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Perhaps breeding the larv£B from the cross-pairing may decide what 

 this form really is." 



Mr. A. A. W. Buckstone exhibited very long series of various 

 races of British Zygaenids including hybrids and a large number of 

 specimens showing variations in the spotting. 



Mr. Barnett exhibited a small series of the British species. 



Mr. B, S. Williams exhibited an asymmetrical Vaiiessa in, the R. 

 wing being 24'5 mm. in length, the L. wing 34 mm. ; an aberration 

 of roli/oiiniiatKs icanis in which the forms parviimiicta, discreta and 

 icariiiKH were combined ; an ab. ]iosticn-ajiicalis of the same species, 

 and a curiously brown-suffused underside of a female of the same 

 species with tawny lunules, from Scotland. 



Mr. A. E. Tonge exhibited a livmg Anijihidasix strataria he had 

 just taken at Reigate. 



Mr. Newman reported that he had been at Bournemouth from 

 February 10th to 16th, the Blackthorn was in full bloom on the 

 12th, and on that day he saw a specimen of X>/locauij)a aie(da 

 {litJinrhiza). 



MARCH 2ith, ]92\. 



Mr. L. W. Newman exhibited living larvte of Iliunicia jildcwas 

 collected wild in the morning of this day. Both forms of the 

 larvae were found, those feeding on the large leaf sorrel, Eumex 

 acetona, being all green like the leaves, while those feeding on the 

 small leaf sorrel U. acetosella, were green and red like the leaves 

 and stems. He also reported the capture at Bexley of a unicolorous 

 black female of Lycia [Biston) hirtaria. 



Mr. Main exhibited a specimen of lilapt^ mncrunatu, the "cellar 

 beetle," which Mr. Blair said fed upon rotting vegetation. 



Mr. B. S. Williams exhibited a short series of selected specimens 

 of C(H'n<))i!piiidui pavip/iilna including three pale ones from Scotland, 

 a large female from Swanage, a dark male underside, and a male 

 with heavy borders and black interneural spots on margins of hind 

 wings. 



Major Cottam exhibited r/tri/.cint lirornica from Southbourne, a 

 melanic form of ^J^lllas tiliae with a silvery form of the same 

 species, and the form costovata of Xantliorho'e /liictiiata from his own 

 garden at Twickenham. 



Mr. Grosvenor reported the occurrence of Pieris rapae at Redhill 

 on March 20th, and stated that the larvje of Zyijaena trifolii had 



