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Mr, T. H. L. Grosvenor exhibited the following Zygasnid forms ; — 



1. Six of the progeny of ova laid by a 5 Z. trifolii, taken 

 in cop. in 1920, with a J of Z. /lippooepidis. Of the 14 specimens 

 bred, the 5 s resembled the 2 parent, 50 per cent of the g s were 

 like the 2 , and 50 per cent had a smaller sixth spot. 



2. Three Z. trifulii ah. nii/ricanfi^ ; two ab. obscura ; one white 

 example ; one with spot 4 missing on the left forewing ; J found 

 pairing with a 5 Z. filipendulae, with the genital organs mounted; 

 three very large examples 35 mm.; four very small 18 mm.; six 

 with a minute sixth spot ; several teratological examples ; four with 

 extremely wide border to hindwings ; and several confluent forms. 



3. Z. filijiendnlae of large size 36 mm.; a small form 20 mm.; 

 confluent forms; a very pale form ; one with hindwing rayed with 

 black ; and several fine yellow forms. 



Major Cottam exhibited some light chalk forms of Pleheiusi aegon 

 from N. Kent; a Spilosoma nienthastri, bred, in which the outer 

 half of all the wings was quite without markings (an unusual form) ; 

 a very pale-coloured Hypocrita jacobaeae, light brown or pale red ; 

 a dingy form of MeUtaea anruiia ; and Enchlo'e canlamines with 

 very yellow hindwings. 



Mr. Enefer exhibited the cup-lichen Cladonia pij.vhJata and the 

 golden lichen Physcia ■parietina both from Cornwall ; the larva of 

 a fly, Syrphiis sp. feeding on ApJds destructor ; and the garden spider 

 Epeira diadema, and read a note on the last. 



Mr. Goodman exhibited a small specimen of the Smooth Snake, 

 Coronella laevis, from Studland, and its principal prey the Sand 

 lizard (Lacerta ayilis) from Parkstone, Dorset. 



Mr. Syms exhibited the beetles, Chryso)iit'la (jrcDiiitus, from 

 Yorkshire, and C. banhsi, from the Isle of Wight. 



Mr. K. G. Blair exhibited the living larva of the saw'fly, 

 Eriocmiipn ovata, and called attention to the waxy secretion 

 attending its actions ; and also a living grasshopper Leptophycs 

 ])iinrtati>isiiiia, a subapterous species found on the leaves of trees. 



Reports were made that Acrimicta psi had been observed on 

 May 1st, Ayriades coridon on July 3rd, A. tlwtis on April 30th, and 

 the second brood on August 3rd, Pidyotimiatiis icanis on September 

 3rd, Ainorpha poptdi, second brood in the 3rd week of July ; a fourth 

 brood of linmicia phlaeas was now out ; C'olias hyale had been seen 

 on the S. E. coast ; Issoria latlionia had been taken in Kent, and 

 Colias croceus [edusa) was very rare this season. 



