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Mr, P. F.J. Lowrey exhibited a male specimen of TcsniocampJL 

 stabilis. View., taken in copula with a female of T. gothica, L., 

 at sallow bloom, Darenth Wood, Kent. He stated that ova 

 were obtained, only a portion of which hatched, and the larvae 

 subsequently sickened and died. 



Mr. F. G. Fenn, on behalf of Mr. T. D, A. Cockerell, 

 exhibited the following Lichens : Peltigera Jwrizontalis, L., 

 Placodium elegans, Link., also an undetermined species of 

 Omphalodmm, and the following notes from Mr. Cockerell 

 were read : — 



" The two specimens exhibited are interesting as illustrating 

 the wide distribution of lichens. Peltigera horizontalis, L., 

 was gathered at Naomi, Summit Co., Colorado, on September 

 1st, where it was growing in some abundance close to the 

 creek, at an altitude of over 8,000 feet. 



"Placodium elegans, Link., placed by some authors in the 

 genus Lecanora, is the orange lichen on the twig, the dark 

 brown one being an undetermined species of Oniphalodiuin. 

 This lichen was found early in October, by Surface Creek, in 

 Delta Co., at about 8,500 feet altitude. Both these species 

 are British, as I find P. horizontalis recorded from Westmore- 

 land, and P. elegans has been gathered in the Grampian 

 mountains in Scotland. 



" 1 met with three species common to the British fauna on 

 Surface Creek — Vanessa antiopa, L., among the insects ; 

 Conulus (or Zonites) fnlvtts MiilL, and Pisidiiun pusilhcni, 

 Gmel., among the mollusca; while the British flowering- 

 plants were represented by no less than seven species — 

 Fragaria ^esca, L., Epilobiuni angustifoliiini, L., E. alpimnn, 

 L., Veronica serpyllijolia, L., Achillea inillefolitnn, L., 

 Canipamda rotundifolia, L., and Chenopodiiini rubruvi, L. 

 The English magpie, also, had its representative in the larger 

 American form Pica rustica var. Imdsonica, Scop." 



Mr. J. T. Williams called attention to the abundance of 

 larvae of Bombyx neustria, L., and mentioned that he had 

 noticed a number of hybernated specimens of Vanessa cardui, 

 L. Reference was made by several Members to the unusual 

 abundance of many species in the larval stage, and to the 

 number of imagines of V. cardici, observed in different 

 localities. 



