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and obtained A. ophiogramma. He changed his residence on 

 several occasions, taking with him these plants, and by so 

 doing he had been able to capture a specimen or two of this 

 species every year : Mr. Hickling, on taking a house at Sidcup, 

 Kent, found the garden very much overgrown, and in putting 

 it in order he found a number of larvae among the roots of riband- 

 grass. Thinking it nothing but a common species, he only 

 kept about twenty of these, but they turned out to be A. 

 ophiogramma. Mr. Hickling had told him that he must have 

 destroyed a great number in digging over the ground, and he 

 had not been able to obtain the species since. 



Mr. Turner exhibited a variety of the larva of Biston 

 hirtaria, Clerck., the usual brown pigment not having 

 developed. 



Mr. Moore exhibited a variety of Arc tm caia, L., bred from 

 a larva taken in his garden at Rotherhithe ; the superior 

 wings were suffused with brown, the usual cream markings 

 only being represented by a faint line on the inner margin, 

 the spots on the inferior wings coalesced, the red only 

 appearing at the base, along the inner, and a portion of the 

 hind, margin. 



Mr. C. S. Bouttell exhibited three specimens of Melanippe 

 flttctiiata, L., taken in his garden at Catford, Kent ; one was 

 completely banded, the second an extremely pale form with 

 hardly any markings except a small spot on each of the 

 superior wings, and the third a very dark form, closely ap- 

 proaching the variety neapolisata, Mill. ; also varieties of 

 Hypsipetes sordidata, Fb., bred from larvae obtained from 

 Sallow at Hastings, Sussex. 



Mr. Carrington exhibited specimens of the Sea-holly 

 [Eryngium maritimtim, L.), and remarked that the larva of 

 one of the rarer Tortrices Argyrolepia maritimana, Gn., fed 

 in the roots, and was taken in good numbers along the coast, 

 where the plant occurred, up to the Norfolk coast ; the flowers 

 were particularly attractive to the genus Vanessa, and to other 

 butterflies which were out when the plant was in bloom. On 

 one occasion he saw some hundreds of specimens of V. cardui, 

 L., and other species attracted by some fifty or a hundred 

 flowers. He also exhibited the Seaside Bindweed {Convol- 

 vulus soldanella, L.), which he stated occurred on sand close 

 to the sea. 



Mr. C. G. Barrett mentioned that Depressaria cnicella, Tr., 

 fed in the shoots of Erynghim maritimum. 



Mr. Step exhibited and remarked on the Nettle-leaved 

 Bell-flower {Campamila trachelium, L.), describing in detail 



