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intense black with no markings on border, the hindwings showing 

 blue spotting over the red lunules, a lovely striking form ; two with 

 white spotted borders, as in ab. f aider i ; several with red bordering 

 on all four wings ; several with white-rayed borders extending from 

 edge of wings to the central areas; ab. minor; four ab. incequalis 

 containing deep dashes of male coloration (gynandrous) ; three ab. 

 ri>ystonensis (gynandrous), the right side both upper and lower wings 

 much smaller than the left, and well powdered with blue andro- 

 conia. 



Undersides : — One perfect ab. ohsoleta with whitish ground colour ; 

 another ab. ohaoUta with left wing without the usual border, the 

 markings rayed into the central area, the right side unfortu- 

 nately being crippled, otherwise it would have been a choice speci- 

 men; another true ab. obsoleta with the groundcolour of a beautiful 

 cinnainon-brown ; two with right side lower wings perfect ab. obso- 

 leta, other wings being typical ; two ab. striata with deep black 

 dashes in place of the usual spotting ; many with ground colour of 

 a blackish-brown ; one of a very light ground colour (passable as a 

 male) ; one with very dark borders, the central area being white. 



Mr. Robert Adkin exhibited series of Fuhjommatns icams. from 

 Scotland, including the Orkney Isles (representing its most northerly 

 British range) and the Outer Hebrides, North and South Ireland, 

 North Wales, the North and South of England, the Isle of Man, and 

 the Scilly Isles. The series from the North of Ireland were remark- 

 able for the large size of the individuals comprised in them, some of 

 the males measuring 88mm. in expanse, and for the brilliant blue 

 coloration and large size and intensity of the red submarginal spots 

 of the females. Many of the Scotch specimens also were of large 

 size, especially those from Orkney and the Hebrides, but the females 

 were generally less brilliant except in the case of those from the last 

 named locality, which closely approached the Irish. The South 

 English series included many well-marked undersides, intensely 

 blue and brown females, with many intermediates, and a couple of 

 gynandromorphs taken respectively on Wandsworth Common, in 

 1860, and at Dover, in 1900. 



JANUARY nth, 1917. 



^Ir. West exhibited a spray of flowers which had just expanded 

 from the buds sent to him from South Africa. Mr. Morton said 



