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Mr. Wellman exhibited Phoxopteryx upupana, Tr. 



Mr. Billups exhibited a curious construction which had 

 been found by Mr. J. T. Williams under a stone in his garden 

 at Foot's Cray. The formation consisted of about thirty or 

 forty fusiform cocoons composed of a felt-like material, and 

 arranged side by side, vertically and transversely, the whole 

 forming a pear-shaped mass ; each cocoon contained a larva 

 which Mr. Billups said was certainly not Dipterous, nor Hy- 

 menopterous, but might probably be the larva of a species of 

 Lepidoptera. 



Several members concurred in this opinion. 



Mr. A. E. Cook exhibited Moloch horridus, Gray, a species 

 of Agamidce from South Australia, and a living specimen of 

 the Green Snake, Natrix torquata, Ray, taken at Sevenoaks. 



MAY 6tk, 1886. 



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



Mr. G. Elisha exhibited a bred series of Antispila 

 pfeifferella, Hb. Sta., with specimens of the mined leaves and 

 the pupae cases cut out from the same, and said there was a 

 statement by Mr. C. Healy in one of the early volumes of the 

 "Entomologist" (Vol. II., p. 129) that the larvae pupated 

 under the surface of the earth. Now he (Mr. Elisha) had 

 bred a large number of the insects, and he found they 

 invariably took their cases in between the decaying 

 leaves, and not under the surface of the earth, as stated by 

 Mr. Healy. 



Mr. Wellman exhibited Adela cuprella, Thnb. Sta., from 

 Wimbledon Common. 



Mr. R. Adkin exhibited a series of Endromis versicolor, 

 L., bred from larvae reared in 1884; and he mentioned that 

 from these larvae nine moths emerged in 1885 ; one male and 

 eight females ; whereas the twelve that appeared this year 

 were all males. 



Mr. Step exhibited a specimen of Morchella esculenta, 



