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Pers., found by Mr. B. W. Adkin at Wantage, Berkshire ; 

 and said it was not by any means a common fungus in this 

 country, most of those that were eaten in England being 

 brought from the Continent. 



Mr. Carrington remarked that he once found two speci- 

 mens of this fungus at Box Hill, Surrey. 



Mr. Carrington stated that during the Easter recess he 

 had paid a visit to Selborne, the home of Gilbert White, and 

 what was most noticeable was the backwardness of the season. 

 The only lepidoptera seen were hibernated specimens of 

 Vanessa io and V. urticce, and examples of Pieris napi and 

 Dhirnia fagella ; and for four days' good work in a district 

 which, under natural circumstances was one of the best- 

 localities in which to spend an entomological holiday, he 

 thought this was a most meagre list. He mentioned that a 

 bitch otter with two young were noticed in the neighbourhood 

 of Selborne. 



MAY 20th, 1886. 

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



Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell exhibited a cluster of cocoons of 

 a species of Ichneumonidae from Constantinople. 



Mr. J. Jager exhibited Aleucis pictaria, Curt, and other 

 Lepidoptera from the New Forest. 



Mr. R. Adkin exhibited white males of Spilosoma men- 

 dica, Clerck, from the south of Ireland, about which he stated 

 he hoped to say something at a future time. 



Mr. Levett exhibited a bred series of Ligdia adustata, 

 Schiff., from larvae beaten in the neighbourhood of Shooter's 

 Hill. 



JUNE 3rd, 1886. 



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



Mr. Tugwell exhibited some interesting forms of Spilosoma 

 mentJirasti, Esp., bred from ova received from Hartlepool. 



