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ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION. 
During the summer excursions were taken by the Section to Brockley, 
Portbury, and Brean Down near Weston-super-Mare.- 
At the November meeting of the Section Mr, J. W. Clarke exhibited a 
fine specimem of Vanessa Antiopa, (the Camberwell Beauty Butterfly) 
captured on Durdham Down in September, and an interesting discussion 
arose respecting the different appearances of this fine species in the United 
Kingdom. 
A number of interesting exhibitions were also made including Nola 
Abulalis, D. rubiginea, P. monticolana, and Incurvaria pectinicornis . . 
At the December meeting, Mr. Griffiths exhibited several boxes containing 
European and Exotic Lepidoptera including some interesting species. 
Mr. Hudd exhibited the rare Pachetra leucophea W. V, captured near 
Ashf ord, Kent, and Toxocampa Craccoe a fine pair taken in South Devon 
in 1871. 
j The Hon. Sec. then read some notes on the genus Eupithecia with more 
special reference to the thirty-two species that had been met with in the 
Bristol District, and exhibited a box containing forty-five of the forty-seven 
species that have been met with in the United Kingdom. 
