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been numerous. A few Nemeohiiis Incina, Hemaris tityus 

 (bombylifuniiis), and H . fuciformis were noted. Reports had 

 come to him that in Delamere Forest larvae were also scarce. 



Mr. Carr had done a considerable amount of beating for 

 larvae, but found all things very scarce. 



Mr. Bishop reported that at Wovsley N emeobins lucina were 

 abundant, but that most species were late and scarce. Of 

 Polyommatus teams he had only seen three or four ; Gonep- 

 teryx rhamni had been unusually scarce, but Eiichloe car- 

 damines had been in fair numbers. In the New Forest he 

 too had found beating for larvae a decided failure. He had, 

 however, obtained the larvae of Tceniocampa populeti in con- 

 siderable abundance. 



Mr. Brown said that he had met with some species of 

 spring larvae in numbers — Triphcena fimbria and Boarmia 

 repandata for example. Imagines were, however, extremely 

 scarce everywhere. It seemed to him that low-feeding larvae 

 were as common as usual, but that larvae feeding on trees 

 and bushes were exceptionally scarce, as were the larvae of 

 all sun-loving species. 



Mr. Turner remarked that he had found but little evidence 

 of larvae on the various trees and shrubs which he had 

 examined for species of the genus Co/£'o/)Aora. In letters he 

 had received from correspondents in various parts of the 

 country were expressions of the great scarcity of larvae and 

 imagines during the present season. 



•JUNE 22rd, 1904. 



Mr. E. Step, F.L.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Carr exhibited a double-sized cocoon of Lasiocampa 

 quercih. It differed also in colour from the normal cocoon, 

 in being of a dirty cream-white. 



Mr. Moore exhibited a very small frog which he had found 

 among a number of insects in papers received from Peru. 



Mr. Ashby exhibited specimens of Callidiiim alni and 

 Orsodacna cerasi, two species of Coleoptera taken by him on 

 the occasion of the Field Meeting at Bookham on June 4th. 



Dr. Chapman exhibited larvae of Agdistis bennettii, sent to 

 him by Mr. Ovenden from Rochester, and also ova of the 

 same species laid on dock. 



Mr. South exhibited living larvae of Nyssia lapponaria 

 feeding on birch. He remarked that as a British insect 



