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and male parent yellow variety, the result being all pmk, orange, 

 and yellow specimens, no red being bred. 



4. Specimens of Abraxas (/rossidanata ab, vaiieyata bred from a 

 strain which had produced types only for the past five years. In 

 the previous years to this vaiieyata were bred from the strain each 

 year. 



5. Series of Ennomoa tpiercinaria bred from a Regent's Park 

 female, including banded and unicolorous chocolate forms. 



Mr. Hy. J. Turner exhibited— 



1. A series of aberrations of Agriades coridon from Royston, 

 Herts, including a number of ? ab. semisyngrapha, incomplete 

 seinisyngrapha, a female irregularly striated with blue on the fore- 

 wings, a number of specimens with the discoidal spots on all wings 

 conspicuously marked with white, and one or two aberrations in the 

 underside spotting. 



2. A series of ten males and nine females of Paniassius deliiis 

 taken in the Engadine at 8000ft. on one afternoon in August, 1914, 

 showing much minor aberration. 



Mrs. R. E. Page exhibited, on behalf of Mr. P. A. H. Muschamp, 

 of Stafa, Switzerland, a long series of more or less gynandro- 

 morphous males resulting from one brood of crossing of Lymantria 

 dispar and its. \qx. japonica. The breeding of these insects is inte- 

 resting as a proof of the truth of Dr. Schweitzer's theory that one 

 out of every four batches of ova from this particular degree of 

 mongrelisation, should give all gynandromorphous males. Further 

 particulars will shortly be available in the "Entomologist's Record." 



Mr. A. Mera exhibited a variable series of Lainpropteryx (Cidaria) 

 sujfuiiiata and other allied species, and remarked that the principal 

 feature consisted of three specimens of sujf'imiata taken in East 

 Devon and given to him by the Rev. J. W. Metcalfe, who told him 

 that where the insects were taken there is none of the usual food- 

 plant of stifumata, viz., the common hedge bedstraw. The three 

 specimens certainly stand out very distinctly from the other siij^u- 

 viata in the drawer, both in shape and size of wing, and seem in 

 markings and size as near to Enstroma (Cidaria) silaceata as to 

 SKlfiiiiiata. One of the three is a second brood specimen and was 

 not taken in the same wood as the other two. This was considered 

 by Mr. Metcalfe to be a rare occurrence of a second brood of siijfu- 

 niata, whereas it is well known that /•>'. silaceata is always double- 

 brooded. As to the genitalia, Mr. Metcalfe, who is an expert, in 

 such investigations, can find no difference between these odd speci- 

 mens and siijfutxata. 



