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with a specimen of the rare Elater elongatulits, OL, all taken 

 in Headley Lane on June 3rd. 



/[/LY lU/i, 1895. 



T. W. Hall, Esq., F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Kremlin exhibited a long, fine, and variable series of 

 bred Phorodesma smaragdaria, Fb., all of which had been set 

 with the use of the blowpipe ; also a bred series of Geometra 

 papilionaria, L. 



Mr. Oldham exhibited a specimen of Sirex gigcis, L., taken 

 at Wisbeach, and several species of Lepidoptera, which he 

 had captured during the Society's visit to Oxshott on June 

 2gth. Among these were Eurymene dolabraria, L,, and 

 Macaria litnrata, Clerck. 



Mr. R. Adkin exhibited a yellow var. of Ematurga 

 atomaria, L. 



Mr. Hall exhibited pupai of Sesia sphegiforinis, Fb., and 

 Eupithecia valerianata, Hb., the latter from the Croydon 

 district. 



Mr. Edwards exhibited Papilio sesostris, var. xestos, from 

 South America. 



Mr. Mansbridge, referring to his exhibit on October 25th, 

 1894 (Proc, p. 72), of a mole's skin covered with cocoons, said 

 that he had bred therefrom a series of Tinea tapetzella, L. 



/[/LV 251/1, 1S95. 

 T. W. Hall, Esq., F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Hall exhibited a long, variable, bred series of Dian- 

 thcecia carpophaga, Bork, from Croydon. The larvae were 

 found feeding on Lyclinis vespertina, and not, as generally 

 reported, on Silene inflata. The most remarkable form was 

 a light one, in which all the usual darker markings were so 

 much suppressed as to be only just traceable. At the other 

 extreme were a few specimens having the usual dark mark- 

 ings much intensified in colour and somewhat extended in 

 area. Another specimen was very light and uniform in 

 coloration, with a conspicuously dark orbicular on fore- 

 wings and unusually dark marginal bands on hind wings. 



Mr. Robson exhibited a variety of Smerinthus tilice, L., 

 without any trace of the usual dark band across the fore- 

 wings. It was bred from a dug pupa, and the larva may 

 therefore have fed up under normal conditions. It was 



