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N, Cornwall ova. They were forced in January, and specimens 

 were still emerging. 



Mr. J. Piatt Barrett exhibited a series of Euchlo'e damone from 

 Sicily, and stated that the variation in the species was extremely 

 slight. 



Mr. F. W. Frohawk exhibited a series of Arctia caja bred and 

 captured in the Scilly Islands. They were of the yellow form of 

 various shades. He said that in some years the species was very 

 abundant, and in 1897 in countless thousands. One specimen 

 exhibited had but little cream colour on the forewings, and the 

 hindwings had the submarginal spots coalesced into a wide band, 



Mr. Adkin stated that the late Mr. J. Cooper years ago took a 

 number of larvae of this species on Wanstead Flats, and on one 

 day subsequently bred no less than six or seven yellow forms, 

 while no other specimen showed that aberration. 



Mr. B. H. Smith exhibited a species of beetle found doing great 

 damage to a cargo of Tasmanian peas which had recently been 

 imported. It was subsequently found to be Bi-uchus chinensh 

 {pectimcornis). 



MARCH llth, 1915. 

 Mr. A. E. GiBBS, F.L.S., F.E.S., Vice-President, in the chair. 



Mr. R. T. Bowman exhibited a bred series of Kphyra pendnlaria 

 and read the following note : — 



" I have a few examples of Eplujra [Zonosoina) pendularia to show, 

 which I believe to be the form known as var. suhroseata. In the 

 autumn of 1918 I beat a number of wild larvae in Surrey, and 

 when the imagines emerged in May of last year, to my astonishment 

 I found one was what I presumed to be var. subrosaeta. This 

 example, which was a female, was paired with a typical male, and 

 I obtained 82 ova and eventually 82 pupse. Of the 32 pup», 28 

 imagines emerged between the 28th of June and the 6th of July, 

 and one in the first week of September, so that 3 are still in the 

 pupal stage. Of the 29 imagines 16 turned out to be of the typical 

 form and 13 of the pink form, and these again are divided, the 16 

 typical into 7 <? s and 9 $ s, and the pink into 6 <? s and 7 ? s, a slight 

 preponderance of the ? sex." 



Mr. A. E. Gibbs exhibited a specimen of the huge South 

 American Noctuid, Tlii/sania aijrippini {Noctua stri.r) from Costa 

 Rica, from whence several examples had recently been sent to him. 



