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" The other hybrids shown are Odoyito(jlossttin triuinphosiini, a 

 primary hybrid showing complete fusion between ( >. triuwphans and 

 ■0. cin-hosnin ; Odontofiloasinn jienidtio)), a crossing of two different 

 hybrids, involving three species ; and Odontoi/losnutn tristan, a 

 •crossing between a species and a hybrid, also involving three 

 species." 



Mr. B. S. Williams exhibited a series of Hydroecia paludis from 

 8t. Anne's-on-Sea, comprising 18 specimens taken in 1914, showing 

 the great amount of variation of ground colour including pale 

 ■ochreous, red, and fuscous grey forms. The reniform stigmata also 

 varied from white to orange. Some forms showed a considerable 

 amount of chestnut reticulation, whilst in others this character was 

 obsolete. 



Mr. Frohawk brought a newspaper cutting announcing the 

 supposed appearance of the cuckoo at Minster. He stated that the 

 •earliest authentic record of the arrival of this migrant in this 

 country was March 29th. It was remarked that the late Prof. 

 Lyddeker was once led to make a similar announcement and after- 

 wards to find that he had been deceived bj^ the wonderful imitation 

 •of the note by a country labourer. 



Mr. Sich in remarking on the early season said that at Epping 

 the hawthorns were much advanced, and at Hampstead he had 

 seen two bushes that were perfectly green with expanded leaves. 



Mr. Frohawk remarked on the extraordinary early dates for the 

 blackbirds to commence singing. He had heard them on Dec. 26th, 

 Jan. 1st, and Jan. 7th, whereas normally they did not begin until 

 the end of February or the beginning of March. He also knew of 

 a starling that had already commenced to sit in Cambridgeshire. 

 There has been a nest in this situation for the last 16 years. 

 Several members had noted the early state of the Hawthorn, and 

 the Celandine and Blackthorn were also already in flower in places. 



Mr. Robert Adkin read a paper entitled : " Ocneria dispar in 

 Britain," and in illustration of his remarks exhibited a short series 

 of specimens of the form that occurred in the fen districts about 

 the years 1830-1840; of the form commonly reared in confine- 

 ment for many generations, the specimens shown having been 

 bred about 1880 ; and of specimens reared from ova obtained from 

 a female taken wild in Huntingdonshire in 1907 ; also a male 

 specimen bred from a wild larva found at Folkestone in 1899, and 

 an unusually large female taken at Eastbourne in 1909 (page 1.) 



Mr. H. A. Leeds exhibited the remainder of the brood reared 



