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they allow themselves to be carried to the top and above in the 

 current as far as it ascends, and then fly down to the base of the 

 cliff to again be carried to the summit with their wings motionless, 

 fig. 3." 



Mr. Sperring exhibited an extremely interesting and unique 

 living aberration of Spilosonia itiendica bred by him from " larvje 

 taken wild." It was a male with a moderately wide margin around 

 the forewings of the usual dark male coloration, the whole of the 

 central area being of a much lighter smoky tint with considerable 

 scattered and definite dark spotting as in the female. No one in 

 the meeting had met with such an aberration in this species. 



Mr. Stanley Edwards exhibited Papilio telearchus with its mimic 

 Euplcea midainiis, Papilio rhetenor with its mimic the moth, 

 Epicopeia pobjdora, with Papilio bootes and P. dasarada, and com- 

 municated the following note : — 



" The genus Epicopeia consists of about 10 species, which are 

 found in Java, India, China, and Japan. The larvje of these moths, 

 according to Mr. Dudgeon, are covered with long processes of snow- 

 white efflorescence, like wax, exuding from the skin, and mimic a 

 colony of the larvte of a Homopteron. Hanipson states that the 

 imagines mimic the Papilios of the philoxenun group. The antennae 

 are bipectinate and the frenulum rudimentary. The genus is placed 

 by Dr. Sharp (" Insecta," Cambridge) next to the Uraniidce." 



Mr. Newman exhibited a living example of Pt/rameis atalanta 

 bred in September of last year, 1915. It was kept alive in a 

 warmed room and fed at intervals throughout the winter. It 

 seemed quite perfect and in no way damaged by its long vigil. 



Mr. Frohawk exhibited a twig from Addington upon which was 

 fastened the three last segments of a chrysalis, which had been 

 fully identified as the remains of a pupa of Colias eihtsa. 



Mr. R. Adkin made some remarks on the season at Eastbourne. 

 He had met with Sesia stellatani))i, Af/lais iirtinr in some number, 

 and Celastrina ar;iiolus. 



Mr. Frohawk said that he was doubtful if ^S. Rtellatanun was a 

 true bibernator, although, undoubtedly, it did at times live through 

 the winter in this country. He gave from July to April as the 

 period for hibernation of A. urticfr, while in Surrey he was 

 accustomed to consider it as from October to April. He had seen 

 Vanessa io in January in Cornwall flying over the snow, and had 

 also noted two Gonepteryx rhamni on the Friday after the recent 

 heavy snow. 



