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JUNE 22,th, 1894. 

 E. Step, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. A. G. Scorer, of Abercorn Lodge, Upper Hamilton 

 Terrace, N.W., was elected a member. 



Mr. C. Fenn exhibited a bred series of Geometra papilionaria, 

 L., and remarked that two larvae of the brood were still not full 

 grown ; a specimen of HeliotJiis peltigera, Schiff,, taken in his 

 own garden at Lee on the evening of June 4th round the 

 blossoms of the sweet rocket ; and he also exhibited a very- 

 long series of Selenia lunaria, Schiff., bred from one batch of 

 ova, and read the following notes : — 



" In May, 1893, I captured a female example of Selenia 

 lunaria at Bexley. She deposited a good batch of eggs, 

 which duly hatched, and the larvse fed up on birch. In 

 August (1893) nineteen individuals emerged, of these 

 eighteen were females and one male. Two females were 

 bred in November and another in December. The spring 

 brood commenced to appear in April, 1894. The first 

 twenty bred were females, but among the forty which sub- 

 sequently emerged the sexes were evenly distributed. The 

 summer or August brood {delunarid) is very distinct in 

 colour from the spring emergence, but the occurrence of an 

 example of the summer form among the spring brood is 

 rather suggestive that the summer brood is only an occasional 

 occurrence, and has originated in recent times. I may add 

 that I bred a dark female this year among the pale August 

 specimens." 



Mr. Robert Adkin exhibited the following Lepidoptera, 

 taken at Reigate on the occasion of the Society's Field 

 Meeting on June gth : — 



LyccBua icarus, Rott., a variety of the underside of the male, 

 in which the black spots are much reduced in size, and those 

 near the base of the fore-wings absent ; Lyccena bellargus, 

 Rott., blue varieties of the female ; Pachetra leucophcBa, 

 View., a female example that was taken at rest on the side 

 of a chalky bank ; and an unusually large dark specimen of 

 Oncocera ahenella, Zinck. 



Mr. Dennis exhibited some ova and young larvae of 

 Bombyx rubi, L., which he had taken at the Society's Field 

 Meeting at Reigate. A discussion ensued as to the difficulty 

 of rearing the species, several members had always been un- 

 successful, while others had bred but a very small percentage. 

 It was remarked that the larvae did not feed at all after 

 hybernation. 



