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Zijiiai'im with a large nmiibei- of races and aberrational forms of 

 the British representatives of the genus, inchiding a doubtful 

 species flying with Z. tntti and Z. trifnlU, probably a hybrid, the 

 series of Z. tntti taken by the late J. W. Tutt at Chattenden Woods 

 in 1892, the hybrids bred from the wild pairing of Z. tntti and Z. 

 tiifolii, most of the species of the genus found in other European 

 and Eastern countries particularly from Italy, etc. 



The following aberrations of British Rhopalocera were also 

 shown by Mr. Grosvenor : — /Vf//.s- napi, yellow forms from Ireland; 

 Jhcnt/iis I'lip/irosi/ne, irregularly marked aberration from Sussex; 

 /)'. sc'lene with median row of spots missing ; Cocninn/mp/ta pamphiliis, 

 various forms from Surrey; Ariria nieiion (astrarr/w), 2 with white 

 spot as in race artaxer.res, with underside forms of ab. ttbsolcta and 

 ab. striata from Surrey ; PalijniinnatuH icanis various forms froiji 

 Surrey; Aiiriadea tkefis, various forms and colour variations from 

 Surrey; A. niridoii, various forms of females from Hertfordshire. 



j\Ir. B. W. Adkin exhibited two drawers containing many 

 varieties of Ai/riades t/wtiti [bcllari/iis), and a selection of Rhopalocera 

 takt;n by himself in 1921, including two llespt-ria inalrac var. taras, 

 a pale variety of Xisoniaiirs tai/es, light and dark varieties of 

 T/ii/ineliciis palaeinon, two varieties of Ihunicia [C/irijsojihaniis) phlaeas, 

 a fine blotched variety of Hrenthin aelene and lightly and heavily 

 marked forms of B. eiipliros}inc. 



Mr. Sydney Abbott exhibited a suffused black form of Dryas 

 pa phi a from the New Forest. 



Mr. J. Seabrook exhibited tho pink Boll-worm moth, Platijedrnn 

 (/< issi/ pi dla, a,nd larva; another '>oll-worm moth, I'lariax inxnlana : 

 with the parasites of the above, I'impla toixn-ata and Chelonella 

 sulcata ; a Solitary Wasp, l\iiiiH'iifs ina.rillosa ; the formerly common 

 Lebeck beetle Xystroccra {/lahnsa ; and the orthopteron Sphudromanti/i 

 hiocidata eating Mantin reliifiosa. 



Mr. H. Moore exhibited the tibidlns race of I'apilio dardanns 

 from Africa. 



Mr. K. G. Blair exhibited : — 



1. I'apilii) inac/iaon, with the usual red markings of the anal 

 angle wanting, the ground colour of an abnormally deep yellow, 

 and the blue spots much reduced ; from St. i\Ialo. 



2. lUisina tcuchrosa a black form. There is no similar form 

 in the ]5ritish Museum, though one is figured in Barrett ; taken in 

 the Isle of Man, June, 1921. 



8. Craiiihns sp. ? Allied to ' '. pascndlns, of which it is perhaps 



