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FUNE oth, 1897. 
Mr. R. ADKIN, F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 
Mr. Jas. Nicholson Smith, 28, Eastdown Park, Lewisham, 
was elected a member. 
Mr. Mansbridge exhibited a larva of Tephrosia crepuscularia 
beaten from yew, and a short series of imagines bred as a 
second brood from larve taken at the same place last year, 
also from yew. 
Mr. Malcolm Burr exhibited a few insects from the island 
of Socotra, and said that at acasual glance the fauna seemed 
to represent a transition from the Palzarctic region to the 
Ethiopian region. The butterflies and spiders in the collec- 
tion were being worked out, and among them several were 
new to science. 
Mr. H. J. Turner exhibited specimens of the flowers of 
bog-bean (Menyanthes trifoliata), and the cinquefoil (Potentilla 
comarum), a rather uncommon plant, both from the neigh- 
bourhood of Woolmer Forest, Hants. 
Mr. W. J. Lucas exhibited several ichneumons which he 
had bred this year from last year’s cocoons of Zygana 
trifolit ; also two specimens of an earwig (Chelisoches morio) 
recently taken in Kew Gardens, they had come from 
Mauritius in sugar-cane. In the discussion which ensued 
it was generally agreed that parasites emerged at a time 
when the larve of the host were likely to be found. 
Mr. Tutt gave an instance, in the case of Melitea aurinia, 
of a parasite having three separate emergences during the 
larval stage of the host. He said that he had just bred 
some ichneumons from the larvee of Cnethocampa pityocampa, 
the imagines of which did not emerge until August. How 
did these parasites live? He suggested the necessity of 
another host, and said that it was well known that some 
species had numerous hosts. Mr. Hall said that he had 
experience of a certain ichneumon being confined to the 
young stage only of Cucullia verbasct. _ 
Mr. R. Adkin exhibited a series of Taniocampa gothica 
from Loch Laggan, Inverness-shire, consisting of captured 
examples which largely followed the gothicinia form, and 
bred specimens which were without exception typical. He 
said that this series was a very fair representation of his 
experience of many attempts to rear the gothicina variety. 
He had on several occasions during recent years had well- 
defined examples of the variety sent to him alive, obtained 
