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imported in the larval state from Spain amongst some tomatoes. Two new 

 members were proposed and the following donations made. Two specimens 

 of E. auiumnaria from Mr. Hussell ; one B. asinalis from Mr. Thornthwaite, 

 and a pair of forceps from Mr. Clark. Several specimens of 8. convolvuli 

 were recorded and also a specimen of C. celeriso from Blackfriars Bridge. — 

 Eunest Anderson, Secretary. 



OUR LONDON LETTER. 



The good prospects mentioned in my last have been considerable marred by 

 the wet weather which has intervened, putting a stop to the anticipations of 

 an "Indian Summer" and Colias edusa. Little has been done here lately, 

 and the autumnal larvae seem to have suffered very much, being few in 

 number and very backward. With fine weather, however, we still hope for a 

 little good beating in this district. As if to compensate for our disappoint- 

 ment regarding C. edusa, S. convolvuli has appeared in considerable numbers, 

 one gentleman alone having taken over twenty ; and records keep coming in 

 of solitary specimens captured in all manner of strange situations, chiefly by 

 persons unacquainted with the prize they have come across. 

 London, 21st September. 



NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 



Note on Coccyx Einitimana. — I have recently gone over the whole of 

 the captures of lepidoptera made by E. K. Curzon, Esq., during the summer 

 of 1885, at " Hoy," one of the Orkney Isles, and shall later on send my ob- 

 servations thereon. These remarks may or may not tend to dispel the 

 illusion which speculative writers seem imbued with, as to what they call 

 northern insects being always darker than what they call southern forms, but 

 my present object is to treat of the peculiar manner in which C.finitimana 

 feeds ; and I leave the other items for future " matter " for the Young Nat- 

 uralist. Of C. finitimana } a fine series was bred and set, the larva mines 

 the terminal leaves of Arctost'vphjlos uva-ursi (which grows high up upon 

 the hills), just mining one leaf, making it appear bladder-like, then attaching 

 the edge of the mined leaf, to the edge of the unmined leaf next on the stem, it 

 eats into it, living in both leaves until it has eaten room in its new home to 

 live in ; the old leaf is then deserted. Whilst the excavation is going on, 

 another or other leaves are growing above the mined one, and they are ex- 



