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specimens, thinking I could easily obtain a series in sub- 

 sequent years. In 1840 I saw but one example ; and 

 although I visited Keymer at the proper season for many 

 years afterwards, I never saw another. One of these four 

 insects I desire now to place in the cabinet of the Society." 



Mr. Weir added that A. cratcEgi, was formerly very common 

 in the New Forest, but of course was now extinct ; also that 

 large numbers have been lately liberated in the neighbour- 

 hood of Windsor. 



An interesting discussion was then opened, by Mr. Winkley 

 inquiring what became of the salmon {Salmo salar) when 

 they descended the rivers, as they were seldom caught at sea 

 or round the coast ; Mr. Barrett and others taking part. 



As a further instance of the phenomenal spring, Mr. Weir 

 stated that cherries had been gathered on the 15th May ; 

 whilst Mr. Frohawk recorded the extraordinary fact of 

 Limenitis sihylla, L., having been taken in the New Forest 

 on the 22nd May, by which date nearly all the larvae of this 

 species had pupated. 



JUNE 22nd, 1893. 

 ■ E. Step, Esq., in the Chair. 



Mr. Turner stated that according to his experience this 

 season, sugar was not a success, as in his neighbourhood 

 recently, Acronycta megacephala, Fb., and one species of the 

 genus Caradrina were all that appeared ; he had, however, 

 netted in his garden forty-seven Eupithecia isogravimata, 

 H.S., flying around the clematis. Mr. Winkley said it 

 appeared to him that moths were more abundant in his 

 garden after it was watered, and that he knew of seventeen 

 Apamea ophiograntma, Esp., having been taken at Ealing, 

 although no ribbon-grass was growing near. 



Mr. West, of Greenwich, exhibited two pieces of rock from 

 Blackheath, out of the Woolwich and Reading beds in the 

 Lower London Tertiaries. These were a mass of mollusca, 

 which Mr, Step stated consisted chiefly of the Cyrena and 

 Ostrea and Paludina. 



Mr. Perks exhibited living specimens of an aquatic Coleop- 

 teron belonging to the genus Ochthebius ; also the ivy- 

 leaved duckweed, Lemna trisulca, from Horsington Hill, near 

 Hanwell. 



Mr. Turner read the report of the Society's excursion to 

 Oxshott, on the loth of June (see p. 136). 



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