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a small race of Erebia ceto, E. mnestra, E. gorge, E. lapfona, (Eneis a'ello, very 

 silvery Argynnis niobe, a Ihree-spotted ^ of Epinephele lycaon, and a curious 

 aberration of Brenthis euphrosyne. The remainder of the evening was devoted 

 to the exhibition of lantern slides by Messrs. Dennis, West (Ashtead), Tonge, 

 and Main. 



Thursday, November 'IQth, 1908. — The President in the Chair. 



The Annual Exhibition of Varieties. 



Mr. Adlai'd, Bartholomew Close, E.C., was elected a Member. 



Mr. South showed series of Cerastis vaccinii and C. ligula from the con- 

 tinent, and discussed at length the various forms and named varieties, comparing 

 them with British examples ; he also exhibited the CiicuUia species previously shown, 

 stating that upon examination of the genitalia by Mr. Pierce, three of the five con- 

 tinental (J s were found to be C. lychnitis and two C. verbascl, and one bred from 

 a larva found feeding on Scrophularia nodosa in North Kent, proved to be C. ver- 

 hasci also. Messrs. Harrison and Main, an extensive bred series of Aplecta nebulosa 

 with a large proportion of var. robsoni and var. thompsoni, and gave notes and 

 statistics of the results. They also showed a bred gynandrous specimen of Pieris 

 najji, left side J , right side ? . Mr. R. Adkin, series of Boarmia gemmaria {rhoin- 

 boidaria), comprising typical and black forms reared from wild ova in 1907-8, and 

 a portion of Edward Newman's series of the same species and of var. perfumaria, 

 and discussed the last named form ; he also showed Anthrocera achillex from 

 Argyllshire, Nola albulalis from East Sussex, 1908, a variety of Chrysophaiius 

 phlxas of a coppery shade with the red band reduced to narrow bars, an example 

 of Aylais urtiai' with very large blue lunules and tips of fore-wings streaked with 

 pale blue-grey, together with a case containing pupa skins in situ of several of the 

 rarer Sesiidx, resinous nodules with cocoons of Retinia resinella, one of which had 

 been appropriated by a larva of Dioryctria abietella, cocoons of Nola centoiialis 

 and of Hylophila bicolorana, and Zenillia roseanae, a Dipterous parasite on the 

 larva of Tortrix pronubana new to Britain. Mr. G. T. Porritt, varieties of Abraxas 

 grossulariata bred from Huddersfield wild larvae of this year, including an ab. var- 

 leyata in which there was a double row of white rays on the hind-wings. "Mr. Newman, 

 a long series of Grapta c-album and var. hutchinsoni bred from ova, and read full 

 notes on the life-history ; he also showed hand paintings of the finest varieties bred 

 and captured by him during the season, and an almost perfectly black extreme form 

 of A. grosmlariata, the under-wings alone showing slight traces of white. Mr. W. 

 Crocker, Fhryxus /ivornica from Torquay 5.06, a fawn-coloured Gnophos obscuraria 

 from Babbacombe, a very varied series of Ilesperia nialvx var. taras,\Leucania 

 extranea, taken at sallow 4.06, and varieties of Melitiea athalia and M. aurinia. 

 Mr. Hy. J. Turner, extremes in size of Pol.yommatus danion from the Alps, a 

 number of species of the genus Brenthis in which the submarginal spots and 

 lunules were more or less coalescent, a nice series of Satyrus cordula from Vissoye 

 with ^ var. poeas, and a box containing numerous species of Rhopalocera from 

 German East Africa and from Bike in Central Africa. Mr. Lucas, the large aerwi-', 

 abidura riparia, which he had kept alive for some months, feeding it on fish. 

 Mr. Tonge, Sirex noctilio taken in his house at Reigate. Air. Edelsten, a long 



