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Mr. C. G. Barrett exhibited the pupa-skin and cocoon of 

 Pamphila (Hesperia) comma, which he had received from 

 Mr. Hamm of Reading, together with some ova deposited 

 on stems of grass by a female while under observation. 

 Mr. Barrett called attention to the rough cocoon of thin 

 white silk garnished with short pieces of grasses and bits of 

 moss, and also to the close resemblance of the pupa to that 

 of a Thorn moth {Ennoinos). Mr. Frohawk was of opinion 

 that grass was the only food, since the young larvae kept by 

 him refused absolutely to touch anything but the common 

 grasses. His females also chose grass upon which to deposit 

 their ova. Dr. Chapman suggested that the Pamphilids are 

 usually grass feeders. Mr. Tutt said that the German 

 authorities gave various leguminous plants as the food, and 

 based their statements upon the fact of the species having 

 been bred from these by several collectors. On the Continent 

 the species was exceedingly restricted in its distribution, and 

 he suggested that its food-plant there was one that was not 

 generally common. Both Coronilla varia and Hippocrepis 

 coniosa had been particularly referred to as the pabulum 

 on the Continent. The former of these, however, was an 

 exceedingly rare British plant. 



Mr. C. A. Briggs exhibited a species of Hippoboscidae, 

 which had been taken off a starling, presumably Ornithomyia 

 avicularia, which infests many kinds of birds. 



Mr. Turner exhibited a living specimen of Uropteryx 

 sambucata, taken that day in his garden, and no doubt a 

 specimen of a second brood. 



OCTOBER 22nd, 1896. 

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



Mr. A. T. Potter, of Whangarei, Auckland, New Zealand, 

 was elected a member. 



Mr. R. Adkin exhibited a short series of strongly marked 

 forms of Hadena adusta, taken in Shetland during the past 

 summer. 



Mr. Ficklin exhibited specimens of Licperina cespitis, bred 

 from larvae picked from grass stems in the spring. They 

 were small, and he suggested that the proper food was the 

 roots of grass. Mr. Turner said that he had bred a full-sized 

 specimen of the species from a larva which he found when 

 it was three-fourths grown, and which he fed up on grass 

 supplied fresh each day. 



