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OCTOBER \^th, 18S5. 

 R. South, Esq., F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. T. R. Billups exhibited specimens of Tettigoinetra 

 iuipressopHJictatus, Dufour, and communicated the following 

 note : — 



" It was first taken in 1865 at Freshwater Bsy, Pembroke- 

 shire, by the Rev. T. A. Marshall, in a sheltered hollow, 

 thinly covered with thyme and short grass. It was there 

 very common, but restricted to a small area. It is a sluggish 

 insect, concealing itself on the ground, where it is not 

 eisily detected. According to Signoret it occurs near Paris, 

 and on both sides of the Mediterranean. The present 

 specimens were taken in a little hollow, in some numbers, on 

 the range of hills known as the Hog's Back, running from 

 Guildford into Portsmouth, by Dr. Capron, of Shere, near 

 Guildford, who has generously presented them to me." 



Mr. Adkin exhibited a bred series of Cidaria pj'iuiata, 

 Linn., and remarked that the larvae should be ted on red, not 

 black, currant, and suggested as a probable cause of the 

 failure of some who had attempted to rear this species during 

 the present summer, that the latter food-plant had been used. 

 In his experience it was easy to rear. The specimens now 

 shown were the descendants of a moth received from Folke- 

 stone in August of last year. The ova commenced to hatch 

 on May 5th, the larvse fed readily on the young leaves of the 

 red currant, on which they were placed, the first spinning up 

 on June 24th, the imagines emergmg between July loih and 

 26th. The larvae required but little attention during the time 

 that they were feeding, and in spinning up appeared to select 

 a part of the stem of the food-plant just below the juncture of 

 the branches, several cocoons being placed together, the cluster 

 thus formed often completely encircling the main stem. 



NOVEMBER ^th, 1885. 



R. South, Esq., F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. T. R. Billups exhibited two species of Coleoptera, 

 viz., Mononychns pseudacori, F., and Lina longicollis, Suf., 



