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Miana strigilis. —Mr. May exhibited a short series of this species 
of an unicolorous dark brown, from Sandown. The specimens were 
quite distinct from the form aethiops of the London district. 
Hawthorn in leaf.— Mr. Jennings remarked that he had seen a 
hawthorn in leaf at Edmonton already, it being the first week in 
February. 
Mollusca. —Mr. Jennings read an interesting paper on “ Mollusca.” 
Mr. Bacot, in proposing a vote of thanks, made some interesting 
remarks about pearls. Mr. H. H. May asked how long Mollusca were 
in coming to maturity, and how long they lived. Mr. PI. Heasler 
inquired how the colouring matter of the shells was formed. Mr. 
Donisthorpe called attention to the fact that Lampyns noctiluca, Dnlus 
flarescens and Phusphacnu x hemipterus fed on certain species of snails, 
the females of the two latter being about the rarest of British beetles. 
He also pointed out that the larva of the glow-worm (Lctmpyns 
noctiluca) has an instrument at the apex of the abdomen for cleaning 
itself, and removing the slime from its body after devouring a snail. 
Feb. 21st, 1899.—Mr. I>. E. Figgis, of 99, Forburg Road, 
Clapton, was elected a member. 
Exhibits. — Mr. C. Oldham, a series each of Comia difiiim and 
O. ajfinix, taken in Epping Forest in the summer of 1898, and four 
i'Aichclia jacobacac from Mid-Norfolk. The President remarked on the 
fact that < difli-nn could still be found in Epping Forest, and elicited 
the statements from the Revs. G. H. Raynor and C. R. N. Burrows, 
that it swarms at Maldon and Mucking. 
Gonopteryx ehamni ab. — Mr. J. A. Clark showed a specimen of 
this species captured at Croydon in the autumn of last year (1898), the 
two forewings having the coloration of a 2 and the hindwings that of 
a $ . Mr. Riches, a number of the carnivorous shelled-slug, Testa- 
cella halioclitca, from Hornsey. Mr. A. Bacot, a box of South African 
Lepidoptera, from a station nine miles from Johannesburg. Of these 
Mr. Tutt observed there were many which appeared identical with 
British insects, such as Sphinx convolvuli (though smaller than our 
insect), a large sized Lithosia complana, also two were Lapln/yuia 
exiyua and Heliothis armiyera. 
Spilosoma lubricipeda, etc.- —Rev. G. H. Raynor, about 800 speci- 
mensof S. lubricipeda, the produce of wild larvae obtained from the Lin¬ 
colnshire coast. Larvae sent him from this district in 1898, being obtained 
late in the season, were ichnemnoned, but from some taken in August, 
1894, about 50 were bred. Four years’ breeding resulted in the num¬ 
bers exhibited, but he had been unable to spare time to keeping the 
broods distinct, and to working out statistics of typical and varietal 
forms. Many of the dark radiata aberrations were remarkable, but he 
had not got representatives of all the Yorkshire forms. He also 
exhibited an Kjrincphcle. tithonus $ , caught at Hazeleigh, near Maldon, 
last August, in which the rust-red colour is replaced by light yellow, 
and one Noctua rubi ah. taken at same locality and month. A male 
Anyerona prunana, of an unusual unicolorous brown tint, with a spot 
only of orange on disc of each wing, was exhibited, together with some 
very variable forms of 3 and $ obtained by pairing this insect with 
a typical 2 . 
Queensland beetles.- — Mr. F. B. Jennings, specimens of Cyproea 
