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lunules barely and most indefinitely defined, the black veining, where- 

 ever it is at all apparent, widely emphasised, and the usually wide 

 band of orange inside the lunules only marked by small unconnected 

 remnants. On the underside the forewings with the black spots run 

 together to form a very irregular transverse band, no remnants of black 

 lunules on the hind margin, no trace of silver at the apex of wing ; on 

 the underside of the lower wing the basal spots are united radially into 

 three large silver blotches, the middle transverse row of silver spots are 

 completely suppressed, the silver lunules of the outer margin are more 

 or less extended basally into streaks, and only a slight indication of 

 black scaling to the outer edge of these silver spots. 



Mr. L. W. Newman exhibited a large selection of specimens bred 

 from Irish parents, including series of Pieris ua/ii, with very dark and 

 yellow flushed examples, /'. rapae, I'oli/oiiiiiiatiiH ican(s with brilliant 

 blue females, I hyan /lapln'a, Melifaea aurinia, Hlpparchia seiiiele with 

 many very pale examples, etc. ; four specimens of Xciiria reticulata 

 (sapcmarioe) bred from Cork larvfe, in which the usual dull ochreous 

 ground colour is replaced with a lovely pink suffusion ; a series of bred 

 Diant/tdtcia liiteatjo var. barrettii, bred from Cork and Devon larvte and 

 dug pupte; a very beautiful varied series of Pac/niobia lujperborea 

 {alpina), bred from dug pupse at Rannoch ; series cf Aitriades coridon 

 females from Herts, including the var. seiiiiai/mjrapha, intermediates 

 and other extreme forms ; a bred series of the yellow var. rossica. of 

 Calliiiiniplia dinidiuda from Kent; a series of bred Stnjuion pritni from 

 Huntingdon ; wild collected cocoons with living pupte of Fliaretra 

 ei(})hi>rbiae {uti/ricae) and Dicranura bicnspis, showing the wonderful 

 protective resemblance in the environment; eight out of the ten speci- 

 mens of (jrastropacha ilicifolia bred from ova laid by the $ captured at 

 Cannock Chase last year, with preserved larvae of the species; bred 

 series of Atjrotis as/uvurthii, A. ai)at/iiiia, A. Innitjera, Pti/c/iopoda 

 {Acidalia) contif/uaria, and Boanitia repandata from Wales ; a bred 

 series, 2nd brood, of FJnpithecia innotata from Durham ; series of 

 linophos unjrtillata {obfiiscaria) and Anarta cordii/era from Braemar 

 and Rannoch respectively ; a series of Heliothis pelti;/era, showing the 

 ditierent facies of the spring (June), probably immigrant, specimens 

 and those bred and captured in autumn (September) ; and the two 

 remarkable examples of Antlirocera filipendulae ab. chytisantheiiii, bred 

 at St. Anne's-on-Sea, ni 1914, in which the red coloration is mostly 

 obscured by dark brown or black suffusion. 



Mr. A. H. Jones exhibited a J" aberration of Mdaitaiy/ia (/alat/wa 

 taken at Folkestone, showing decrease of black marking on the upper- 

 side, so that the central transverse white area was regular and continu- 

 ous ; a 2 example of the same species from the Splugen Pass in 

 which the markings on the underside of the hindwings had coalesced 

 to form a complete band ; an A(/riade>> coridon taken at Deal by Mr. 

 Charles Fenn, a 2 of the very pale brown form known as ab. pallida ; 

 an ab. pallida of Coeiionympha pamphilus from Otford ; and three 

 examples from Eltham showing the recent spread of melanism, 

 Ai}ip/iidasis betidaria var. doiibledaijaria, T/iera rariata, a modified var. 

 obliterata, and Cidaria invnanata, a dusky form. 



Mr. W. Schmassmann exhibited very tine examples of the following 

 species of OmitJwptera : — 



Ornithoptera lydiaa, three 3' forms ; O. croesus, 3' \ ^*- borneiiianiii, 



