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of variation in the species, and a specimen of Ephestta 

 ficulella, Bar., taken in the Society's rooms. 



Mr. Mera exhibited a well-banded specimen of Argynnis 

 eupkrosyne, L., taken by himself at Chattenden, Kent. 



Mr. Carrington referred to what he had said at a previous 

 meeting as to his recent visit to Ostend, and remarked that 

 he was reported as having found the larva oi Argynnis latona, 

 L. ; this should have been the imago, as it occurred very 

 freely. The object of his visit was to obtain ova for the 

 purpose of studying the life-history of the larva ; after a long 

 search he had only succeeded in finding a single &^^. 



Mr. Percy Bright inquired as to the larvse oi Lycmta (ES,on, 

 Schiff., a species which occurred very freely in the New 

 Forest ; but he was unable to find the larvse. Mr. Carrington 

 stated in reply that Mr. Brj^ant had been unsuccessful in 

 obtaining the larvs in May ; and he had himself tried to 

 obtain ova, although he had taken many hundreds of the butter- 

 fly, he yet failed in getting ova. One of the supposed food- 

 plants was Genista anglica, L., and this occurred so sparingly 

 on the racecourse at Lyndhurst, the headquarters of the butter- 

 fly there, that it was impossible that it could serve as the 

 food-plant for so large a number as would represent the 

 butterflies, Mr. Weir said that about forty-five years ago the 

 species occurred at Lewes, and there was certainly no Genista 

 anglica there. Mr. Barrett pointed out that the species had 

 been reared and described by the late Mr. Buckler. It fed 

 upon OrnitJiopus perpusillus (Bird's foot vetch). 



Mr. Carrington remarked on the general autumnal flowering 

 of plants. While on his way to Belgium, he had noticed in 

 Paris, on the boulevards, that the horse chesnuts were in 

 flower for a second time ; out of perhaps every hundred trees 

 there were thirty in flower. In England, in some localities, 

 the red poppy was flowering as freely as in the early part of 

 July ; between Sutton and Epsom the fields were quite red 

 with the poppy flowers. He had also noticed in gardens, that 

 the cultivated poppies were blooming much more freely than 

 in other years. 



Mr. Jenner Weir had noticed exactly the same thing, and 

 had heard of the common ox-lip being in flower. Mr. 

 Billups mentioned that at Peckham there was ahorse chesnut 

 •that invariably bloomed twice a year. Mr. R. Adkin had 

 noticed the poppies at Birchington, and had also seen the 

 common broom in flower within the last week. 



