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stotiea, differing from the latter mainly in the great development of 
the reddish fulvous areas. The C'romlyn male must, I think, be 
looked upon as an aberrant specimen of the same race.” 
January 7th, 1896.—Exhibits:—Mr. Prout: Continental types of 
species and varieties of the Caradrina quadripunctata group, viz.: C. xelini 
(Germany); var. anceps (Syria) ; C. menetriesii (Siberia); C. albina 
(Russia), and C. infuxca (Central France). With the exception of the 
typical ( '. xelini, all the specimens bore a very great resemblance to some 
of the forms of C. quadripunctata. Mr. Bate : a very dark specimen 
of Luperina textacea from Dulwich. Mr. Sauze: Melanostoma 
quadnmaculatum (Sydenham, March, 1895), and Oxycera trilineata 
(Deal, July, 1895) amongst other Diptera. Mr. E. Heasler: 4 $ 
Selidoxema ericetaria, Pxeudoteipna pruinata (three specimens, unusually 
green, considering that they had been captured) ; two extreme forms 
of (inophox obxcurata (deep black and ash-grey, respectively), and 
Acidalia straminata, one of which had a distinct dark band, generally 
considered to be the distinguishing mark of A. circellata; all from 
the New Forest. Mr. Frost: two Enodia hyperanthus, with xanthic 
blotches; a very dark Hadena dissimilis var. confluenx, closely 
resembling the dark purplish forms of H. oleracea , and a short series 
of Noctua ylareosa ; all from Ipswich. 
January 21st, 1896.—Exhibits:—Rev. C. R. N. Burrows: a 
long and variable series of Calamia lutoxa taken at Rainham during 
the past year, and photographic enlargements of some of the specimens 
showing special characters, to which he referred in a paper which he 
read on the species. Messrs. Bate, Heasler, Prout and Tutt, also 
exhibited C. lutoxa from various localities. 
Mr. Tutt exhibited on behalf of Miss Elizabeth Miller, Spring 
Villa, Coval Road, Chelmsford, a cluster of cocoons of Aphomia sociella, 
and read the following notes from her :— On a cluster of cocoons of 
Aphomia sociella. —“ In October, 1894, a man working for us, 
whilst removing a quantity of wood from a corner of the garden, 
found what he thought was the nest of a mouse. He tried to open it, 
and, partly succeeding, discovered that it contained a number of 
caterpillars about halFan-inch long, and of a bright yellow colour. 
He gave it to my father, and we put it in a box in an outhouse 
without damping it the whole of the time it was in our possession. 
We kept it until May, 1895, when a large number of moths 
emerged from it, of which we only kept nine. The moth turned 
out to be Aphomia sociella. When found the cluster was covered 
with the heads, thoraces, and wings of Humble-bees. It was 
placed under the wood, which was on a grassy part of the garden, in 
a little excavation in the ground, apparently lined with dead grass 
mixed with leaves and some woolly substance. It was our first idea 
that it was a bee’s nest, and we are quite sure that it was some kind 
of nest before the moth took possession of it. We see that in the 
Entom. Record, vol. vi., pp. 76-77, Mr. W. P. Blackburne-Maze 
describes and gives a plate of a similar nest, but throws some little 
doubt as to the larvae feeding in the nests of Humble bees, and 
suggests that, in the instance he records at least, the larvae probably 
