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Mr. Bethune-Baker said that in working at the moths he had noticed American 

 affinities in several groups, particularly in the genus Phlogophora, which was much 

 more American than European. Mr. Bradley, for Mr. J. W. Moore, a remarkable 

 vai'iety of Arctia Caia, bred from a lot of larvse collected locally and reared under 

 natural conditions ; the markings were all in tlieir usual positions and forms, but 

 the whole insect was of a rich dark brown, the markings on the hind-wings showing 

 black, and on the fore-wings a lighter brown. Mr. J. T. Fountain, Argynnis Aurinia, 

 from Umberslade ; a bleached Specimen of Epinephele Janira, from Wyre Forest ; 

 a specimen of Vanessa lo, from Kniver Edge, the two sides of which were unequal 

 in size ; a specimen of Vanessa Atalanta, with white spots in the red bands, from 

 Bournemouth, and anotlier from Himley, near Dudley, with the red bands broken. 

 A specimen of Apatura Iris, in which the bands of the fore-wings on the upper- 

 side were small and bent inwards, and on the under-side were only shown as paler 

 bars, not white ones ; the under-sides were altogether very slightly marbled, nearly 

 plain, with less wliite on the fore-wings than usual ; the purple iridescence on the 

 upper-sides could be seen on all the wings at once, not on one side only at a time, 

 as usual. Mr. W. Bowater, a lot of butterflies, unnamed, collected about 500 miles 

 up the Niger river. Mr. Kenrick said that one Pieris seemed to be new to him. 

 Mr. H. Taylor, Luperina cespitis, from Yardley ; Eiigoiiia erosaria and Tethea 

 subtusa, from Wyre Forest, and Cirrhoedia xerampelina taken this autumn at 

 Stechford. Mr. G. W. Wynn, Gortyna flavago, from Sutton ; Neuroiiia popularis, 

 from Yardley ; Hoporina croceago, a bred series from Wyre Forest ; Trichiura 

 crataegi, from Wyre ; Asphalia diluta, from Sherwood Forest, and CaJocampa exoleta, 

 from Sutton. Mr. Or. H. Kenrick, Tephrosia crepuscularia and linndularia, and 

 expressed the opinion that they were but one species and that locally it was single 

 brooded and consisted of light and dark forms mixed. Mr. H. Foster Newey, a 

 number of drawings of larvse. A communication from Mr. R. W. Fitzgerald was 

 read, giving a list of the Macro-Lepidoptera collected and observed by him within a 

 radius of four miles of Uley, near Dursley, Glos. It contained the names of 286 

 species, and included Vanessa Antiopa, taken on November 3rd last ; Chaerocampa 

 porcellus, abundant this year; Setina irrorella (1)) ; Xanthia aurago, common in 

 1895 ; Folia flacicincta; Chariclea umbra, one at sugar, 1896; Phibalapteryx tersata 

 and vitalhata, &c. Mr. R. C. Bradley, a collection of Diptera, &c., made at Bourne- 

 mouth during the first fortnight of August this year ; it included Geranomyia unicolor, 

 Xanthogramma ornata, Myopa fasciata, Miltogramma punctata, and conica, Idia 

 lunata, &c., the last species is only in Mr. Verrall's list of reputed British species. 



December 2lst, 1896.— The President in the Chair. 



Mr. Bethune-Baker showed, for Mr. Abbott, three specimens of a Lyccena taken 

 by Mr. C. B. Antram at Upfield, Sussex; they were females, and were suffused 

 with blue, and were believed by the captor to be hybrids between Icarus and Agestis. 

 Mr. Bethune-Baker said they were a not unusual form of the female of Icarus, which 

 he had from several localities. Mr. R. C. Bradley, Emmelesia ericetata from Inver- 

 ness-shire, &c. Mr. P. W. Abbott, a fine bred series of Agrotis Ashworthii ; they 

 had been reared from eggs laid this year by a bred pair, and had been got through 

 by forcing ; he also showed a yellowish specimen of Arctia Caja, and a specimen of 

 A.fuliyinosa, in which the black markings of the hind-wings had been splashed 



