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no " twin spots," but dark hindwings and very large cuneate blue 

 lunules on all wings ; ab. cinieatii/iittata, Rayn., from Chalfont, 1912; 

 ah. atrebati'iisis (crippled), from Holniwood, 1907; ab. ni(iii(i(>rsata, 

 Rayn. ; and six specimens from N. Ireland, 1918, in one of which the 

 yellow markings are largely replaced by the ground colour. Also 

 photographs of the life history. 



Mr. Bunnett exhibited a photograph of the chrysalis of A. iirticte 

 just previous to the act of attaching itself to the silken pad, after 

 withdrawal from the larval skin, which was still being held by a 

 fold of the pupal integuments. 



Mr. Riches exhibited a form from Aberdeen which was so strongly 

 marked a polaris form as to be practically the Japaese connexa form; 

 a very light red-ochreous form of ab. pan-ipnncta, bred in a hot- 

 house ; and two series bred in hothouse conditions, one near East- 

 bourne, where the whole brood was uniform in ground colour and 

 dark, the other near London, where the whole brood was markedly 

 variegated with more light areas. 



Mr. Kaye exhibited several pathological specimens. 



Mr. B. H, Curwen exhibited a specimen of Sirex (jii/as, found on 

 a lady's skirt, much to her alarm, in Twickenham, in July last. 



Mr. B. S. Williams exhibited a series of Charceas (iraminis, from 

 Finchley, 1919, showing ground colour grey, dark grey, rufous, 

 light grey, and an aberration in which the longitudinal markings 

 were coalesced into one pale streak. 



Mr. Tonge exhibited a series of Oporabia autiDiinaria, from Preston 

 and Langridge Fell, including a strongly melanic specimen. 



Mr. Frohawk exhibited a living larva of Nona(/ria t ijph a; v/hich 

 was still small, although it had been feeding fourteen months. 

 From the New Forest, this year, he exhibited a series of aberrant 

 Lititenitis sibilla : (1) the first step towards ab. nitjrina, (2) a more 

 suffused specimen, (3 and 4) still further obliteration, and (5) com- 

 plete ab. n'Kjrina, (6) ab. nujrina, underside asymmetrical, left wing 

 with a plain band, right wing with the band nearly obliterated ; 

 Drijas pap/iia with hindwing partly radiated with several elongated 

 and united spots in both male and female, and two specimens with 

 much suffusion of both fore- and hindwings from the enlargement 

 of and union of some of the black spots ; and Anjynnis ci/dippe 

 (adippe), a series showing gradation in the extension of the spotting, 

 and one with only three spots in the submarginal row of the 

 hindwino-. 



