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confliia ; a specimen of Cramhis pinelliLs, L., from Box Hill, 

 and remarked that he had never taken the species but 

 singly; a captured and a bred specimen oi Anticlea rnhidata, 

 Fb., the latter being beautifully suffused with rosy colour 

 much deeper than usual ; also two specimens of Coccyx cos- 

 mophorana, Tr., taken near Carlisle. Mr. Barrett said that 

 the last-named species was always associated with the resin- 

 ous exudations caused on the pine-trees by Rctinia resinella, 

 L. Mr. McArthur stated that he had bred a considerable 

 number of this species from the resinous knobs, but always 

 in the year following the emergence of R. resinella. He sug- 

 gested that the egg was laid while the latter species was feed- 

 ing, and stated that the larvae of C. cosmophorana was found 

 among the frass of R, resinella and appeared to feed on it. 

 He had so taken it at Forres, in the knobs which always 

 occurred on the smaller young trees, but it did not to his 

 knowledge occur at Rannoch. Mr. Carrington believed that 

 there existed a record of its occurrence at the latter place, 

 but thought that it had never been authenticated, and stated 

 that it had been captured at various places where R. resinella 

 was not found. Mr. Adkin had for some years carefully 

 preserved the resinous knobs caused by R. resinella in ex- 

 pectation of breeding the species, but they had only produced 

 Dioryctria abietclla, Zinck. The larvae of this species, how- 

 ever, fed on the wood in the neighbourhood of the knobs. 

 Mr. Tutt believed that Lord Walsingham had recorded the 

 species from the Eastern Counties, and that it had occurred 

 in young plantations, suggesting its introduction with the 

 imported trees. Mr. South remarked that, like Tortrix 

 piceana, L., it might perhaps inhabit the extreme tops of the 

 trees, and that the stragglers found may be those which the 

 wind had dislodged. 



Mr. Ashdown exhibited a specimen of Acronycta aim, L., 

 bred from a larva taken at Richmond ; also a specimen of 

 Eumenes coarctata, L., with its cocoon, which resembles that 

 of Eriogaster lanestris. 



Mr. Briggs exhibited Pcriplaneta aiistralasice, captured some 

 years ago in one of the plant houses in Kew Gardens by the 

 Rev. Windsor Hambrough, and said that he believed it to 

 be the first record from England, though it had been taken 

 in some numbers in Belfast. 



Mr. Perks exhibited a specimen of the velvety-stemmed 

 Agaricns volntipes. 



