xxii Journal of Proceedings.
The President announced that a Field Meeting would be held on
Saturday, July 3rd, for the purpose of visiting the ancient camps in the
Forest. Major-General Pitt-Rivers, F.R.S. (Vice-President of the
Anthropological Institute), would act as Archaeological conductor,
assisted by Mr. B. H. Cowper, the discoverer, and Mr. Wm. D'Oyley,
the surveyor of the Loughton Camp. Professor Boulger, F.L.S.,
F.G.S., &c, would superintend the botanical researches of members,
and many other well-known men were expected to be present.
Mr. James English exhibited the following insects taken in Epping
Forest:—Notodonta dictaeoides, Stauropus fagi (the "Lobster Moth"), and
curious varieties of Eubolia palumbaria (captured at the last Field Meet-
ing), Argynnis selene (" Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary" butterfly), and
Lomaspilis marginata. Mr. English also referred to his re-discovery of
the "Mountain Buckler Fern," Lastrea Oreopteris {montana of Newman's
British Ferns), at the Field Meeting on the 19th of June. The plant
used to occur near Fair Mead Bottom at the back of the "Royal
Oak," High Beach, and one or two other localities, years ago. He had
often searched of late to re-discover the species, but in vain, until the
occasion referred to; he had since noticed another plant. Mr. Cole
remarked on the probability of many lost species re-occurring; and
instanced the Lily of the Valley, which had become very rare in the
Forest. This year young plants were springing up in numbers in
several spots.
Mr. Meldola exhibited Aplecta occulta (dark aberration), Aplecta tincta
and Noctua glareosa, all captured in the woods near Woodford some
years ago. Mr. English remarked that glareosa occurred occasionally
in some parts of the Forest, but that A. occulta was a great rarity.
Mr. Doubleday had once bred a batch of thirty or forty specimens, but
all of the grey tint common in southern specimens, whereas Mr.
Meldola's example was similar to the dark northern form of the moth.
Mr. B. G. Cole exhibited the following moths :—Cucullia chamomilla,
taken at Buckhurst Hill in May; Tephrosia consonaria and Nola cristualis,
taken in Monk's Woods in May; and a series of Demas coryli (the "Nut-
tree Tussock" moth) bred from larva found in the same place in Sep-
tember and October, 1879.
The Secretary exhibited some living plants of the "Sundew" (Drosera
rotundifolia), gathered that morning in Epping Forest. He called atten-
tion to the very restricted habitat of the species, and the certainty that
any extensive drainage of the locality would inevitably exterminate
this, one of the most wonderful of British plants.
The President gave some interesting details of the results of modern
study of the "Sundews." He briefly described the structure of the
leaves of the Drosera, the gland-bearing tentacles, and the viscid fluid
secreted by them. Insects alight on the leaves, probably attracted by-
some odour exhaled by the plant. The viscid fluid covering the ten-