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N. trepida, Esp., Selenia illnstraria, Hb., and others. The 

 larger number of these were bred in March and April, from 

 larvae taken in the New Forest last autumn ; the pupae 

 having been kept in a room without a fire since the middle of 

 January, but always with a fire before that time. Mr. Tutt 

 said that on the 6th May, Lyccsna bellargus, Rott. was on the 

 wing in Kent ; also Nemeophila plantaginis, L., Enclidia mi, 

 Clerck., E. glyphica, L., etc., and pupae of Vanessa urticcB^ L., 

 were also found ; whilst Mr. Turner said he had also found the 

 young larvae of V. iwticcE on the same date. 



Mr. Jager said he had been breeding Cidaria truncata, 

 Hufn. from the &%^, and that although the young larvae 

 were on one occasion exposed to the snow, they were in no 

 way injured, and the perfect insects were now emerging. 



Mr. South reported having bred Coccyx strobilella, L., 

 from cones of spruce fir picked up in Buckinghamshire. 



MAY 2^th, 1893. 

 J. Jenner Weir, Esq., F.L.S., etc.. President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Adkin exhibited a bred series of Cidaria suffuinata, 

 Hb., from Forres, with bred series from Dover and Box Hill 

 for comparison ; also a bred series of Lobophora carpinata. 

 Berk, {lobulata, Hb.), from Rannoch, including one extreme 

 banded form, with southern series for comparison. 



Mr. Filer exhibited a specimen of Syrichthus malvce, L. 

 {alveolus, Hb.), van taras, Meig., from Epping. 



Mr. C. G. Barrett exhibited a box containing more than 

 twenty species of the Psychidse from the continent of Europe, 

 and especially desired to gain furtlier information with regard 

 to these little known and obscure insects. He stated that 

 the larvae lived in cases, after the manner of the Coleophora, on 

 furze, heath, grass, and the lichens of trees, rocks and bushes, 

 and that many entomologists considered them to be Bombyces, 

 not Tineina. Mr. Weir remarked that all the species seemed 

 excessively local, and g.ave his experience with P. villosella, 

 Och., stating that the female did not leave the case, that the 

 eggs were laid and hatched within this shelter, and that most 

 likely the first meal of the young larvae was the body of their 

 mother. 



Mr. West, of Streatham, on behalf of Mr. Trenerry, ex- 

 hibited a male and female of Pieris daplidice, L., captured 

 by a boy at Plymouth ; also a specimen of Smeri^tthus tilicB, 

 L., in which the rosy tint was very strongly developed, 

 making a very beautiful variety. 



