly Polyom- 

 niatus curydon, with just an occasional P. icariis, but so far 

 not one P. bellargus has shown up. A few Aglais urticce 

 and an occasional Pyrameis cardui may be seen. The only 

 really common species is Plusia gamma, which since Monday 

 has been quite abundant, although up to that time it had 

 been seen only very sparingly. Even the drizzling rain of 

 yesterday and the sea-fog with which we are favoured to-day 

 do not appear to have affected its liveliness, but I have so 

 far been able to detect no movement in any particular 

 direction ; it appears to simply hover about from flower to 

 flower, whether on the downs, or in the gardens, or even at 

 the window flower-boxes." 



Mr. Lucas read the Report of the Horsley Field Meeting 

 held on June 6th, and illustrated his remarks with lantern- 

 slides (see page g). 



OCTOBER 8th, 1903. 



The President in the Chair. 



Mr. F. A. Oldaker exhibited series or examples of the 

 following species of Lepidoptera : 



