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baxteri : aud made remarks on the probable correct identification of the 

 specimens. He also showed a bred series of Phibalaptenjx lajiidata. 



Among the exhibits of Palfearctic lepidoptera, was that of Mr. W. G. 

 Sheldon, F.E .S., who brought up two drawers containing fine examples 

 of Liiiienitis populi, Xeptis liicilla and X. accris, together with Apaturids 

 from Herculesbad and other continental localities. 



Mr, J. P. Barrett, 50 to 60 Melanar<iia pherusa, very varied, from 

 Mount Etna and Syracuse ; also Melanarnia var. procida from Messina 

 and Monte Cicci — the darkest forms being taken near Messina ; also 

 some very rare forms of Amorpha populi 3 . Besides these were shown 

 aberrations of Vanessa io. 



Dr. Chapman, M.D., F.E.S., F.Z.S., exhibited local forms of Pararge 

 ei/eria, from Britain, the Pyrenees, Riviera, N.W. Spain, and S.W. 

 France. 



Mr. A. E. Gibbs, F.E.S., Papilio machaoii from .Japan, Pyrenees, 

 Saxony, The Alps, etc. Mr. Hugh Main, on behalf of two German 

 collectors, a series of forms of various species of Vanessids from the 

 province of Yenesei, Siberia ; among them being aberrations of 

 Eiiianessa antiopa, Vanessa io, and Aglais urticae similar- to those that 

 have been produced by temperature experiments. 



Mr. Herbert E. Page, F.E.S., a long series of Coenomjnipha donis, 

 taken at Digne, Basses Alpes, on July 24th, 1910, on w^bich date they 

 were just emerging ; and also a series of Polyonuiiatus escJieri from 

 Abries, Hautes Alpes, August, 1910. 



Mr. W. J. Lucas, F.E.S., exhibited an English trap-door spider and 

 nest, taken in the New Forest, and a huge stick insect from Toowoomba, 

 Queensland. Also specimens of Colias philodice, Pieris scudderi, 

 PJiti-anetisa antiojia, and Anosia plexippus, taken by one of his boy scouts 

 who accompanied Sir Hy. Baden-Powell to Toronto, Ontario, 



Mr. S. Edwards, F.E.S,, F,Z,S,, exhibited numerous species of 

 lepidoptera from W. Africa, in which sexual dimorphism is very 

 strongly developed, chiefly of the genus Cymothoe. — R. E, P. 



Three weeks in the Abruzzi. 



By GEORGE WHEELER, M.A,, F.Z.S., F.E.S. 



(Concluded from p. 258), 

 On the 12th, we went on -to Sulmona, the terminus of the branch 

 line from Terni and the junction of the lines from Rome, Naples and 

 Castellamare on the Adriatic, and consequently a favourable place 

 from which to make excursions if one stays long enough. Here also 

 is a good buffet at, the station, but the "hotels " are very primitive. 

 The Monzu, at which we stayed, is certainly the best. One enters 

 into a sort of covered court paved with cobbles, from which the salle- 

 a-manger opens on the left and the kitchen (into which one is invited 

 in order to choose one's dinner straight out of the pots and pans), in 

 front, a stone stair-case ascending to the right of the kitchen door. 

 The bed-rooms have at least the merit of size. The food is simple, 

 but excellently cooked and cheap ; here also one pays according to 

 what one eats, but we found our bills, everything included, only 

 amounted to about 5fr, 50c. a day per head. There is a tram from 

 the station to the town, and unless one has a quantity of luggage it is 

 well to wait for it if it has not arrived, rather than be inveigled into 



