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JULY 8th, 1897. 
Mr. R. ADKIN, F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 
Mr. A. Perry, Anerley, S.E., was elected a member. 
Mr. Lucas exhibited three nymph-cases of the dragon-fly 
Anax formosus, out of about twenty taken by himself and 
Mr. W. Prest at the Black Pond, near Esher, on June 17th 
and 21st, 1897. 
Mr. Winkley exhibited a specimen of the carnivorous slug, 
Testacella haliotidea. Some time ago he had turned down 
several that had been given him by Mr. Briggs. He pre- 
sumed that this was one of them, although he was quite 
unable to explain how it had succeeded in escaping the gulls 
and teal which were kept in his garden, and were free to 
run all over the ground. 
Mr. Auld exhibited a fine bred series of Phorodesma 
bajularia from the New Forest. 
Mr. Malcolm Burr exhibited a small collection of Ortho- 
ptera from the Persian Gulf, collected by Mr. J. H. Hiles. 
They were chiefly European species (see ‘‘ Entomologist,” 
July, 1897). 
Mr. Ficklin exhibited three specimens of Dianthecza luteago, 
var. barrettiit, taken in Cornwall this year. They differed 
considerably from the Irish form, being very grey in colour. 
Mr. Mera exhibited a bred series of Hadena dissimilis 
(suasa) from Essex. In one specimen the usual markings 
were but little in evidence, the whole wing being streaked 
longitudinally. 
Mr. Turner exhibited a bred series of Cleora lichenaria 
from Ashdown Forest; also series of the following 
Coleoptera :—Strangaha melanura from Ranmore Common, 
Cryptocephalus aureolus and C. hypocherzdis from Reigate, 
Cionus scrophularie from Chalfont Road, Gidemera nobilis 
and C&. lurida from Reigate, Rhynchites conicus from 
Loughton, and Leptura livida from Canvey Island. 
Mr. Robert Adkin exhibited a series of Eupithecia satyrata, 
var. curzont, bred from larve taken in the Shetland Isles in 
1896. He said that this variety was first obtained by 
Mr. McArthur while collecting in Shetland nearly twenty 
years since, but being subsequently taken by Mr. Curzon 
was described and named after him by Mr. Gregson, of 
Liverpool, as a new species, although the original specimens 
were at the time being worked out by others, and have since 
proved to be a very marked variety of FE. satyrata 
(Entom-.y) volaxivyp. 303 ; andi xvil.. ps 230). 
