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^even or eight flowering plants of the autumnal squill were 
^een this autumn upon St. Vincent's Rocks. 
IX meetings were held during the year ; no papers were 
read and no excursions were taken during the summer. 
Some knowledge of the work of the Section may bo gained 
from the following. 
On February 8th, Mr. Griffiths exhibited a box of foreign 
lepidoptera, including some fine Papilios. Mr. Char bonnier 
exliibited the following: — Coloured drawings of A. lubricl- 
peda vars. Eboracii and radiata ; photographs of parasites 
of the hedgehog, tick of a tortoise, and a dipteron parasite 
on an Indian bat ; also a number of parasitic diptera and 
h^anenoptera with their hosts. 
The Hon. Sec. illustrated by preserved specimens in all 
stages the life histories of twenty-seven species of British 
lepidoptera, also the specimen of Prodenia Uttoralis bred 
from a larva found by him at Brockley Combe in 1897. This 
is the only recorded instance of this species occurring wild 
in Britain, a specimen recorded in 1891 having being bred 
from an imported tomato. 
On March 8th, Mr. Griffiths exhibited some fine silk- 
producing moths, a specimen of Gasfropliora heuricaria 
from Queensland ; and on behalf of Dr. Fisher a Mantis 
from British Guiana. 
On April 12th, Mr. Barton exhibited amongst others a 
specimen of Clcindela regcdis from Senegal, having a large 
species of tick attached to the underside of the thorax. 
J. WALTER WHITE, F.L.S. 
ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION. 
