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torium cannabinum, L., also two specimens of Mecyna poly- 

 gonalis, Hb., one taken on the sandhills at Deal, and the 

 other at Kingsdown, Kent, in 1877, off the flowers of Jimcus 

 obtitsijiorus, Ehrh. 



Mr. Hawes exhibited ova of Bombyx netistria, L., clustered 

 round the stalk of a pear. 



DECEMBER iT^th, 1888. 



T. R. BiLLUPS, Esq., F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Messrs. G. Tindall and M. Winkley were elected members. 



Mr. F. Enock exhibited a number of small Hymenopterous 

 insects belonging to the ChalcididcB, which Mr. Enock stated 

 were sent to him by Mr. Macer, who found them on the out- 

 side of sacks of Russian Wheat. He paid a visit to the 

 Flour Mills, and found the insect swarming in thousands on 

 the sacks and about the huge heap of grain — a sample of 

 which he took home and examined carefully, and found 

 several empty grains having a small puncture about 3-3 inch in 

 diameter, from which no doubt the fly had emerged. He 

 compared it with the parasites which he had bred from pu- 

 paria of the Hessian fly, and found it to be very closely allied 

 to the Russian Merisus intermedius of Dr. Lindeman, to 

 whom he had sent living specimens for identification. He 

 was inclined to think it was parasitic upon the Granary 

 Weevil {Calandra granaria, L.), specimens of which he found 

 among the grain. 



Mr. R. Adkin, on behalf of Mr. J. W. Austin, exhibited 

 the following varieties : Epinephele ianira, L., 5^ of a pale 

 shining fawn colour, Ccenonympha painphiliis, L., strongly 

 marked, measuring I32 inches in expanse, Lyccsna bellargus, 

 Rott, $ U-S., ground dark grey, usual spots absent, and 

 Bryophila perla, Fb., pale, zanthic, and slatey-grey forms ; 

 taken at Folkestone. 



Mr. J. T. Williams exhibited Cymatophora or, Fb., from the 

 Hebrides ; the specimens varied from the southern type in 

 the dull yellow colour of the stigmata. 



Mr. R. South exhibited British and foreign examples of 

 Dianthceciae allied to D. nana, Rott., and read the following 

 notes : Of the three species of Dianthoecia more or less closely 

 allied to D. nana, viz., compta, albimacula and ccesia ; compta is 



