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abnoi'mal amount of blue scaling. These blue scales are freely 

 sprinkled over the wings. Both the Oxshott and the Darenth series 

 contain a specimen with the hindwings considerably paler than 

 usual. Of two undersized specimens from West Wickham, one is 

 exceptionally dark, and the other has the orange of the hindwings 

 very pale ; the forewings of both are very narrow. The species was 

 on the wing by the middle of March, 1920. 



He also exhibited ova of Apocheima hifipidaria, and stated that 

 they were always laid in crevices in even rows and bunches, and the 

 larvffi from the lower eggs eat their way through those above. 



Mr. B. S. Williams exhibited two males and six females of a 

 very striking form of CUlaria {Dysstroma) triincata from Finchley 

 (bred), in which the basal third was black, margined by a lighter 

 line, the central area being solidly black succeeded by an empha- 

 sised white line, and the outer margin lighter and not uniform in 

 coloration. This form does not appear to have been recorded 

 hitherto. 



Mr. Hy. J. Turner exhibited three species of the genus Vtetheisa 

 (Deiopcia). 



(1) U. piilchella from several localities, and including ab. Candida 

 with pure white ground, from Natal ; ab. lotriv with crimson spots 

 more developed and conjoined, from Assam and New Ireland ; and 

 ab. thyter (?) from Cyprus, with the black spots becoming more or 

 less obsolete and the markings generally paler. 



(2) U. ornatrix, from the warmer parts of the American conti- 

 nent, with forewings suffused with pink and tinged brown. 



(3) The very beautiful sub-species renusta of U. bella, from 

 Jamaica, in which the thorax and forewings have the orange mark- 

 ings of the type form replaced by brilliant crimson. 



Mr. K. G. Blair exhibited the galls made in the stems and twigs 

 of aspen by larvae of the Longicorn Saperda popnlnea. 



Mr. Barnett reported taking the following species on March 21st, 

 at Oxshott : — Brephos pait/wnias in numbers, Xijlocampa areola, 

 TephroHia crepascidaria, T. pnnctularia, IVichopti'ry.r caipiiiata, and 

 Gonepteryx rhauini ; and in Ashtead Woods, Kiiyonia polychloros. 



Spring larvffi were, speaking generally, reported to be very scarce, 

 such as Arctia villica, Lasiocanipa qiiercits, Cosinotriclie pntatoria, etc., 

 and those that were met with were very small. Arctia caia larvffi 

 were in fair number. Imagines of Euchloe cardcwtines and K. 

 polycldoros had been met with in several localities, while B. par- 

 thenias had swarmed, and Hibernia leucnphccaria had been scarce. 



