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a few specimens from Croydon. Annual Address. — Mr. L. B. Prout, 

 the retiring President, read his presidential address. 



January 19th, 1915. — New Members. — The Rev. C. E. Raven, of 

 Cambridge, was elected a member of the Society. Exhibit of 

 Eupithecle. — Mr. L. B. Prout, two drawers containing a series of 

 nearly all the British species of Enpithecia, including very variable 

 K. mhfulvata and its Scottish forms coi/nata, etc. ; E. pygmaeata 

 captured flying in the afternoon at Doncaster ; melanic forms of 

 E. castif/ata, E. albipnnctata, E. vulgata, etc. Mr. H. W. Wood, E. 

 laHtiyata and its melanic form ab. obsciirissinio, Prout ; E. innotata, 

 showing 1st and 2nd brood usual forms, and some without the usual 

 markings, also of both broods, from Durham, and ab. fta.vinata from 

 Middlesborough ; also larvre of I'ieris bratfsicae taken in a garden at 

 Southfields on January 17th, several degrees of frost being registered 

 that morning. M. tili/E. — Mr. Bernard Cooper, a varied series of 

 Minicifi tiliae bred from a Lyndhurst J taken June, 1913. 



February %i(J, 1915. — The Annual Exhibition. — Dr. Cockayne, an 

 extreme specimen of Ilinnicia phlaeaR ab. eleus from Berkhampstead, 

 1911, (a very hot season) ; a specimen of Agriades coridon ab. semi- 

 syufirap/ia, Tutt, from Royston, showing additional blue scales on 

 inner margin of left forewing (a gynandromorph). Also a photograph 

 of the specimen, in which the gynandromorphic characters were clearly 

 shown. Mr. C. P. Pickett, long series of Agriades coridon from 

 Royston, the result of 4 years collecting, including males and females 

 with underside markings obsolete ; ab. inaeqnaliii, Tutt, and certain 

 gynandromorphic females with one side smaller than the other, the 

 small side having scattered blue scales; a specimen in which the male 

 element was on the larger side; and a female unequal on the two sides, 

 the lunules larger and brighter on the right side, which was also of the 

 ab. parisiensis form beneath. Mr. H. B. Williams, Mimas tiliae and 

 some of its commoner aberrations including ab. centripuncta, Clark; and 

 a long series of Amorpha populi including two gynandromorphs bred 

 from one brood in 1914 ; also a drawer of underside forms of 

 T'nlyoiiinatuH icarus including ab. obsoleta, Clark, ab. antico-striata, 

 Tutt, and others. Mr. H. W. Wood, Larentia ftavicinctata, type from 

 Rannoch, and a remarkable, light, local race from Ireland ; three 

 yellow abs. of Jirephos part/tenias from Surrey; Nonagria neurica and 

 its ab. fiiscn and ab. rtifescens from East Sussex: Acidalia iinmorata bred 

 as a 3rd brood from Lewes, October, 1913 ; Ptychopoda (Sterrha) 

 c(intignaria, and a melanic form, and a drawer of Mellinia ocellaris 

 and all its known British varietal forms including ab. lineago, 

 Gn., and intermedia, also the allied species fulvagn, L., and 

 gilrago, Esp., and gilvagu ab. .s;(//W.sfl ; also drawings by Mr. 

 Bachlade of the differentiated parts of the genitalia (penis with 

 cornuti) of the allied species ocellaris, gilvago, and fidvago. Mr. 

 J. Riches, a series of Abraxas grossidariata bred from wild North 

 London larvie from 1905 to 1918, including abs. nigrosparsata and 

 deleta [lacticolor), and one approaching varleyata ; also on behalf of 

 Mr. Dewey, of Eastbourne, three Arctia caja with yellowish-orange 

 hindwings, and two Arctia villica with confluent markings, all bred in 

 1914, and nine Brenthis euphrosyne with confluent markings taken in 



