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whatever on its growth. It was strictly herbivorous, and its 

 ahmentary canal much too delicate to digest earth. Lime 

 could only be of use to it when it had been absorbed and 

 assimilated by plants grown on a chalky soil. He thought 

 that the notion of these creatures burrowing for growth was 

 now fully exploded. Mr. Step remarked that the excrement 

 of the animals invariably showed remnants of the food. That 

 of Helix poiiiatia gave no evidence of soil having been absorbed 

 by it. He had fed the species on flour, and the excrement 

 was perfectly white instead of the usual green colour, the 

 whole of the flour not being taken into the system. 



Mr. R. Adkin exhibited a series of DiantJicecia nana, Rott, 

 bred this spring from Shetland (Unst) larvae ; the specimens 

 were all very dark, some being of a unicolorous blackish 

 grey ; also a yellow-banded example of Sesia myopiformis, 

 Bork., taken by Mr. Wellman some few years since at 

 Brixton, and remarked upon the red bands of the SesiidcB 

 occasionally assuming the yellow coloration. 



Mr. Oldham exhibited series of several species he had 

 bred from Epping Forest, also examples of other species 

 taken during the Society's Field Meeting at Wisley. Mr. 

 Adkin called attention to a specimen of R. cratcsgata, in 

 which there was a well-developed waved transverse line on 

 all the wings, and remarked that he considered this to be 

 most unusual. 



Mr. Dennis exhibited two curious examples oi Epinephele 

 ianira, L.; one had a ring of dark brown, ^e inch in diameter 

 on under side of left hind-wing, the centre filled up with the 

 ground colour, captured in the New Forest in July, 1894. 

 The other specimen, which was taken at Folkestone in July, 

 1885, had the fore- wings bone colour, except a thin line 

 along the costa and a broader irregular border along the 

 outer and inner margins, which were of the ordinary colour; 

 the usua lapical ocellus was absent; hind-wings with a 

 crescent-shaped patch of bone colour along costal and outer 

 margins, occupying about a third of the wing. 



Mr. Auld exhibited a long-bred series of Phorodesma 

 smaragdaria, Fb., from Essex. One specimen was without 

 the lighter markings, having only the white discoidal spots. 



Mr. C. A. Briggs exhibited a specimen of the rare lace- 

 wing fly, Notlwdivysa capitata, Fb., taken at "VVisley on June 

 22nd, and stated that only nine specimens had been recorded 

 as taken in this country during thirty years. 



Mr. Winkley exhibited some fossil wood which he had 

 obtained from Shanklin, and a large fossil shell studded with 



