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Mr. Lucas read a paper entitled " Some Surrey Shells," 

 which was illustrated by some fifty lantern slides. After a 

 few general remarks on collecting in this branch of natural 

 historj^ a glance was bestowed upon the subdivisions of the 

 mollusca, after which a majority of the land and fresh- water 

 shells found within or near the Kingston district of Surrey 

 were treated seriatim. In connection with Anodonta cygnca 

 and Helix pomatia, — the one a bivalve and the other a uni- 

 valve, — some account of the anatomy of the mollusca was 

 given. Reference was made to the interesting subject of 

 the dispersal of shells, and one or two slides were shewn 

 illustrating it. Both the lantern and the microscope were 

 employed to exhibit the tooth-bearing palate or odontophore 

 of the univalves, while by means of the latter instrument 

 those interested were able to examine the curious love-darts 

 of one of the common land shells {Helix nemoralis). 



DECEMBER Stk, 1898. 

 Mr. J. W. TuTT, F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Bliss, University School, Hastings, and Mr. Sich, 65, 

 Barrington Road, Chiswick, were elected members. 



Mr. Carpenter exhibited a series of Melitcsa cinxia, being 

 some fourteen varieties out of about two hundred imagines 

 which emerged. No very extreme aberrations were bred, 

 the majority being exceedingly constant. One specimen 

 had the fulvous bands on the under surface much enlarged 

 in area, without the usual black markings. The other 

 varieties were examples with the black markings on the 

 under surface more or less increased in width. 



Mr. Brooks, of Rotherham, exhibited a store-box with a 

 considerable number of species bred by him near that town 

 during the year. Among them were Apamea didyma 

 ipculed), a long and varied series ; Euchelia jacobcece, a sooty 

 variety with a pink flush ; A mphidasys behdaria, var. doiible- 

 dayaria, very fine intermediate forms and light forms, one of 

 the latter being very transparent, with a minimum of dark 

 markings ; Triphcsna fimbria, in great variety ; and T. 

 janthina, nicely marked specimens. 



Rev. E. Tarbat exhibited the cocoons of Phisia inoneta 

 found in a friend's garden at Weybridgc. 



Mr. R. Adkin exhibited a series of Xyliiia socia {petrificatd) 

 and examples of Calocainpa vcinsta, C. c. volet a, Agrotis segc- 

 tum, Miselia oxyacanthce, Cidaria siderata, all from co. West 



