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FEBRUARY 2%th, 1889. 

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



Miss K. M. Hinchlifif, Messrs. J. F. Perry, A. W. Nott, H. 

 Moore, G. J. Randall, W. H. McLachlan, and J. Smith were 

 elected members. 



Mr. R. Adkin exhibited Dioryctria ahietella, Zinck, from 

 Forres, N.B., and from Sutton, near Deal, Kent. 



Mr. Tutt remarked that Mr. George Coverdale had once 

 taken a specimen at Shoeburyness, and another had been 

 recorded in the Entomologisf s MoiitJdy Magazine as having 

 been taken at Portland, a note being added that there were 

 no fir-trees in the vicinity. Mr. Adkin thought it was ex- 

 tremely difficult to say that there were no fir-trees in any 

 particular locality, as they were planted in most gardens and 

 shrubberies. At Shoeburyness there were gardens which 

 extended almost to the Saltings, and it was well known that 

 the larvae of D. abietella was found in very young trees. In 

 addition to this, a number of ships carrying timber came 

 almost daily to the River Thames, and he saw no reason why 

 the insect should not be conveyed on board in the pupal state, 

 emerge, and escape to the banks of the river ; the capture of 

 one or two solitary specimens away from localities where fir- 

 trees were known to occur, did not in his opinion prove that 

 the species did not feed on fir. Mr. Cooper mentioned that 

 when at Shoeburyness, during the week, he had noticed several 

 fir-trees. 



Mr. R. Adkin also exhibited Cravibiis dumetelliis, Hb., 

 from Forres, with C. pratellus, L., and C. dumetellus, Hb., 

 from Kent, and C. ericelliis, Hb., from Scotch localities, for 

 comparison, and called attention to the resemblance of the 

 Forres dumetellus to the Kentish pratellus, which, in colour, 

 size, and general appearance, they approached much more 

 closely than they did to the Kentish dumetellus; but he pointed 

 out that the form of the median white streak of the primaries 

 showed them clearly to belong to this species. 



Mr. A. Robinson exhibited five varieties o^Agrotis segetum, 

 Schiff., from Hunts, including one very pale male, one very dark 

 female, and three males, showing variations in the spots and 

 markings ; also two varieties of Agrotis exclamationis, L., one 



