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Mr. Howard Vaughan exhibited, among other species, 

 C(Bnony7npha typhoii Rott., wiiich he remarked differed from 

 the ordinary Perthshire specimens, many of them having 

 ocellated spots ; Scoparia ainbigualis, Tr., and var. atomalis 

 from North Knapdale and Kilmartin, Argyllshire, and from 

 Edlean Righ, Sound of Jura, a dark form of Larentia viridaria, 

 Fb., and two female Procris, which differed considerably from 

 P. statices, and upon the identity of which the members did 

 not hazard an opinion. Mr. Vaughan remarked that they 

 appeared to him to be intermediate between statices and 

 globularicB. 



Mr. C. A. Briggs exhibited the three British species of the 

 genus Procris, for comparison. 



Mr. J. Jenner Weir remarked that the goldfinch {Carduelis 

 elegans, Stephens), had been successfully introduced into 

 New Zealand, and he had received from that country a nest 

 of the bird (which he exhibited), and it was worthy of notice 

 that although the materials of which it was made were 

 necessarily different from those obtainable in England, yet 

 the nest had an extraordinary resemblance to those built in 

 this country. 



Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell exhibited specimens of Hyalina 

 draparnaldi, Beck, from Clifton, Bristol ; Clausilia rolphii, 

 Gray, from Crabbe Wood, near Winchester ; and C. biplicata, 

 Mont., from near Putney, He remarked that these were some of 

 the rarest shells found near London. H. draparnaldi occurred 

 at Isleworth, C. biplicata was locally abundant at Putney, and 

 C. rolphii was found in Surrey, Sussex, etc. 



Mr. Farrant exhibited fresh plants of the Starry-headed 

 Trefoil {Trifolium stellaticm, L.), from the sea-shore at 

 Shoreham, Sussex, and remarked that it was not so plentiful 

 as it used to be. 



JULY Zd^h, 1890. 



J. T. Carrtngton, Esq., F.L.S., President, in the Chair. 



Messrs. G. Bryant, A. Hewk and R. A. Clark, M.A., were 

 elected members. 



Mr. Wellman exhibited living larvae of Dianthoecia nana, 

 Rott., D. cucubali, Fues., and D. carpophaga, Bork. 



Mr. West exhibited Apamea ophiogramnia, Esp., taken 

 hovering over flowers in his garden at Streatham ; he men- 

 tioned that he still continued to find the larvae feeding on 

 ribbon grass Phalaris arundinacea, L. 



Mr. Carrington stated that Mr. Briggs when living at St. 

 John's Wood had two or three large plants of ribbon grass, 



