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present season. Numbers of specimens had been taken as 

 near as the Channel Islands, and around Paris it had been 

 abundant. 



Mr. Carpenter reported that on August 27th of this year 

 he had seen, and subsequently captured, a newly hatched 

 coot {Fulica atra) on the Thames at Marlow. 



SEPTEMBER 28M, 1899. 



Mr. A. Harrison, F.L.S., F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Dennis exhibited photographs of the larvae of 

 Mamestra persicarice and Chcerocanipa elpenor to show their 

 resting habit. 



Mr. Jager exhibited some of his more important captures 

 in South Devonshire this year, including series of Caradrina 

 amhigua and Acontia luctuosa ; also specimens of Lithosia 

 caniola, Leucania albipuncta, and Synia miisciUosa. 



Mr. A. Harrison exhibited long and variable series of 

 Agrotis vestigialis {valligera) and of A. tritici from the sand- 

 hills of Wallasey. 



Mr. R. Adkin exhibited specimens of the Lepidoptera taken 

 at Wisley on the occasion of the Society's Field Meeting 

 in July. 



Mr. Edwards exhibited a pupa of Deilephila euphorbicB and 

 the slight cocoon the larva had made in the small box 

 in which it pupated. The larva was obtained at Macunagna. 

 Dr. Chapman said that he had a number of larvae of this 

 species which pupated about the first week of September, 

 and, very much to his surprise, an imago emerged about 

 eighteen days after the last larva had gone down. Mr. Tutt 

 said that individual specimens often came out in this way. 



Mr. Turner exhibited a bred series of Cabera pusavia 

 showing very extreme variation in the position, relative 

 position, intensity, and suppression of the transverse lines. 

 He also showed a very fine variety of the female of Boinbyx 

 quercus, v. calluncB, in which the area inside the transverse 

 bar was much suffused with the dark male coloration, and 

 the broad marginal area was very pale, and either poorly 

 scaled, or the scales on that area were semi-diaphanous. The 

 series was bred from larvae taken near Carlisle. 



Mr. Manger exhibited a number of crustaceans and small 

 starfish taken on the north coasts of Europe and Asia 

 by some members of the expedition which is annually sent 

 to attempt the navigation of the rivers Obi and Yenesei. He 



