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males were appearing, and the last female left the pupa just 

 fourteen days after the last male. The weather, during the 

 last week in July and the first few days of August, was some- 

 what cooler than it had been previously, and probably this 

 caused the emergences to extend over so long a time." Mr. 

 Adkin also exhibited a short series of Pygcera pigra, Hufn. 

 {redusa, Fb.), bred from larvae taken in Sutherlandshire last 

 autumn ; the specimens, had a brighter appearance than the 

 ordinary southern type, owing chiefly to the redder-colouring 

 of the usual chocolate markings. 



Mr. J. Weir stated that during a tour he had lately made 

 in Belgium, he was constantly on the alert to look out for the 

 two species of Colias, C. edusa, and C. hyale, not only in the 

 places he visited, but also when travelling on the railways. 

 His journey commenced at Calais, and he then passed into 

 Belgium, visiting Tournai, Mons, Namur, Huy, Dinant. 

 Hastiere, Louvain, Ghent, Bruges, Ypres and Furnes, then 

 re-entering France. He remained a few days at Dunkirk ; 

 thence back to Calais, and crossing the Channel to Dover, 

 came home through Kent. During the whole of this journey 

 he saw no C. hyale, and only one C. edusa : this he saw in 

 a garden in the suburbs of Ghent. 



Referring to Heodes {P olyommatus) phlceas, Mr. Weir said 

 that the species had been very common in his garden at 

 Beckenham this September, and that since the first of that 

 month he had seen more of this species there than in the 

 whole ten years he had lived at Beckenham. They were 

 doubtless the third emergence of the butterfly, and it was 

 clear, therefore, that the almost unprecedented hot and dry" 

 summer had favoured the species in a remarkable degree. 



Mr. Tutt gave his experience of a day or two entomo- 

 logizing in the environs of Paris about the ist August, when 

 Colias hyale, L., was in swarms, — many other things, such as 

 Lythria purpiiraria, L., Agrophila sulphur alls, L., Acontia 

 luctuosa, Esp., etc., etc., being common. 



The appearance of Colias edusa, Fb., was reported from 

 Penzance, Folkestone, Hastings, Bournemouth, Sidmouth, 

 etc., by Messrs. Turner, Fenn, Auld, and Knock ; and it was 

 also stated that the second brood oi Fidonia atomaria, L., had 

 appeared at Cuxton and Folkestone. 



Mr. Enock exhibited specimens of wheat stems containing 

 the pupse of the Hessian-fly, Cecidomyia destructor. Say., from 

 Sidmouth, where he said he had found it infesting the wheat 

 and barley ; also examples of Chlorops tcBniopus, Mg.,, the 

 destructive ribbon-footed corn-fly. 



