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where a sudden driving squall of snow coming along the 

 ride was photographed before it reached the operator. 

 Scenes from Holmwood and Coldharbour were next shown, 

 as well as one or two from below Leith Hill. Redlands 

 district was then portrayed, and the groups and avenues of 

 larch and Scotch fir were very well reproduced, especially 

 some rides which were covered by interlacing branches so 

 closely as to appear dark even on a bright day. From near 

 Abinger came a view of a group of silver pines with patches 

 of snow, and in many of the scenes the bilberry, so common 

 all along the sandy hills south of the North Downs, was 

 strongly in evidence. After urging entomologists to explore 

 some of the places he had referred to, and deprecating the 

 custom of many to go year after year to the same localities, 

 he showed a number of views of well-known spots in the 

 New Forest. The heathery landscape near Stoney Cross, 

 the banks of waving bracken, the shady rides studded with 

 beeches, the winding forest roads, were all beautifully pic- 

 tured and admirably described. The mossy knobs and the 

 roots of a massive beech were much admired. Views of 

 holly and beech growing together, a young beech growing 

 out of an old one, and an enlargement of the base of a 

 splendid spruce with cones scattered around it, concluded 

 a series of beautiful illustrations and a most interesting 

 address. 



APRIL \ifh, 1895. 

 C. G. Barrett, Esq., F.E.S., Vice-president, in the Chair. 



Mr. Winkley, on behalf of Mr. A. M. Montgomery, of 

 Ealing, exhibited a bred series of Nyssia hispidaria, Hb., and 

 contributed the following note : — 



" The female was captured at Richmond on February 

 i8th, 1894, during a very cold east wind which was suc- 

 ceeded by a sharp frost at night. The eggs were laid in 

 and under small pieces of bark in a chip box : 250 to 300 

 larvae emerged on April 3rd and 4th, and a few on the two 

 following days. As the oak was not in leaf, elm, birch, and 

 whitethorn were substituted, on the latter of which the 

 young larvae fed readily until oak was obtainable. The first 

 moult began on April gth, the second April 13th, the third 

 April 18th, and the fourth April 26th. On May 6th the 

 larvse began to go down, and all had buried themselves by 

 May 20th. Larvae in shallow mould came up again to the 



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