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deposit of sand and debris. Sagartia bellis and S. tro- 

 glodytes were more difficult still to obtain, owing to their 

 choice of narrow fissures in the rock for their homes, the 

 column being elongated in order that the disc could be ex- 

 panded above. The pink-tipped green tentacled Anthus 

 cereus was fairly abundant ; also a variety lacking the pink 

 colouring. 



Mr. Harry Moore exhibited Orthoptera from Cadiz, viz., 

 Decticus tntermedius, D. albifrons, Pachytylus cinerascenSy and 

 the blue form of CEdipoda fasciata. 



SEPTEMBER 22nd, 1892. 

 C. G. Barrett, Esq., F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Robert Adkin exhibited a short series of Oxyptilus- 

 distans, Zell., and O. pilosellcB, Zell., taken this summer near 

 Dover ; also, on behalf of Mrs. Hutchison, of Leominster, a 

 small collection of Micro-lepidoptera from Cornwall, in- 

 cluding Diaseniia literata, Scop., and a remarkably brightly- 

 marked form of Herbula cespitalis, Schiff., said to be 

 exceedingly local. 



Mr. South exhibited a variable series of Grapholitha 

 cinerana, Haw., taken in a field on the border of Middlesex, 

 between Northwood and Rickmansworth. He stated that 

 the species was abundant on the trunks of two grey poplars 

 {Popidus canescens) at the end of July and first week in 

 August. Mr. South also exhibited G. nisella, Clerck., and 

 the varieties pavonana, Don., bceberana, St., and rhom- 

 bifasciaiia, Haw., and remarked that although some 

 specimens of the latter species varied in the direction of 

 G. cinerana they could always be distinguished by the 

 different shape of the outer edge of the basal patch. Two 

 examples of petrana, Huhn. ^cuspidana, Haw., a form which 

 was generally considered to be a variety of G. nisella, were 

 found with G. cinerana. As the basal patch of these 

 specimens agreed with that of G. cinerana, he was inclined to 

 think that petrana was a form of G. cinerana rather than of 

 G. nisella. 



Mr. Fenn stated that both species of Grapholitha were 

 abundant on poplars in Kent. Mr. Barrett observed that he 

 had always understood that G. nisella was associated with 

 sallow, and that its occurrence on poplar was new to him. 



Mr. South stated that he had never met with G. nisella on 

 poplar, nor with G. cinerana among sallow. 



