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Carrington remarked it seemed to be generally known that it 

 did not appear outside the metropolitan area. Mr. Briggs 

 added that it was only found in the North and East of 

 London. 



Mr. D. J. Rice exhibited on behalf of Mr. H. Syer Cuming, 

 F.S.A., the original rules and constitution of the Aurelian 

 Society, dated June 1st, i8oi, and signed by A. H. Haworth, 

 F.L.S., John Burrell, F.L.S., William Skrimshire, Jun.,Thos. 

 Skrimshire, LL.B,, Robert Scales, Thos. G. Ingall, John 

 Hatchett, Peter M. Watson, John Rippon, William Anderson, 

 William Jackson Hooker, Richard Cuming. The rules and 

 objects of the Entomological Society of London, founded 

 on the Aurelian Society, drawn up on parchment, dated 

 1st May, 1806, and signed by A. H. Haworth, F.L.S., 

 John Burrell, M.A., F.L.S., T. Skrimshire, R. Scales, T. G. 

 Ingall, J. Hatchett, J. Howard, J. Hooker, Jun., R. Cuming, 

 James Savage, J. S. Neale, William Savage Ibbetson Fentoii. 

 Printed book of Bye-laws of the Entomological Society of 

 London, 1807. An autograph letter and circular signed by 

 A. H. Haworth, President, dissolving the Entomological 

 Society, postmark April loth, 1806. A priced catalogue of 

 Haworth's Collection, which was sold by auction at Stevens' 

 on Monday, 23rd day of June, 1834, and the ten following 

 days (Sunday excepted) at 12 o'clock. A catalogue of 

 Exotic insects belonging to the Entomological Society of 

 London, sold by auction at Stevens', Friday, i6th of April, 

 1858. 



Mr. E. Step exhibited the Wood Spurge {Euphorbia 

 amygdaloides, L.), and remarked on the structure of the 

 flower. He said that all the British species of Euphorbia 

 differed very little, so far as the flower structure was con- 

 cerned, and this in connection with the milky juice, noticed 

 on breaking the stems, enabled botanists to always identify 

 the genus. 



Mr. Tugwell exhibited flowering spikes of the common 

 Butter-bur {Petasites vulgaris, Desf.), and mentioned that it 

 was an interesting plant to Lepidopterists, as being the food- 

 plant of HydrcBcia petasitis, Dbl. 



Mr. Carrington said he understood the northern collectors 

 took the species flying slowly over and crawling about 

 beneath the leaves. 



Mr. Tutt remarked that at Sheffield, the species was taken 

 in the factory yards on the plants which grew among the 

 refuse, but it was very rarely taken on the larger plants 

 growing on the river banks. 



