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Mr. W. West (Greenwich), exhibited a long series of a 

 species of Coleoptera, belonging to the genus Buprestidia, 

 taken at Suakim. 



Mr. Step exhibited living specimens of the edible snail, 

 Helix pomatia, L M from Ran more, Surrey. 



JULY ut, 1886. 



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



Mr. South exhibited a specimen of Melanippe fluctuate 

 L., of a cream colour, the markings being reduced to almost 

 vanishing point ; this variety was taken on a fence in the 

 neighbourhood of St. John's Wood. 



Mr. Wellman exhibited Thecla rubi, L., and called 

 attention to the absence of the white spots from the under- 

 side of one specimen ; a long series of Eupithecia rectangulata, 

 L., comprising a light grey variety and several specimens 

 of the var. nigrosericeata, Haw. ; and a long series of Aciptilia 

 galactodactyla, Hb., from larvae taken at Horsley, Surrey. 



Mr. Sheldon exhibited Dianthacia nana, Rott, from Deal, 

 and Phoxopteryx derasana, Hb., from Riddlesdown, Croydon. 



Mr. T. R. Billups exhibited two living larvae of Boarmia 

 repandata, L., received from Mr. South, and which showed a 

 curious arrangement of the cocoons of a species of Micro- 

 gaster ; Mr. South stated the larvae spun a little pad of silk, 

 then bent themselves into a bow on the twig, and the para- 

 sites began to creep out of the host and formed their cocoons 

 under the arch. 



Mr. Sheldon exhibited an egg of the cuckoo {Cuculus 

 canorus, L.), found by him at Shirley Heath, Surrey, on the 

 26th June last, in the nest of a Meadow Pipit (Anthus pra- 

 tensis, L.). 



Mr. W. A. Pearce exhibited a coloured drawing of the 

 Fly Orchis (Ophrys muscifera, Huds,), taken at Ranmore, on 

 the occasion of the Society's excursion to Bookham. 



