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Moore, two varieties of Abracas grossulariata. Mr. Tugwell on behalf of Mr. G. T. 

 Porritt, larvae of Eupithecia extensaria, on substituted food Artemesia abrotanum. Mr. 

 Tugwell also exhibited a box of Archa caja, of which he stated he had bred some 

 hundreds this season and only obtained one variety the wings of which did not ex- 

 pand. Mr. Hawes, living larvae of Argynnis selene and A. euphrosyne, which were about 

 to hibernate. Mr. Jenner Weir, living Physche villesella, and drew attention to the 

 different kinds of material from which the cases had been constructed, one singular 

 case was formed entirely from pieces of rush each about one quarter of an inch in 

 length and although he had had this specimen about two months it appeared not to 

 have added to its case, most of the cases had been commenced with the fragments of 

 grass and heather afterwards used, he also showed one larvae from which he had re- 

 moved the entire case and had supplied it with strips of coloured paper from which 

 in a few days it had formed a new habitation, the coloured paper had also been used 

 by another specimen which had not been deprived of its case. During the last two 

 months most of the specimens had doubled the length of their cases, the case was 

 always made from the feeding or proximal end and never from the distal end, from 

 which latter the imago emerged In one instance where he had made the experiment 

 of cutting off the distal end, the larva being unable to repair the breach forsook the 

 case and made another habitation. Mr. Bouttell exhibited a pale form of Zygcena 

 filipendulce , from Leigh, Essex ; Hesperia lineola taken at Southend in 18S2, which he 

 had discovered in his series of H. Unea. Mr. Turner, H. lineola taken on the Society's 

 Excursion to Leigh, and Mr. Nassey the same species including a very p.-iie example 

 from Shoeburyness. Mr. Tugwell expressed an opinion that the species occurred on 

 the salt marshes and those taken on the hills were specimens blown from there. Mr. 

 South said that the species was plentiful at Tancarville some two or three hundred 

 yards from the river Seine in a limestone quarry and there was no character of salt 

 marshes whatever. Mr. Barker said he had this year taken a specimen in Sussex on 

 the chalk, Mr. T. R. Billups, coleoptera from Tancarville taken by Messrs. Leach 

 and South ; a specimen of Chrysomelida ruffians , taken alive in the Boro' Market, 

 October last, and stated that the species was a native of the Canary Islands, and had 

 probably been imported with potatoes from these Islands, 



Glyptce rubicunda, Bridg., a species of Ichneumonidae, new to science, bred by.Mr, 

 Elisha from a larvae of Argyrolepia maritimana ; a spiders nest from which he had 

 bred Hemiteles fulvipes, the nest was taken by Mr. R. Adkin, at Leigh, Essex ; a 

 cluster of cocoons formed by Apanteles spurius, attached to a sprig of heather and 

 ^rom which the living insects were emerging in some numbers; also a specimen of the 

 Wild Rose Bedeguar gall and its maker Rhodites roses with one of its parasites, 

 Calimome bedeguario. Mr. Cockerell, larvae of Eriocampce cerasi, feeding on leaves of 

 pear received from Banstead where they were doing considerable damage, Hellibore 

 was recommended as a remedy. Mr. Cockerell said the species was common in 

 America as well as in this Country. Mr. C. A. Briggs, specimens of Cicada montana. 

 Mr. Parks a specimen of Bagons tempestivins, from Leigh, Essex. Mr. B. W. Adkin- 

 a spray of Oak Leaves almost entirely covered with the galls of Nenroterus fumipennis. 

 Mr. Billups, Helix incarnata, and a white variety, Succinea pulrus, and the variety 

 limnoidea. Mr. Cockerell then read a list of animals and plants observed in the 



