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Mr. South also exhibited a long series of Aphomia 

 sociella, L., and with reference thereto stated that some of the 

 specimens shown were bred from the portion of the cluster of 

 cocoons found by Mr. Williams in his garden at Foot's Cray, 

 which was exhibited at the meeting on the 15th April last; 

 while the others were bred from a bundle of sticks from Dart- 

 ford, so closely spun together by the larvae that it required 

 some force to separate them (the bundle of sticks was ex- 

 hibited). He was of opinion that the cluster of cocoons found 

 by Mr. Williams was the natural mode of pupation of the 

 species; and the pupation among the sticks, a modification 

 of this natural habit induced by the nature of the material the 

 larva had to deal with in confinement. From the bundle 

 of sticks he had bred ninety-six specimens, while from the small 

 piece of the cluster found by Mr. Williams (which he also ex- 

 hibited), he had bred twenty-one ; and there were probably 

 many more to emerge, as one had come out on his way to 

 the meeting. 



Several members contributed remarks on this species. 



Mr. R. Adkin exhibited living larvae of Notodonta trepida, 

 Esp., reared from ova deposited by a female of this species 

 taken on May 22nd, 1886, at rest on an oak trunk at Seal 

 Chart, Kent. 



The Secretary read a letter from Mr. Perkins of Wotton- 

 under-Edge recording the probable capture by his nephew, 

 of Sesia andreniformis ', Lasp., at that place. 



With reference to this insect, Mr. Carrington said it 

 was one of the rarest of the British Sesiidce. He had heard 

 that in Germany it had been taken very freely by searching 

 the flowers of the privet in July, and he determined to try 

 and take it in the same way in England. He accordingly 

 went to one of its old localities, near Gravesend, and 

 searched for about an hour the only time the sun was 

 visible, and during that period he saw one which he unfor- 

 tunately failed to capture. He had very little doubt that 



