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times fences; while Strangalia is met with on umbelliferous 

 flowers and is generally distributed." 



Mr. West (Streatham) exhibited a Coleopteron found 

 at one of Messrs. Protheroe & Morris's sales of bulbs. Mr. 

 Billups said it was a beautiful species of the genus Cionus, 

 doubtless from Central America, and had probably been 

 packed with the bulbs sent for sale. 



FEBRUARY i%th, 1886. 



R. Adkin, Esq., F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Tugwell exhibited specimens of the probably new 

 species of Crambidce, together with allied species of the same 

 genus, viz. : Crambus inquinatellus, Schiff., and C. contaminellus, 

 Hb., from Lancashire. Mr. Tugwell said he first took it at 

 Deal in 1877, — he believed the time of appearance was 

 July and August, and he referred to an article by Mr. Tutt in 

 last month's " Entomologist " on this Crambus. Mr. Adkin 

 also exhibited an example of this moth, taken in July, 1882, 

 at Deal, and for the purpose of comparison, specimens of C. 

 inquinatellus, C. geniculeus, Haw., and C. contaminellus, Hb., 

 from Preston j and said Mr. Tutt had taken the species in 

 question in some numbers at Deal, Mr. Coverdale had found 

 it at Shoeburyness, and it was believed to have been taken at 

 Brandon in Suffolk. It had been suggested that the species 

 was C. poliellus, Tr. 



Mr. Rose exhibited comparative series of Bryophila perla, 

 Fb., from Lea Bridge and Eastbourne ; Boarmia repandata, 

 L., which he stated to be the typical form found in the Black 

 Woods at Rannoch ; and a variety of Acidalia emarginata, L., 

 taken at Heme Bay. Mr. Tugwell, referring to this variety, 

 said he did not think it was an unusual form of the species, as 

 he had bred several of a like character. Mr. Carrington said 

 the specimens of B. repandata were the Rannoch form of the 

 species, which was quite distinct from any of the southern 

 forms. 



