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Fb., this season. Mr. Hall had captured four at Box Hill. 

 Mr. West, of Streatham, had seen twenty or thirty at Selsea 

 Bill, and understood that var. helice had been taken in the Isle 

 of Wight. Mr. Frohawk reported some twenty specimens 

 from Salisbury, and Mr. Turner had taken a couple of males 

 on Reigate Hill. 



Mr. Barrett thought that sugar as an attraction for moths 

 was profitable now, and said that Noctua depimcta, L., had 

 been reported, and that Orthosia stispecta, Hb., was exceed- 

 ingly abundant in the north of England. Mr. South said 

 that in the Macclesfield district, sugar had been of no use 

 whatever during the early summer months of the present 

 year. 



SEPTEMBER 12th, 1895. 

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



Mr. Jager exhibited a very dark specimen of Agrotis 

 vestigialis, Hufn. {valligera, Hb.), taken in North Wales. 

 The hind wings were remarked as sharing in the melanism 

 equally with the fore-wings. 



Mr. Fremlin exhibited a beautiful series of Polia chi, L., 

 var. olivacea, St., received from Mr. Arkle of Chester ; a 

 bred series oi Phorodesina sviaragdaria, Fb., from Essex; 

 and a bred specimen of Prionus coriarius, L., from a larva 

 found in Surrey. 



Mr. Tutt exhibited a number of cases of a large species of 

 Psyche, sent to him from the Argentine Republic. They 

 were formed of a dense felt-like internal layer, surrounded 

 by small lengths of stems placed in all positions, these being 

 covered externally by a thin tough covering. Many of the 

 cases when opened contained ova, from which in a very 

 short space of time the young larvae hatched and spread in 

 all directions, devouring apparently a very large number of 

 substances, and forming small papery cases. Quite recently, 

 he stated, Professor Smith, of New Jersey, U.S.A., had 

 written the life-history of Thyridopteiyx ephejuercsfonnis. 

 Haw., a species very similar if not identical with this, which 

 had done a vast amount of damage in America. The female 

 was vermicular, and never left the case. It was able to turn 

 in the cocoon to allow pairing to take place, the body of the 

 male being very extensile. The eggs were laid in the cocoon, 

 and it was considered that the first meal of the young larva 

 was the remains of its mother. The cases of the males were 

 considerably smaller than those of the females. 



