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Mr. Fryer exhibited a fine striated underside aberration of 

 Polyommatiis icariis. 

 The Rev. A. T. Stiff exhibited ;— 



1. Series of varieties of Epineplwle tithonus, taken at Tavistocli in 

 August, 1915, together with a long series of varieties taken in the 

 same district in previous years. Colour variation was not so 

 pronounced this year as in some former years, but the series 

 included one lemon-yellow and two golden-yellow females, and both 

 males and females in which the usually fuscous border was 

 replaced by mouse-grey. Both males and females with one or two 

 extra spots on the forewings were well-represented, but the most 

 noticeable features of this year's collection were the unusually large 

 size of the anal spots on the hindwings, and the presence in one or 

 two females of a well-defined additional spot below the anal spot — a 

 very rare variety. One female had no fewer than five spots on the 

 hindwing, including this spot below the anal spot. In several 

 cases the white specks on the underside of the hindwings were 

 developed into well-defined streaks. 



2. A specimen of Ccmoni/Dijiha pa)iiphiliis, taken at Royston in 

 August, with a double apical spot on the underside of the forewings. 



3. A specimen of Catocala ntipta taken at Leigh-on-Sea in 

 September, with well-defined black streaks running from the angles 

 of the submarginal line on the forewings to the series of marginal 

 black linear spots. These spots were greatly intensified in size. 

 The specimen had also three black transverse lines on the disc of 

 the forewings. 



The Rev. J. E. Tarbat exhibited : — 



1. FJpinephele hyperantns, — An underside of unusually light 

 ground colour causing the ocelli to stand out very prominently. 



2. Abraxas grnsxidariata. — A dark form and an ab. varletjata. 



3. Luperina testacea. — Five very dark melanic forms taken at St. 

 Anne's-on-Sea. 



4. A(jrotis niyricans. — A melanic specimen. 



Mr. W. West (Lewisham), on behalf of the Society, exhibited ten 

 cabinet drawers containing the collection of Canadian Lepidoptera 

 presented to the Society in 1889 by Mr. Lachlan Gibb. 



Mr. W. J. Kaye exhibited two large drawers of Morphos, 

 including Morpho cacia ; M. adonis, S and ? , the latter being 

 extraordinarily rare, Mr. Kaye had himself seen numbers of living 

 males, but never a ? ; M. cypris, males and females, the latter of 

 the usual yellow, and also the very much rarer blue form ; M. 

 sulJcowslcyi, $ and ? ; M, eras, ^ '■, ^I- aurora and M. aureola, a 



