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As to the time of clay at which they emerged, I have only my memory 
to rely upon. Some were out expanding their wings from 8 to 9 a.m., 
others were later in the day, after I had started for the City. 
July 7th, 1896.—Exhibits.—Mr. Bacot: a larva in its third skin, 
being one of a brood hatched from eggs resulting from a pairing 
of a $ Smerinthus ocellatus and a 2 S. populi. When very 
young, the larvce strongly resembled S. ocellatus in the corresponding 
stage ; but at present they were much closer to S', populi ; they, 
however, resembled S. ocellatus in the fact that the first oblique 
stripe was not more conspicuous than the others. Dr. Sequeira : 
Anticlea sinuata (2), Phibalapteryx liynata, Meliana flammed, Plusia 
festucae (and its ichneumon), Macrogcister castaneae (<?), Papilio 
machaon, with the linear black mark at the apex (lower end) of dis- 
coidal cell with a yellow centre, Nascia cilialis, and other species 
taken at Wicken Fen during the first week in June. Mr. Prout : a 
variable series of Dyschorista suspecta, bred from a mottled femalo 
taken at Wimbledon. Mr. Bate : Cymatophora duplaris from 
Dulwich, taken last June. Mr. E. Heasler: Acronicta leporina, 
Mania orion, Plusia pulchrina, from the New Forest, at Whitsun¬ 
tide, and Mr. S. J. Bell: Nola strigula and Triaena psi from the 
same locality. 
July 21st, 1896.—Exhibits :—Mr. Sauze : insects from the 
neighbourhood of Deal, consisting principally of Tortricides, 
but including (Jallimorpha dommula, Bryophila perla, Liparis 
salicis, Melanargia yalatea, and Cupido minima. Mr. Riches: 
Series of Sesia myopaeformis from his garden at Hornsey. Mr. 
Heasler: A specimen of the English Cicada ( Cicadetta monata) 
from the New Forest in June. He said he had seen this species 
in some numbers in the New Forest, and had his attention 
drawn to the insect by the whirring noise which it made. He was 
quite unable to say how this was produced, but it was certainly not 
with the legs. Mr. Cox: A black Limmitis sibylla from the New 
Forest. Mr. Cox gave a list of his captures at Brockenhurst during 
the first week in July of this year. These numbered about 400 insects, 
including nine species of Footmen, amongst which were Lithosia 
deplana, Gnophria quadra, L.griseola and Emydia cnbrum. Other insects 
taken included Cymatophora fluctuosa, A. leporina, Tvyphaena subsequa, 
Dyschorista suspecta, Aventia fle.rula, Noctua stiymatica , Cleora ylabraria, 
&c., &c. Several melanic specimens of Limenitis sybilla were reported 
from the New Forest. Mr. Tremayne recorded Iodis vernaria from 
Westerham. lie referred to the general dearth of Lepidoptera by 
day just now, and suggested that the abnormal heat of the season 
might have caused an unusually large number of pupa 1 to dry up, as 
had been the case in his breeding cages, in spite of regular damping. 
Mr. Frost recorded the following species ( inter alia) from Old Hall, 
Ipswich -.—July 11th, at dusk: Cyanins argiolus, Hemitliea strigata, 
Hypena proboscidalis, Notodonta carmelita [note date, Ed.] ; at sugar : 
Caradrina alsines, Leucania conigera, Xylophasia scolopacina, Pharetra 
rumicis, Leucania pallens, Gonophora dcrasa; July 12th, by day: Argynnis 
aglaia, A. adippe, Eugonia polychloros, Limenitis sibylla, Apatura iris, 
Hipparchia semele, Pnodia hyperanthus, Clirysophanus pliloeas (in 
