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Bunnett, C. W. Colthrup, and by Mr. Colthrnp on behalf of the mem- 

 bers of the Nature Photographic Society, including Messrs. Bedford, 

 Salmon, Sanders, Main, Hocking, Tonge, Irving and Stanley Cook. 

 Bred C. gallii. — Mr. Newman, a long series of Celerin (/allii bred 

 from N. Cornwall ova. Sicilian E. damone. — Mr. -J. Piatt Barrett, a 

 series of Eiichln'e (hniwne from Sicily, and remarked on the small 

 amount of variation in the species. Aberrations of A. ca.ta. — Mr. F. 

 W. Frohawk, a series of yellow forms of Arctia caja from the Scilly 

 Isles, where it was met with in some numbers. 



March IWi. — Ephyra pendularia ab. subroseata bred from Surrey. 

 — Mr. Bowman exhibited a bred series of Ephyra pendularia, including 

 f considerable percentage of ab. snhroaeata. They were a second 

 generation from larvip beaten in Surrey. The huge Noctuid Thysania 

 AORippiNA. — ^Mr. Gibbs, a specimen of the huge Noctuid T/n/sam'a 

 af/rippina from Costa Rica, whore it sits on tree trunks as does an 

 Kupithccia. A CtYnandromorpiious hybrid. — Mr. Wicher, a remarkable 

 gynandromorphous hybrid iS/;;(^r//if/(//.s' oc-<'Z^fl?».s (J x popnli $ in which 

 the left side was J and the right side 2 ■ A rare book. — Mr. Hy. J, 

 Turner, a copy of an uncommon work, Illustrations of British Mj/eolni/i/, 

 by Mrs. Hussey, 1846, with 92 coloured plates, which he had recently 

 bought cheap, as it was about to be torn up by the bookseller to dis- 

 pose of the plates at a few pence each as "pretty pictures." Micro- 

 scopical Exhibits. — The rest of the evening was devoted to exhibitions 

 under microscopes. Mr. Adkin, the structure of the cocoon of Dicra- 

 niira viniila and antennal structure in Lepidoptera. Mr. Edwards, a 

 species of Xncteribia, the parasite of the Fishing-bat. Mr. West 

 (Ashtead), androconia of Vieris hrassicae, a Coccns found on bananas, 

 and Hy/iolo.ri/hni cocrinciiin, a micro-fungus on wood. Mr. Coxhead, a 

 number of mites infesting a brazil-nut. ]\Ir. Ashdown, minute species 

 of Coleoptera and Hemiptera. Mr. Bunnett, larva of a Thrips which 

 had been attacked by a micro-fungus. Dr. Chapman, skins of the first 

 and last stages of Erercs ariiiailes, with figures and illustrative notes on 

 the same. 



March, ^nth. — Special Exhibition of A. hyperantus, — The 

 evening was specially devoted to an exhibition and discussion of 

 Aphantopiia hiiperantux, contributed to by Messrs. Frohawk, R. Adkin, 

 Bright, B. Adkin, Edwards, Dennis, Turner, Curwen, Ashdown, 

 Gibbs, and Leeds. Ab. arete, ab. vidxa, ab. ocellatus, ab. lanceolata, 

 ab. minor, var. bieti, ab. caeca, ab. ohsoleta, with numerous other forms 

 were shown. Aberrations of British Lepidoptera. — Mr. Bright 

 showed a fine .Irt/i/nnis ai/laia with numerous coalesced blotche.'i of 

 black, a Poli/ommatits icarns with extremely light ground on the 

 underside, and a ^ Ai/riailes coridni of the form sands in which red 

 scaling was developed adjoining the eyespots of the hindwings 

 upperside. 



London Natt'ral History Society.— ./«»(/«?•(/ 5tli, 1915. — New 

 Members. — Mr. T. H. Archer, of 52, Elsenham Street, Southfield^i, 

 and Mr. A. E. Hodge, of Southlields, were elected members of the 

 Society. Scotch Dunthcecia nana exhibited. — Mr. C. H. Williams, a 

 long series of Dianthoecia nana {compersa) from the Shetland Isles and 



