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as the sun came out, the male responded to this by frantic waving of antennae and 

 approaches to the female. It took two days before a pairing occurred and they only 

 remained in copula for between one and two hours. The female began laying mostly 

 on the dorsum of the leaves, close to the midrib, some were also laid on the stem 

 of the inflorescence. Only two larvae were observed to hatch although many of the 

 other ova had clearly hatched, probably unobserved overnight. These two crawled 

 down to the base of the plant and vanished, hopefully into the rootstock. There is 

 at present no evidence of the presence of the larvae in the now overwintering rootstock 

 of the dock. Only time will determine the success of this project. 



Cooper, K. — A selection of colour prints, mainly 12" x 16". The following three 

 prints were from Kodachrome slides taken in Lanzarote. Diachrysia orichalcea (F.), 

 the slender burnished brass, Hyles lineata {¥.), the striped hawk-moth and Coitus 

 croceus (Geoff.). The remainder were taken at Abbeywood House, Nottinghamshire. 

 Hypsopygia costalis (F.), Dioryctria mutatella (Fuchs), Orthopygia glaucinalis (L.), 

 Lozotaeniodes formosanus (Gey.), Pandemis corylana (F.), Crambus lathoniellus 

 (Zinck), Agriphila tristella (D.&S.), Agriphila inquinatella (D.&S.), Rhyacionia 

 pinicolana (Doubl.), Catoptria pinella (L.), Udea ferrugalis (Hubn.), and Platyptilia 

 gonodactyla (D.&S.). 



Jones, R. A. — Various photographs and accompanying text. An aberration of the 

 comma butterfly, Polygonia c-album (L.), in which the white comma mark was 

 developed into the shape of a 'p'. The pupa of the tortoise beetle Cassida viridis L., 

 allegedly showing its resemblance to a lace-wing. Ants, Lasius niger (L.), apparently 

 feeding directly on plant sap oozing from the damaged leaves of the garden plant 

 Ligularia dentata (Gray) Hara. The ribwort plantain Plantago lanceolata L. which 

 had somehow been induced to form bilobed inflorescences. A congregation of 

 unidentified creatures which might be insect larvae, resembling flattened millipedes, 

 found under a rotten log in Guatemala, Central America. 



Lewington, R. — Original paintings from forthcoming books on Lepidoptera; The 

 moths and butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland (MBGBI) Vol. 3 plate 

 2 — Yponomeutinae, Harley Books, 1994; MBGBI Vol. 3 — larval cases of 

 Coleophoridae, C. lixella Zell., C. albidella (D.&S.), C. bernoulliella Goeze, C. 

 currucipennella Zell. and C. ibipennella Zell.; The butterflies of the West Indies and 

 South Florida, Plate 1—Nymphalidae, OUP, 1994; A field guide to the butterflies 

 of Britain and Europe, plate 16 — Pieridae, Colias libanotica, C. balcanica and C. 

 myrmidone, Collins 1995. 



Morris, R.— Two boards presenting details of progress on the Surrey Hoverfly 

 Scheme, including tetrad maps of Cheilosia nigripes (Meig.), C. soror (Zett.), and 

 Episyrphus balteatus (Deg.). 



Porter, J., Skinner, B., Collins, G. & Church, S. H.— The provisional text 

 pages and type of plates to be used in the hopefully forthcoming publication of an 

 illustrated guide to the caterpillars of the British Isles, supported by photographs of 

 over 840 different larvae that will be used in the book. A series of views of the triangle 

 moth, Heterogenea asella (D.&S.) larva, with notes on its life-cycle. 



Revels, R.— A selection of photographs of British butterflies and other wild life 

 from the extensive library of this well known wild life photographer. 



Uffen, R. W. J.— Photographs of Metriotes lutarea (Haw.) on a flower of its 

 foodplant, Stellaria holostea L. and of larvae with their cases consisting of empty 

 seedheads, from Belhus Wood, Aveley, Essex. Cases appeared 10/ 15. vi. 1993. 



Walker, D. H.— Entitled "The fight for survival", a photograph of the breeding 

 ground in Saudi Arabia of the hawk-billed turtle, Eretmocheyls imbricata. Another 

 photograph showed an oil refinery. The female turtle lays up to 500 eggs in the sand 



