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New Forest, and remarked upon its disappearance from the 

 particular locality where it was originally taken, and its re-dis- 

 covery in another part of the Poorest. 



Mr, Hawes exhibited Tapinostola extrema, Hb., from Hun- 

 tingdonshire, taken in July ; also young larvae of Apatura iris, 

 L., and remarked that it had no horn before the third month. 



Mr. Frohawk exhibited a variety of EpinepJiele hyperanthes, 

 L., with lanceolate spots, from the New Forest. Mr. Jenner 

 Weir stated that he had two of this variety from the same 

 locality. Mr. Carrington remarked that he had seen hundreds 

 of this species in the New Forest, but the only variety he met 

 with was the one known as arete, Miill. 



Mr. Joy exhibited Pliisia festucce, L., larva and pupse, and 

 remarked on the apparent double-broodedness of this species; 

 he understood that at Manchester it occurred in June, but he 

 had taken it in the latter part of August. 



Mr. J. Jenner Weir exhibited a variety of the Devil's-bit 

 Scabious (Scabiosa succisa, L.), with the flowers of a dirty 

 lavender colour. Mr. Carrington said he had seen this variety in 

 the North of England, and especially in the Shropshire district. 



Mr. Step exhibited the Common Ceterach, or Scale-fern 

 {Ceterach officinarum, Willd.), from Somersetshire, and re- 

 marked that it was formerly recorded as found on a tomb- 

 stone in Fulham Churchyard and at Highgate ; but he knew 

 no locality for the species near London at the present time. 

 Mr. Turner said that fifteen or eighteen years ago it used to 

 occur in Headley Lane. Mr. Jenner .Weir mentioned that he 

 found but one plant at Lewes, and that was fifteen or sixteen 

 years ago. Mr. Carrington said he had found it behind the 

 house of Sir Thomas Moncriefif, at Perth. 



Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell read a note on the nomenclature of 

 some British slugs. The species commonly called Ainalia 

 niarginata, found commonly near London, was not the true 

 A. niarginata, Draparnaud (which did not appear to be 

 found in England), but was the Amalia carinata (Leach, 

 1820). The South European sub-species, known as carinata, 

 Risso., was antedated by Leach's name, and must now be 

 called A. fulva (Paulucci). There was a paper by Dr. J. 

 Kaleniczenko, published in 185 1, which antedated some of 

 Moquin-Tandon's varieties oiArionater and Limax ttiaximus. 

 Thus we must now write Limax niaximus van krynickii, Kal., 

 instead oi johnstoni, Moq. 



Mr. Carrington made some remarks on his experiences in 

 Belgium this year. He had found Arion ater var. rubra, 

 Moq., near Brussels ; and in the market-place he had noticed 



