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JULY 22nd, 1807. 
Mr. A. W. DENNIs in the Chair. 
Mr. Ashdown exhibited a living specimen of the rare and 
local Longicorn Oberea oculata, taken at Wicken Fen a few 
days previously. 
Mr. Turner, on behalf of Mr. Kedgeley, exhibited a specimen 
of the dragon-fly 4¢schna cyanea, which had been taken in the 
Borough on the 18th inst. : 
AUGUST 12th, 1897. 
Mr. R. ADKIN, F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 
Mr. McArthur exhibited a short series of Toxocampa cracce, 
bred from larve found in North Devon. 
Mr. J. N. Smith, on behalf of Mr. Fitzgerald, exhibited a 
remarkable smoky variety of Melanippe montanata from near 
Dursley, one of two beaten from the same hedge (see 
‘ohntom,  VOl xxx .179. 200); 
Mr. Tolhurst exhibited larve of Evzstalis tenax from a tank 
containing foul water in his garden at Beckenham. 
Mr. West, of Greenwich, exhibited specimens of the 
Hemipteron Atractotomus malt, which he had taken on 
whitethorn at Lewisham. 
Mr. South exhibited two bred specimens of Peronea 
permutana from Eastbourne, and remarked that they differed 
very considerably from the Wallasey type. 
Mr. Adkin exhibited specimens of Abraxas grossulariata, 
bred from a peculiarly marked female taken at Lewisham, 
and pointed out that none of the peculiarities of the parent 
were transmitted to the offspring. 
Mr. Harrison exhibited a specimen of the rare and local 
liliaceous plant Simethis bicolor, which had been found growing 
in the Greenwich marshes near the entrance to the Blackwall 
Tunnel. The only other recorded stations for this plant are 
Bournemouth, and near Derrynane, in Ireland. 
Mr. R. Adkin exhibited a specimen of the parasitical plant, 
the dodder, Cuscuta epithymum, which he had found attacking 
the furze somewhat extensively at Bournemouth, in many 
cases covering large patches of its host. 
