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var. eleiis; Polyommatus icarus var. striata and others; Aricia 

 medon and Ag Hades bellari/us, with the orange hinules unusually 

 heavily marked ; many interesting forms of Plebeiiis aegon and 

 Atp-iades coridon ; a specimen of Stryinon pruni, in which the 

 markings of the underside of the right wings approached those of 

 the female, and those of the left wings followed those of the male ; 

 also a remarkable form of Kpinephelejitrtina heavily scaled with white 

 (not bleached) on costa. 



Mr. W. G. Sheldon exhibited his collection of about 1,400 

 specimens of Peronea cristana, Fab., including the series of the late 

 Sydney Webb, examples of all the 72 named forms, and the 

 original type specimens of 39 of them. He also showed about 250 

 specimens of Leptof/raiiniia literaita, L., including ab. r<iiiia)iaiia, 

 Fab., tricolorana. Haw., irrorana, Hub., sqitamaiia, Fab., and several 

 unnamed forms. 



Mr. Percy M. Bright exhibited a long series of Epinephele 

 tithoiins containing some remarkable varieties, many with addi- 

 tional eye-spots of varied development, one without spots on the 

 forewings above, white suffused forms, and a gjnandromorph taken 

 at Swanage this year ; also a very varied series of Annjiuiis o(ilaia, 

 including several magnificent melanic varieties, and one extra- 

 ordinary scaleless aberration with the fringes perfectly developed on 

 all four wings. Mr. Bright called attention to the almost complete 

 destruction of the famous Monk's Wood, the home of Stn/'iion 

 priini. 



Mr. B. W. Adkin exhibited ten aberrations of Sati/nis semele, 

 including a male specimen with four spots on the forewings, taken 

 in North Kent in 1920. 



Mr. T. H. Grosvenor exhibited British species of Rhopalocera 

 which occur in India and Thibet, including : — Papilio niachaun, 

 race sphyms from the N.W. Himalaya, and race sikkiniensis from 

 Thibet ; Pieris brassicae and Pontia daplidire from the Punjab 

 Plains; P. rapae horn the N.W. Himalayas; Gonepteryx rlia\i)ni, 

 I'&ce nepaleiisis, from the Nilgiri Hills; C. Jieldii irom the Punjab 

 hills and plains ; Aryymiis lathonia, race issoria, from the Punjab 

 Hills; Apatura iris from Thibet; Vanessa cashmirensis from the 

 Punjab Hills ; Pyrameis cardni from India, generally ; Polyom- 

 matiis icarus, race persica, from the N.W. Himalayas ; Aricia 

 medon from the Punjab Hills ; and Riiniicia phlaeas from the 

 N.W. Himalayas ; and a series of Sarbaria polyctor showing slight 

 variation in the amount of green scaling, those from the Kulu- 

 district being greenest. 



