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Mr. Tutt remarked that during the week which Mr. 
Edwards and he had spent at Digne they only saw two 
specimens of Pyvameis cardm, both evidently just emerged, 
while specimens of P. atalanta were frequently seen bearing 
every trace of having hybernated. He said that the locality 
visited was 1900 feet above the sea level, and the condition 
of the vegetation was very similar to what was to be seen at 
the same time in our own country. The weather was, 
however, superb, and the heat intense. In spite of the un- 
advanced condition of the vegetation, insect life was very far 
ahead of what it was in England. In one day he had 
observed no less than fifty-two species of Lepidoptera. 
They all had the same period of rest as the species in 
England, but the conditions were much less intense. He 
specially noted that in one field our three species of Melitea 
were on the wing. 
Mr. Lucas exhibited specimens of Leucophea surinamensis, 
Linn. (= indica, Fab.), from the tropical forcing pits, Kew 
Gardens. Its original home was India and Ceylon, but it is 
now common in Mexico and North America (Sauss and 
Scudd). It is essentially a tropical species, but has been 
found in British Columbia. One specimen was mature, and 
two were immature. 
Mr. Montgomery exhibited the young larve of Apamea 
opliogramma, in situ, and stated that the ova had been 
deposited early in July along the midrib of the blade of 
ribbon-grass. The blade had then curled up so as to 
enclose the ova in a tube, but whether this was caused from 
the leaf fading in the natural way, or from the action of any 
substance coating the ova, he was unable to say. 
The larve emerged in about twelve days, and were grey — 
almost leaden in colour, short and stumpy, with a large black 
shining head. They were placed on a very vigorous plant 
of ribbon-grass in a 14-inch flower-pot. Nothing was 
seen of them in the autumn, and the plant looked so healthy 
that the prospect of finding any larve in the stems seemed 
remote. They were, in consequence, not examined. How- 
ever, in April the grass gave undoubted signs of something 
wrong. The plant threw up numerous new shoots, which 
withered away as soon as they became a few inches high. 
On pulling up some of the old shoots, many were found to 
be quite hollow and rotten for two or three inches from the 
root, while others had larve hanging out of them. On May 
1st they had attained the size of the larger of the two ex- 
hibited, and on examining them yesterday evening (the 12th) 
