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Mr. B. S. Curwen exhibited a drawer of many aberrations of 

 Folyommatiis icarus, all from the British Isles, and including the 

 named forms ab. carulescens, ab. carulea, ab. mvjulata, ab. striata, ab. 

 vulanntnxa [arcuata), ab. iphis, ab. icarimis and ab. semi-persica. 



Mr. R. T. Bowman exhibited a bred series of Geometra vemaria, 

 including an example in which the transverse lines on the disc of 

 the forewings converge and nearly meet in the centre, and another 

 specimen in which these lines converge, and on the right forewing 

 are united by a considerable suffusion of white. The specimens 

 were from Kent larvfe. He also exhibited some melanic forms of 

 Hydriomena iniplnviata bred from larvae collected at Oxshott, 



The Rev. G. Wheeler exhibited three small boxes of British 

 Lycsenids, taken in July and early August this year : — 



1. Pobjoinmatus iranis, Rott., from the Durham coast, remarkable 

 for their large size and the brilliant tint of the <? s ; they included 

 a (J ab. icarijius. 



2. Plebeius (eyon, var. masseyi, Tutt, the form from the northern 

 mosses, the ^ s bright blue, with very narrow black border and con- 

 spicuous black marginal spots on the hindwing, the $ s strongly 

 suffused with blue, in most cases as extensively as in Agriades 

 coridon ab. semisyngrapha ; the underside of the J s was remark- 

 ably white ; amongst the latter was an aberration having lead- 

 coloured hindwings on the upperside, and two with some of the 

 spots of the underside striated. 



8. Alicia medon, Hiifn., from the Durham coast, including almost 

 typical specimens ; var. salniacis, as described by Stephens, the ^ 

 with a black discoidal spot on the upperside of the forewing, the $ 

 with a white one ; ab. similis, Tutt, the ^ with a white discoidal 

 spot ; ab. albiannulata, Harr., with black discoidal ringed with 

 white, so frequently described as var. sabnacis, the original descrip- 

 tion of which excludes this form ; ab. vedra, Harr., with its extreme 

 form ab. obsoleta, Obth., in which the spots of the forewing are 

 missing on the underside, as well as those of the hindwing ; ab. 

 semivedra, Harr. ; and ab. inclara, Harr., with its silvery-white 

 ground colour on the underside, this specimen being also somewhat 

 striated. To these were added a few var. arta.rerxes, F., from 

 Kinghorn, on the coast of Fife. 



Also a series of Pieris napi, L., from the latter locality, remark- 

 able for the extent of the black markings on tho forewings of the 

 g 3 , and the grey suffusion along the costa, inner margin, and 

 nervures of the forewings of the $ ? . 



