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Day, a number of local Coleoptera including 

 Cychrus rostroMis and Carahus gramdatus, both 

 found under a rotten log; Homalota circallo.ris, 

 Bembidium monticola, Melanotus rufi'pes. Mr. Jas. 

 Murray, the four Cumberland species of Ansapis, 

 viz.: — A. frontalis, A. ruficollis, A.fasciata and A. 

 melanopa. Mr. J. E. Thwaytes commvmicated a 

 paper on " Lepidoptera taken in 1898," and Mr. 

 F. H. Day read "Kotes on the species of Six-spot 

 burnet-moths (^?it7i?-ocera)occurringnear Carlisle." 

 James Murray, Hon. Sec, 11, Close St. 



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Waiton-on-the-HiU. W. Whitaker, B.A., F.E.S., 



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 Hford. 

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London Natural History Societt. 



•t" My Trip to the Cariboos." W. S. Sebright 

 Green, F.E.C.I. 

 May 4. — t" Comets and Meteors." C. Nicholson, F.E.S. 

 ,, 18. — t" Notes on Tour in Swiss Alps." C. B. Smith. 

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Preston Scientific Society. 



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Selborne Society — Croydon and Norwood Branch. 



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 mostraca." Mr. Scourfield, F.E.M.S. 

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 11.— tLantem Demonstration. J. W. Tutt, F.E.S. 

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 1899. 

 April 4. — t" Crossing of Lasiocawpa quercus and its vars." 

 E. Bacot. 

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