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collection had realised about £500, of which about £170 represented 
the amount realised by the “ Micros ” ; some of the lots of the latter 
reached £5. 
June 18th, 1895.—Exhibits:-—Mr. Battley: a specimen of 
Taeniocampa opima, taken on a lamp at Clapton, about May 10th. 
Captain Thompson : specimens of Amphidasys betularia var. double- 
day aria, bred from Halifax eggs, all of which produced the black form. 
Mr. Richardson : Scoria lineafa (decdbata ) ; males of Agrotis cinerea, 
and some fine examples of Pachetra leucophaea, all from Wye, Kent. 
Mr. Prout reported that he had bred a specimen of Noctua ditrapezium, 
from a larva taken at Hampstead, in the spring. Mr. Oldham, and 
Rev. C. R. N. Burrows both recorded the capture of Agrotis suffusa, 
and A. put a, quite recently, and the latter gentleman stated that the 
case of Epichnnptenjr. reticella exhibited by him, on May 21st, had 
produced a male imago. 
July 2nd, 1895.—Exhibits:—Mr. Bacot: several generations of 
Seleniatetralunaria , many of the specimens being remarkably fine and 
large. Mr. Bloomfield : a somewhat variable series of Emydia eribrum, 
taken on Whit Tuesday, at Ringwood. Mr. Tutt referred to the 
unusual abundance this year of larvae of Cucullia chamomillae wherever 
Matricaria inodor a (corn feverfew) grows. Dr. Sequeira said that 
in his garden at Hackney, treacle, flavoured with tincture of valerian, 
proved twice as productive as that flavoured with rum or jargonelle 
pear. Mr. Richardson recorded the recent capture of Erebia epiphron 
in some numbers, and in fine condition, near Windermere; he had also 
taken Nemeophila plantaginisv ar. hospita in the same locality. 
July 16th, 1895.—Exhibits :—Mr. Bate : a bred series of Hypsipetes 
sordidata from Lee ; also some questionable specimens of Tephrosia 
biundularia and T. crepuscularia. Mr. Battley: a female specimen 
of Saturnia pyri from North Italy. He stated that some young larvae 
bred from eggs deposited by this specimen were black, with red 
trapezoidal warts and short bristles ; but after casting their skin 
for the second time they became pale green with yellow warts and 
long spatulate hairs. Mr. S. J. Bell: a long series of Boarmia 
roboraria, and a specimen of Tryphaena subsequa, both from the New 
Forest. Mr. May : a series of Melitaea athalia from Plymouth. Mr. 
T. Clarke : Geometra papiliouaria and Pericallia syringaria, from the 
New Forest. Mr. J. A. Clark : full grown larvae of Saturnia carpini 
from Wicken Fen ; also a pair of pale-spotted Argynnis paphia from 
Brockenhurst. Mr. Bacot: a series of Boarmia repandata, bred from 
a dark female taken in South Wales ; only one of these specimens was 
of the normal colour, all the others showing a strong tendency to be¬ 
come melanic. Dr. Buckell: larvae of Dianthoecia capsincola , which 
he had found feeding in the seed-pods of a solitary plant of Lychnis 
diurna, in his garden ; he had never captured the imago, nor had he 
heard of its occurrence so near the centre of London ; in the Society’s 
London List it is recorded from Clapton and Stamford Hill, and from 
the Hampstead and Highgate district, but not from any more central 
locality : also larvae, 14 days old, of Hadena contigua , that were feeding 
well on knot-grass, which they took to in preference to birch ; also an 
ichneumoned larva of Biston hirtaria, with the parasite, and read a 
