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1902, in Soutliuni Algeria; also a collection of Butterflies afterwards nuule by her 

 in the Picos do Europa in Spain ; the latter collection comprised about 85 species 

 and was made in 25 days. Mr. Elwes remarked that these collections contained 

 several interesting species of Erehia, LyccBxia, and other genera, and included 

 three species from Algeria not at present represented in the British Museum 

 Collection. Dr. Chapman exhibited, and made remarks on, two Butterflies taken 

 last July at Bejar, in West Central Spain, both notable as being very decidedly 

 larger than any forms of the same species recorded from any other locality. Ho 

 stated that one of them belonged to a form of LyccBna Anjiis (the L. lEgon of the 

 British list). They were taken about one and a half miles east or south-east of 

 Bejar on July 9th and following days. Ho said that ho proposed to name this form 

 var. bejarensis. Mr. R. South, four specimens of a large form of Ciipido minima 

 {LyccBna minima) frona Cumberland, sent to the Natui-al History Museum by 

 Mr. Mousley, of Buxton ; also, on behalf of Mr. J. II. Fowler, of Ringwood, a 

 series of LHhosia deplana, Esp., from the New Forest, showing interesting variations 

 in both sexes, but especially in the females. It was stated that Mr. Eustace Bankes 

 had recently recorded somewhat similar aberrations of the species from the Isle of 

 Purbeck. Mr. Hamilton Druce, a specimen of Limenitis populi, L., caught whilst 

 being chased by a small bird in July, 1901, near Riga, Russia ; also a specimen of 

 Sesamia no naff rio ides, Lefeb., bred from a larva found feeding in the interior {Jide 

 Fowler) of a banana. Mr. J. H. Carpenter, a gynandromorplious specimen of 

 Lycmna Icarus, having the coloration of the male on the left side and that of the 

 female on the right side, captured on Ranmore Common, Surrey, in June last ; also 

 several aberrations of this species from Ranmore Common and the Isle of Wight. 

 He also showed specimens of Vanessa Antiopa bred from Grerman larvEO, including 

 a remarkable aberration in which the usual blue spots on the upper wings were 

 entirely absent. Mr. H. St. J. Donisthorpe, a foreign specimen of i^uedius 

 suturalis, lent him by Mr. Keys, of Plymouth, and a British specimen taken by 

 himself at Gravesend in 1891 ; also for comparison a specimen of Quedius ohliteratus 

 taken at Plymouth. He said that most of the specimens of, so called, Quedius 

 suturalis in British collections were really Q. obliteratus. Mr. Pickett, a remarkable 

 series of Anyeronu prunaria, the result of four years' intcr-bi-eeding between dark 

 males from Raindean Wood, near Folkestone, and light-coloured females from 

 Epping Forest; also unicolorous light orange-yellow males, light yellow females, 

 dark orange males sprinkled with black, and other unusual aberrations. Professor 

 E. B. Poulton, F.R.S., a series of lantern slides prepared from negatives taken by 

 his assistant, Mr. A. H. Hamm, of the Hope Department, and Mr. Alfred Robinson, 

 of the Oxford University Museum. The slides represented a series of the larvue 

 and imagines of British moths photogi-aphed under natural conditions. Mr. Hamm's 

 photographs of moths clearly showed the attitude of the insect in relation to the 

 background which it had selected. Mr. Robinson's photographs similarly repre- 

 sented the larvae of species of British moths in their natural attitudes upon the 

 food-plants. He also showed a representation of the pupa of Limenitis populi 

 prepared ftom Portschinski's figure and description, and explained the highly 

 ingenious hypothesis by which the appearances are accomited for by the Russian 

 naturalist. Mr. C. 0. Waterhouse communicated a paper by Mr. L. R. Crawshay, 

 entitled, " On the Life History of Drilus Jlavescens, Rossi." — H. Goss, Hon. Sec. 



