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— ''^Cidaria miata. A few seen in most years. — -I'C. corylata. A few. — 

 'I'C. tnmcata. Fairly common. — '>'C. siiffmnata. A few. — G. prunata. 

 A single specimen. — -^'C./ulvata. A few. — "i^C dotata. Fairly common. — 

 Eubolia Umitata, E. plumbaria. A few of each. — -^E. hipunctaria. 

 Common on the chalk. — Anaitis plagiata. Fairly common. 



I can say but little in reference to the local variation exhibited, as 

 the material at hand (in very many cases only two or three odd specimens) 

 is very limited. The foregoing list of 211 species can only represent a 

 small portion (in all probability much less than half) of the total number to 

 be found in the district. Although it includes but few species that are 

 either local or rare, there is not the least doubt that many rarities would 

 reward an energetic collector with plenty of the ever-needful time at his 

 disposal, which last, however, I fear, must be counted among the desiderata 

 of most entomologists. There are, most likely, numerous records to be 

 found in the very voluminous literature of past years to which I have not 

 access ; but Xylina zinckenii (Newman, * British Moths,' p. 428), and 

 Plusia moneta (Entom. xxiv. 194 ; xxvii. 246), are enough to show that 

 species of considerable rarity and interest (apart from the mere collector's 

 point of view) have been, and are, taken in the district so imperfectly 

 covered by this article. — W. Grover; Guildford, Nov. 1895. 



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Entomological Society of London. — May 6th, 1896. — Professor 

 Raphael Meldola, F.R.S., President, in the chair. Mr. Percy Evans 

 Freke, of Step House, Borris, Co. Carlow, Ireland, was elected a 

 Fellow of the Society. Mr. Champion exhibited specimens of Amara 

 famelica, Zimm., from Woking, Surrey, a recent addition to the British 

 list. He also exhibited, on behalf of Mr. Dolby-Tyler, a series of 

 Eburia quadrinotata, Latr., from Guayaquil, Ecuador, showing 

 variation in the number of the raised ivory-white lines on the elytra, 

 there being sometimes an additional mark exterior to the short basal 

 line, and sometimes an additional one on the inner side of the second 

 line. Mr. Gahan said he did not notice anything remarkable in the 

 specimens, except in the arrangement of the spots. Mr. Horace 

 Donisthorpe exhibited a specimen of Pterostichus gracilis, with three 

 tarsi on one leg, taken near Weymouth last month. Mr. G. T. 

 Porritt exhibited a series of Arctia menthastri which he had just bred 

 from Morayshire ova ; the ground colour of the specimens varied from 

 the usual white, through shades of yellow, and dark smoky-brown. 

 Mr. Merrifield exhibited specimens of Gonepteryx rhamni, bred from 

 larvae found in North Italy and Germany, the pupae of which had 

 been subjected to various temperatures. He said that high temperature 

 appeared to cause an increase of yellow scales in the female, and low 

 temperatures generally reduced the size of the orange discal spot on 

 the fore wings of both sexes. He also exhibited some bred specimens 

 of species of Variessa, the result of experiments tried with a view to 

 ascertain the extreme of high temperature that the pupae would bear, 

 and its results. The species exhibited included Vanessa atalanta, 

 F, urticcB, and F. antiopa. Mr, Merrifield said that the effects on the 



