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(wild parsley), and contributed a note on the discovery of this beetle in 
Pyrame’s Park, Edmonton, where he had found a colony of the imago 
in the summer of 1898. The larva was said to be white with a faint 
bluish tinge, and had a dark dorsal longitudinal stripe on the body. 
He also exhibited a beetle, larvae found in rotten wood at Chingford 
Ferry, but could not suggest its identity. 
Egos of Cnethocampa.— Dr. Chapman had eggs for exhibition of 
G. pitgocanipa laid round the stems of Finns pinaster, on which the 
mass of eggs resembles a bud of the pine, it was also to be found on 
Pinas aleppensis. The moth uses the large scales of its body as a 
“ thatch ” to cover the eggs, directed downwards to throw off rain and 
wet. The eggs themselves are oval in cross section, and so are 
probably “ flat ” eggs—like those of the Lasiocampids laid in a similar 
manner. Mr. Tutt said the eggs had a vertical micropylar axis, and 
if they are laid like those of Eriogastcr lanestris on each other, the moth 
should be placed amongst the Lasiocampids, and not with the Liparids, 
where American writers placed it. Mr. Bacot, who referred to some 
observations of the larva?, favoured the placing of the insect with the 
Lasiocampids. 
Sallows. —Mr. Dadd, sallowing at Wimbledon on April 26th, found 
little to reward his search. One very fresh specimen of PItlogophora 
mcticulnsa came as surprise. He regarded it as an early emergence of 
one of the spring brood. Mr. Jennings reported that he found the 
season a backward one. So far, both diptera and liymenoptera were 
very scarce in his district. Dr. Sequeira spent a short time at 
Brockenlmrst—from April 22nd-80th. Very few lepidoptera were on 
the wing. Gonepteryx rhamni were flying when the sun shone. Pieris 
napi and Pararge egeria were in good condition. All vegetation was in 
a backward state ; sallowing and sugaring were both disappointing. 
One Srnliuptcrgx libatri.v came to sugar, and a few larva? of Triphaena 
fimbria were taken at night. Dr. Chapman said he had just bred 
Taeniocampa gothica from a larva taken at Avignon ; it pupated, and 
had emerged at the time T. gothica appears here, and not at the time 
it should (August) if it remained in its true habitat. 
Cucullta scbophulariae.—M r. Tutt said that of some pupa? of 
this species, left dry for four, if not five years ago, two had lately 
emerged ; he then damped the rest and put them where they could be 
kept heated, and two more emerged. Lachneis lanestris has been 
known to go over as many as six years in pupa. With reference to 
these remarks Mr. Heasler asked if an ichneumon was known to go 
over two years. It did not appear to be known in the case of L. 
lanestris. 
Announcements were made to the effect that Mr. F. B. Jennings 
had been appointed Librarian in place of Dr. Chapman, resigned. Also 
that the Annual Congress of the South Eastern Union of Scientific 
Societies was to be held May 25th-27th, Mr. Tutt being appointed 
official delegate. That the Society’s Excursion this year would be to 
Darenth Wood, under the leadership of Mr. Cox, and that the Hackney 
and E. Middlesex Band of Hope Union, were about to hold an 
Industrial Exhibition, and asked help towards a loan exhibition. 
Paper. —Mr. Heasler read a paper on “ Secondary sexual characters 
in Coleoptera” (printed in Transactions), and exhibited $ and $? upper 
and undersides of Pgtiscus marginalia, and undersides of the following 
