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present, and wasps were then extremely plentiful all oyer the 

 country in exactly the same manner as they now were. 



Mr. Billups mentioned that while collecting Hymenopteia 

 in company with Mr. Beaumont at Oxshot, Surrey, on the 

 i6th August, they had seen a pair of golden orioles {Oriolus 

 galhila, L.). Mr. Cooper said that in August he heard the 

 note of this bird at Sevenoaks, Kent ; the bird had bred in 

 Norfolk for the last two years. Mr. Jenner Weir mentioned 

 having heard of a pair at Bagshot, but they did not make 

 any nest. 



SEPTEMBER z^th, 1890. 

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



Mr. Percy Bright exhibited a bred series of Tceniocampa 

 gracilis, Fb., from larvae obtained in the New Forest, 

 comprising dark and red varieties ; Argynnis paplda, L., 

 blotched with white spots, and var. valezina, Esp. ; Argynnis 

 adippe, L., var. clendoxa, Ochs., the black variety oi Limenitis 

 sibylla, L., a long series of Boarmia repandata, L., including 

 the variety conversaria, Hb., from Devonshire, and melanic 

 forms from Sheffield, also forms frcm Perth and Shetland ; 

 a series oiMelqnthia bicolorata, Hufn., MAX.plunibata, Curt, from 

 Rannoch, and a series of Ainectra pilleriana, Schiff., the bog 

 form obtained near Bournemouth, and a specimen which had 

 been sent to him by a Mr. Mountford as a variety of Vanessa 

 iirticoe, L., and was stated to have been taken at Polegate, 

 Sussex, in 1888. Mr. Tutt remarked that this specimen 

 appeared to be identical with an American species, which 

 Mr. Jenner Weir said was Vanessa milberti. 



Mr. R. Adkin exhibited Myelophila cribrum, Schiff., and 

 HomcEosoma bincEvella, Hb., from the Essex coast, and re- 

 marked upon the protection afforded to these two species 

 when resting upon thistles, b}^ their resemblance to the seeds 

 of certain grasses which grow among the thistles and, hanging 

 over, rest upon the leaves in a similar manner to the moths. 



Mr. J. Jager exhibited a collection of macro-lepidoptera 

 made by him during August and September in the Isle of 

 Man, and remarked that butterflies were scarce owing to the 

 want of sunshine. Cidaria truncata, Hufn., was fairl\^ 

 common on the trunks of the ash trees, as was Cirroedia 

 xcrampeliita, Hb., at Douglas and Ramsey ; this latter species 

 was mostly found among the grass and the fallen leave--, 

 which it much resembled, around the trees; a beautiful dark 



