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Andrews. Rare Bkitish Coleoptera. — Mr. West also exhibited four 

 drawers of his own collection of Coleoptera, includinf^ British 

 examples of Cahmoiiia si/coiihanta, (aiahns nuratiiH, a series of 

 Miciaspis IQ-piinctata, l^i/tixnis chriiiiirinctns 5 s, with smooth ^ -l'l<e 

 elytra, and a series of forms of Xotiop/tilus i-pinu-tatns. Exotic 

 Coleoptera. — Mr. Stanley Edwards, large and attractive species of 

 exotic Coleoptera. Aberrant forms of F. auricularia. — Mr. Ashdown, 

 ;i series of aberrations of the earwig Forticiila auricularia, mostly with 

 aberrant size and form of forceps. South Ajierkjan and Trinidad 

 Insects. — Mr. W. J. Kaye, numerous large and conspicuous insects 

 obtained by him in South America and Trinidad; Coleoptera, 

 Phasniids, a Mygale, Cordiceps, &c. Pi>1e aphids. — Mr. B. Adiiin, 

 I'jxamples of Clicrme^ pini, the pine aphis, on Scots pine. A Portugese 

 Neukopterox. — Mr. Main, an example of the Neuropteron, Nenioptrra 

 coa, brought from Cintra by Mr. Bowman, and living larvie of the 

 firefly Tjiciola italica, from ova obtained by Mr. Blair and himself. 

 Wasps nests in tobacco. — Mr. R. Adkin, the nests of wasps found 

 rolled up in bales of tobacco from the Levant. Sicilian Insects. 

 — ]\Ir. Piatt Barrett, various conspicuous insects from Sicily and South 

 Africa; Mantis, ant-lion, locusts, etc. A number of non-entomological 

 exhibits were also shown. 



May 13th. — Aberrations of British Lepidoptera. — Mr. Leeds 

 exhibited aberrations of PolyoDniiatim icarx^; including ab. obaoU'ta, an 

 asymmetrical specimen near ohsnleta, a chocolate banded underside, 

 and a ? streaked with blue ; of Ai/riades t/u-tis including a ? without 

 orange in margin and bluish clouded, <? s with aberrant eye-spots 

 below, etc.; of A . coridon including dark suffused underside, slaty suffused 

 below, $ s with khaki streaks above, and ab. seniisij)t(iraplia ; of 

 ('oewini/nip/ia panipliiliis including dark suffused below, and an under- 

 side with additional spotting ; of Pararye aetjeria, the British form 

 eyeridcs and Cornish forms much like the S. European form aeycria ; 

 of ['icris brasiiicae a $ with a pale blue tmge throughout. Hybrid B. 

 HiRTARiA X N. lapponaria. — Ml. Adkin, a short series of the hybrid 

 liiston hirtaria^ X Xij'^sia lapponaria $ , and gave notes on the mixture 

 of the two specific series of characteristics. An African Specimen of 

 M. atropos. — Mr. Moore, Maiidnca atropoii from S. Africa. Swiss 

 Lycaenids. — Mr. Curwen, long series of Pohjonimatus eros and Latiorina 

 "rbitiiliis from Saas Graud and the Grisons respectively. Larvae of 0. 



ATRATA AND N. FLUCTUATA AB. NEAPOLISATA, — ^Mr. B. S. WilliaiUS, larViB 



of Odezia atrata on Ci/tisiis and a very varied series of Xantlior/mt; 

 lliirtnata with ab. Jifapolinata from Finchley. Argentine Insects. — 

 ^Ir. Cowham, cases of the large Psychid, Oeketicioi platt^nsis, examples 

 of the Neotropical (uliaa, C. lesbia, a large and conspicuously marked 

 "skipper" Oenides /ihnenicnla and an Arctiid, Hcpant/iera inderisa. The 

 Variation shewn in Sicilian Butterflies. — Mr. Barrett, a large number 

 of Lepidoptera mainly from Sicily, and read notes on the variation, 

 they included Tliais pnlj/.rena, Pontia daplidice, Antlmcltaris belia, 

 i'.Krhlo'e cardaiiiinex, with their racial, seasonal and aberrational forms. 

 A New Ant. — Mr. Dennis, photographs of the ant P'onnica pratensis, a 

 species closely allied to F. mfa. An Aberration of T. (iothica. — Mr. 

 Stallman, a Tafuiocainpa ijotliica 9 with right hindwing reproducing 



