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of this species. In the west of France it was quite common 

 in some districts, the larvae being found on the small bind- 

 weed (Convolvulus arvensis, L.), growing amongst corn, as 

 many as forty or fifty sometimes being taken in one search. 



Mr. J. T. Williams also exhibited a dwarfed specimen of 

 Drepana binaria, Hum., and said that the larva from which 

 this specimen was bred, he obtained by beating in the New 

 Forest ; it immediately pupated. He attributed the smallness 

 of this specimen and the number of dwarfs of different species 

 he had met with during the season, to the dryness of the 

 atmosphere and consequent dryness of the food-plants. 



Messrs. Billups, Wellman, Carrington, and others con- 

 curred with Mr. Williams as to the cause of these dwarfed 

 examples. 



Mr. W. G. Sheldon exhibited long series of Agrotis 

 agathina, Dup., and Noctua castanea, Esp., and var. neglecta, 

 Hb., taken at Shirley on the flowers of heather, and remarked 

 that A. agathina had occurred more freely this season than of 

 late years, although he had only managed to obtain four larvae 

 in four nights searching. 



Mr. J. T. Williams said this was a strange fact, as at one 

 time in the same locality the larvae were so common that it 

 was easy to get upwards of a hundred of them in an hour. 



Mr. E. Joy exhibited two melanic varieties of Vanessa 

 urticcSy L., bred from larvae found at Folkestone, one being 

 normal on the left and melanic on the right side. 



Dr. Rendall exhibited Lobophora halterala, Hufn., from 

 Hounslow. 



Mr. H. T. Dobson exhibited Emmelesia albulata, SchirT, 

 var. thtiles, Weir, and a number of tortrices from the Shetland 

 Isles. 



Mr. J. T. Carrington exhibited a cocoon of Dicranura 

 vinula, L., formed among cotton wool. 



Mr. West (Greenwich) exhibited Rhantus pulverosus, 

 Step., R. notatus, Berg., the red form of Agabus bipustulatus, 

 L., A. consperus, Marsh, Philonthus punctus y Gr., all taken on 

 the marshes near the river, at Erith, Kent. 



Mr. J. T. Carrington exhibited specimens of the Hessian 



