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at West Norwood in 1888, the species having been two years in pupa. Mr. South, 

 Hypsipetes sordidata, Fb., one being strongly banded with red, and having a red- 

 dish spot at the base of the primaries, bred from a larva found in Buckinghamshire ; 

 in another, the same markings were reproduced in a colour almost white, the larva 

 from which this was bred was found in Devon, both larvae were fed on sallow ; with 

 reference to the first example, Mr. South stated that he had had some hundreds of 

 this species through his hands, but had nerer met with this particular form before. 

 Mr. South also showed an unusually dark form of Larentia didymata, L., from 

 Durham, where it had been exceedingly common. Mr. R. Adkin, Cleora gJabraria, 

 Hb., bred from the New Forest, and Coccyx tcedeUa, Clerck, taken on the occasion 

 of the Society's excursion to Leatherhead. Mr. Moore, two varieties of Abraxas 

 grossulariata, L. Mr. Tugwell, on behalf of Mr. G-. T. Porritt, larvse o? Etipithecia 

 extensaria, on substituted food, Artemisia abrotanum. Mr. Tugwell also exhibited 

 a box of Arctia Caia, L., of which he stated he had bred some hundreds this season, 

 and only obtained one variety, the wings of which did not expand. Mr. Hawes, 

 living larvse of Argynnis Selene, Schiff., and A. Euphrosyne, L., which were about to 

 hibernate. Mr. Jenner Weir, living larvse of Psyche villosella, Och., and drew 

 attention to the diiferent kind of material from which the cases had been constructed, 

 one singular case was formed entirely from pieces of rush, each about one quarter of 

 an inch in length, and although he had had this specimen about two months, it 

 appeared not to have added to its case, most of the cases had been commenced with 

 the fragments of grass, and heath afterwards used. He also showed one larva from 

 which he had removed the entire case, and had supplied it with strips of coloured 

 paper, from which in a few days it had formed a new habitation, the coloured paper 

 had also been used by another specimen, which had not been deprived of its case ; 

 during the last two months most of the specimens liad doubled the length of their 

 cases. The case was always made from the feeding or proximal end, and never from 

 the distal end, from which latter the imago emerged. In one instance, where he had 

 made the experiment of cutting off the distal end, the larvse being unable to repair 

 the breach, forsook the case and made another habitation. Mr. Bouttell exhibited a 

 pale form of Zygana Jilipendula, L., from Leigh, Essex, and Hesperia ^tweo^a, taken 

 at Southend, in 1882, which he had found among his series of H. Thaumas. Mr. 

 Turner, H. lineola, taken on the Society's excursion to Leigh, and Mr. Nussey, the 

 same species from Shoeburyness. Mr. Tugwell expressed an opinion that the species 

 occurred on the salt marshes, and those taken on the hills were specimens that had 

 been blown from the marshes. Mr. South said the species was plentiful at Tancar- 

 ville, some 200 or 300 yards from the river Seine, in a limestone quarry, and where 

 there was no character of salt marshes whatever. Mr. Barker stated he had taken 

 a specimen in Sussex on the chalk. Mr. T. R. Billups, Coleoptera from Tancarville, 

 taken by Messrs. Leach and South ; a specimen of Chrysomela rutilans, Wollaston, 

 taken alive in the Borough Market, October last, and stated that the species was a 

 native of the Canary Islands, and had probably been imported with potatoes from 

 those Islands ; Glypta rubiounda, Bridg., a species of IchneumonidcB new to science, 

 bred by Mr. Elisha from Argyrolepia maritimana ; a spider's nest, from which he 

 had bred Semiteles fulvipes, Gr., the nest was taken by Mr. R. Adkin, at Leigh, 

 Essex ; a cluster of cocoons formed by Apanteles spurius, Wsm., attached to a sprig 

 of heather, and from which the species was emerging in some numbers ; also a 



