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three were somewhat paler. A few specimens were very light in 

 ground colour, and a few others fairly dark. The bulk of the series 

 were mostly dark banded with a light ground. Two of the melanic 

 specimens had a deep yellow marginal area, all the rest of the 

 melanic specimens had dark fringes on the outer margin. One of 

 the examples had an irregularly widened submarginal band which 

 angled out nearly to the margin. A considerable proportion of the 

 specimens had a portion of the light central area white, while one 

 example had almost the whole of this area white. In one specimen 

 the sub-basal transverse band was extended to the base. Several 

 examples had the transverse light band of two distinct shades of 

 colour longitudinally. There were only three of the form with the 

 almost uniform orange mottling. There were several specimens in 

 which the two dark transverse bands approach one another very 

 closely near the inner margin. Mr. Bowman said that during the 

 nine previous years he had only obtained two melanic forms in the 

 same locality, while in 1914 he alone had taken the twelve examples 

 exhibited, while other entomologists also had obtained the form. 



SEPTEMBER 9th, 1915. 

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



Mr. Sano exhibited living larvae, pupae, and imagines of the 

 Longicorn Coleopteron, Rhaijium inquisitor. 



Mr. Leeds exhibited a number of underside aberrations of A(jriades 

 coridon mainly from Royston, Herts, including some with very dark 

 ground colour, asymmetrical, and nearly obsolete forms. He also 

 showed A. coridon ab. syiujra/iha with very dark borders, ab. 

 seniisynipapha, and numerous female Puhjommatns icarus with much 

 blue suffusion. It was the observation of several members who had 

 visited Royston, Herts, this season, that the females of coridon were 

 not in the great majority over the males as they had been reported 

 to be in previous years. 



Mr. H. Moore exhibited imagines of the pi/lades group of the genus 

 Papilio and read the following note : — 



" The piilades group is composed of but a few species having 

 fairly well-defined Inuits of distribution south of the Sahara. 

 P. pylades is found from West-North Tropical Africa to the White 

 Nile, and southwards to the most northerly part of the Congo 

 State. F. anyolanus (Goeze) from the Congo southwards to the 

 coast of Natal. P. morania (Angus) from the south-east coast 



