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heritance working in accord with the surroundings of the 

 insect." 



Mr. Rose exhibited Lyccena virgaurece, L., from 

 Norway ; varieties of Boarmia repandata, L., from the Isle of 

 Wight and Ambleside ; and Nudaria mundana, L., which 

 latter species had been plentiful on walls in the Lake 

 District. 



Mr. Adkin exhibited specimens of Euchelia jacobczce, L. 

 in one of which the red markings were absent from the right 

 wing. 



Mr. Chaney exhibited the following species of Cole- 

 optera : Sphodrus leiicopthalmus, L., from Peckham ; Molytes 

 germanuS) L., Agabus nitidus, F., from Snowdon ; and Bary- 

 notus mcerens, ¥., from West Horsley. 



Mr. T. R. Billups exhibited the scarce grasshopper, Gom- 

 phoceros rufus, Ch., from Reigate ; a new locality for this species 

 of Orthoptera ; also the following species of Hemiptera : — 

 Corimelcena scarabceoides, L., and Sehirus morio, L., both from 

 Reigate. Mr. Billups stated that neither had hitherto been 

 recorded from this locality, Messrs. Saunders, Douglas, and 

 Scott giving London districts only for *S. morio ; and Purley 

 Downs, Gloucester, Mickleham, and the sand hills near 

 Burnham, for C. scarabceoides. 



Mr. Billups also exhibited three distinct groups of 

 miniature cocoons produced from larvae mining the leaves of 

 a plant of Columbine (Aquilegia vulgaris), growing in his 

 garden at Peckham, and which, he stated, were most 

 probably dipterous, or some species of Chalcid parasitic on 

 the miner. 



Mr. Billups then called attention to a note in the current 

 number of " Science Gossip," recording the occurrence of a 

 large flight of butterflies at Salzburg, Austria ; and a short 

 discussion took place as to this and similar flights which have 

 been noticed from time to time, in which Messrs. Carrington, 

 South, Williams, Adkin, and others, took part. 



