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ties to be a cannibal, but I have not found it so, although I have 

 bred it in considerable numbers." 



Mr. Garrett showed an extremely pale xanthic example of 

 Cmionyinpha pamphilus taken at Wicken. 



MABCR nth, 1920. 



Mr. A. C. Jump, of Wandsworth Common, was elected a 

 member. 



Mr. R. Adkin exhibited a specimen of Pyrameis atalanta in 

 which the usual red coloration had become yellow, and the spots of 

 the marginal bands of the hindwings were absent, taken in 1876 at 

 Folkestone ; an aberration of Vanei^m io, in which the eyespots of 

 the hindwings were represented by large black patches set in a pale 

 ring, and another in which the eyespots of the hindwings were quite 

 light in colour with two pupils ; they were taken at Wimbledon and 

 Southport respectively many years ago. 



Mr. T. H. Grosvenor exhibited a series of eggs of the Indian 

 kite, Milviis ;iovinda, taken during the breeding seasons of 1917- 

 1919, in the Jallandhar district of the Punjab. The clutches 

 exhibited varied in number. A single egg was not common, and 

 was usually abnormal. The prevailing and apparently typical 

 number is two, for at least 75 per cent, of the nests examined con- 

 tained two. Three was not uncommon, and four was observed only 

 once. The number of nests examined was, in 1917, 206 nests ; in 

 1918, 174 nests ; and in 1919, 168 nests; total, 548 nests. 



The exhibit was the result of careful selection for variation. The 

 nests are always placed in a tree at least forty feet from the ground, 

 and measure about three feet across and at least one foot thick. 

 They are for a carrion bird, very clean, being built on a foundation 

 of sticks, and lined throughout with dried grass ; in one instance 

 with cotton procured from a neighbouring cotton field. 



Mr. Barnett exhibited a series of Satt/nia semele from S. Devon, 

 showing much variation in the second spot on the underside of the 

 forewings; in some cases this was large and pupilled, in others very 

 small and unpupilled ; a series of Flebeins ciyun, with much varia- 

 tion in the underside spotting, and a striated form ; a Polyommatus 

 icarus, with very large black spots on the underside of the forewings, 

 and an ab. icarinns. 



Mr. A. A. W. Buckstone exhibited three forms of 



