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same locality. He stated that the occurrence of this species at Barking 
was strange, the locality given by Fowler being the Isle of Wight. 
Mr. Riches announced that he had bred during the season a series of 
Smerinthus ocellatus, which had spent two winters in the pupa. Dr. 
Buckell then read the records of “ Sphingidge ” that he had received 
for the Society’s London Fauna List, to which the members present 
made many interesting additions. 
August 1st, 1893.—Exhibits :—Dr. Buckell: a copy of the first 
edition of Doubleday’s List of British Lepidoptera, bearing date 1850; 
this copy was kindly lent for exhibition purposes by Mr. J. E. Robson. 
Mr. Smith: examples of Macroglossa fuciformis and M. bombyliformis 
from the New Forest. Mr. Gates : Batrachcedra prceangusta, Piety op- 
teryx contaminana and Halonota brunnichiana from Hammersmith. Dr. 
Sequeira : series of Geometra vernaria, Nemoria viridata and Pseudoterpma 
pruinata (cytisaria) from the New Forest; also dwarfed specimens 
(mostly bred) of Theda betulce, Notodonta ziezac, Dicranura furcula, 
Amphipyra pyramidea and Catocala sponsa. Mr. Nicholson : an abnor¬ 
mally large 2 specimen of Ocneria dispar, bred this season; also a 
very fine var. of Smerinthus tilice, which had been bred by a friend ; 
the insect was of the reddish form, but showed no traces of the broad 
central band. Mr. Riches: a fine batch of full-fed larvge of Smerinthus 
tilice; also examples of the leaves of the side-saddle flower 
(Sarracenia), and both flowers and leaves of the pitcher plant 
(Nepenthes). Mr. Riches expressed his doubt as to the reported carni¬ 
vorous propensities of Nepenthes, but upon reference it was found that 
these propensities have been attributed to the genus on no less authority 
than that of Sir J. D. Hooker, who, in his address to the British 
Association at the Belfast meeting in 1874, recorded many experiments, 
shewing that the acid juice secreted at the base of the pitcher is indeed 
capable of digesting meat and other nitrogenous matter. Mr. Battley 
exhibited a fine series of Zygcena trifolii from Broxbourne, the variation 
ranging from the type to the confluens form. Captain Thompson : a very 
fine series of Tapinostola elyrni bred from pupae from Hornsea, on the 
S.E. coast of Yorkshire. Captain Thompson stated that in the hope of 
emulating Mr. Porritt’s success in taking this species at Cleethorpes, he 
had requested his friend, Mr. P. Inelibald, who resides at Hornsea, on 
the other side of the Humber estuary, about 25 miles north of Spurn 
Point, to look out for the food plant of the species, viz., the Ljune 
grass ( Elymus arenarius). In May, Mr. Inchbald reported that he had 
not found the Elymus, but that the marram (Ammophila arundinacea ), a 
species similar, though not allied to Elymus was common on their 
coast. During the same month, however, Captain Thompson received 
a number of pujDse of T. elyrni from Mr. Inchbald; these had been 
found by that gentleman and his sister, Miss Inchbald, whilst working 
what was thought to be Ammophila, but was in reality the Elymus 
growing side by side with it on the sandhills, in hopes of obtaining 
Leucania littoralis. The fact was that Elymus arenarius occurred in 
some plenty on the Hornsea sandhills, but that the species is difficult 
to separate from A. arundinacea except by its inflorescence, and so had 
been overlooked. Mr. Heasler exhibited a strange var. of Philonthus 
sphndidnlus from Beckenham ; the curious point about the insect being 
the absence of the dorsal series of punctures on each side of the thorax, 
which are so characteristic of the genus. 
