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AUGUST 25th, 1919. 



The decease of a member, Mr. J. H. Leslie, of Tooting, was 

 announced. 



Mr. B. S. Williams exhibited severalseries of yi/i^T/r/rt mari/inaria 

 {itnxjeiiDiiaria), including type forms and the var. fiiscata (from 

 Finchley and St. Anne's-on-Sea), with intermediate forms of which 

 one specimen had no transverse line on the hindwing. 



Mr. Newman exhibited a fine bred specimen of ab. walkeri of 

 Sinlosouia menthastri, from Bexley. 



Mr. Hy. J. Turner exhibited a long series of Hijdmecia cri)iane)tsis 

 received from Mr. T. Greer, Co. Tyrone, Ireland. They were 

 captured at honeydew on thistles, Cniciis paliistris, no Iris pseiidaconis 

 being found in the locality ; none frequented the ragwort growing 

 with the thistles. He also showed a fine pair of the ab. addenda of 

 Epinephele jurtina, from the same place, where this aberration tends 

 to form a local race in an old cut-out bog. 



Mr. Ashdown exhibited the rare beetle, (ii)ilo mollis .- also Gracilia 

 minitta, and stated that one of the specimens was the smallest 

 Longicorn he had ever seen. All were from Surrey, 1919. 



Mr. JSperring exhibited Boarmia repandata, five beautiful, soft 

 grey specimens from Oyne, Scotland, July, 1919. Agriades coridon. 

 — Two males (Cuxton, August, 1919) considerably suffused with 

 black scaling and with extremely heavy dark margins. A male 

 underside (Cuxton, August, 1919) ; forewings striated, hindwings 

 near ab. nbwleta. Aijlais nrticct. — Fifteen bred specimens from 

 Paisley (July; 1919), showing much variation in depth of colouring 

 and size of markings. 



Mr. Johnston exhibited the following aberrations he had taken in 

 the New Forest during a short holiday this season : — 1. Limenitis 

 sibilla, several specimens with the white markings of the upperside 

 reduced to small irregular blotches, and in two specimens to mere 

 traces, with undersides in which the markings were very divergent 

 from the normal, with much suppression of the white markings. 

 2. Dnjas papliia, showing irregular xanthic markings, others show- 

 ing considerable coalescence and elongation of the usual markings 

 on the upper surface. 



Mr. Bennett exhibited a larva of Acnmicta leporina feeding on 

 oak, from West Wickham. 



Mr. Edwards exhibited the following species of S. American 

 Papilios : — P. protodavias {liyperion), from Brazil ; P. phaon ab. 



