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Hb., which, a local collector told him, was not native to the Fen, but had been intro- 

 duced there by himself; there were also Phrafjmataecia ca/stanex, Hb., Meliana 

 flammea. Curt., Pyrausta c'dialis, Hb., &c. Mr. Hubert Langley, various Lepi- 

 doptera taken by himself at Princethorpe Wood, in South Warwickshire, during 

 the second week in July last ; there was a long series of Boarmla roboraria, 

 a species hitherto little known as a Warwickshire insect but which proved to be 

 quite common in this locality ; they were taken chiefly at ligVit, to which the males 

 came freely between 10.45 and 11.30 p.m. ; other species were Aplecta prasina, F., 

 a very dark specimen ; Habroxyne derasa, L., Euchloris pustulaia, Hufn. {baju- 

 laria, Schiff.), Cidaria silaceata, Hb., &c. Mr. L. Donca8ter,'a very interesting 

 bred series of Abraxa.i grossuIariafa,'L.,hre(\ and arranged in illustration of the 

 Mendeliau hypothesis. The experiments had been made with var. faiwfasciata 

 {lacticolor, Raynor). He said that in nature the variety occurs only in the female sex . 

 The results of the experiments, whilst according generally with the required Mendelian 

 proportions, were curiously complicated with the sex question ; for although in the 

 second generation = cross x cross, the proportions were 3 to 1, yet the males were 

 all the dominant form, i.e., the type, and the females half and half; whilst still 

 more curious is the crosses of cross x var. pure gave with <J cross x pure ? var. 

 result, half and half to each sex ; and with ^ pure var. (obtained during the 

 experiments) x $ cross, result, all males type, i.e., dominant, and all females var., 

 i.e., recessive. Mr. Gr. T. Bethune-Baker, a number of Turkestan Arctias as 

 follows : a large and beautiful series of A. infercalaris, Ev., with extreme light 

 and dark forms ; a few A. erschoffi, Alph., with var. iinyka, Std., and a long series 

 of A. glaphyra, Er , var. manni, Alph. ; he pointed out how much some of the 

 manni resembled erschoffi type, and said that he believed they would prove to be 

 forms of one species, though he thought it possible that var. issyka might perhaps 

 be distinct. Mr. H. Langley, the two specimens of Stauropus fagi, L., already 

 referred to as having been found at Princethorpe this year. — Colbean J. Wain- 

 WRIGHT, Hon. Sec. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History Society : 

 Thursday, October 2Uh, 1907. — Mr. R. Adkin, F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Dr. Chapman exhibited a specimen of Dasychira pudibunda from the Pyrenees 

 measuring 2| ins. in expanse. Mr. Moore, Hipparchia .semele showing considerable 

 variation in ground colour on the under-sides, and a small race of Enodia hyperan- 

 thus, both from Dunkirk sand-dunes, together with an example of Danais plexippus 

 from Moose Jaw, Winnipeg. Mr. Lucas, the specimens of Hyles euphorbix bred 

 recently from pupfe found in Kew Gardens. Mr. Tonge, Eugonia fuscantaria taken 

 by him at Red Hill on his way to the meeting. Mr. L. W. Newman, (1) a series 

 of Folia xanthomista var. nigrocincta bred from N. Cornwall ova ; (2) ova of 

 Ennomos fuscantaria and Cirrhoedia xerampelina in sitH on ash twigs ; aiui (3) a 

 long series of E. autumnaria, including a number of very fine bred dark brown 

 forms. Mr. Priske, a series of Necrophorus mortuorum and an exceptionally large 

 Liicanus cerous. Mr. Adkin, a series of Hyponomeuta cogiiateUus reared from an 

 Euonymus shrub in his garden, and contributed notes ; he also showed ova of 

 Tortrix pronubana. Dr. Hodgson, a Theretra porcellus, brilliantly coloured on the 



