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tera collected in June last near Digne, Basses Alpes, including Papilio 

 alexanor ; Parnassius apollo, larger and paler than the Swiss form ; 

 Anthocharis tagis var. belleziua ; Leiicophasia dupo?ic/ie/i ; Theda spini \ 

 Thecla ilicis var. cerri ; Lyaena argiades var. corretas ; L. bellargus var. 

 ceronus \ Melita\i deione ; and Argy'/mts eiiphrosyne. Mr. W. E. Nichol- 

 son also exhibited a collection ot Lepido[)tera, found near Digne last 

 June, which included very large specimens of Papilio luachaon ; P. 

 podalirius ; TJiais ruinina var. medesicaste, larger and redder than the 

 Mediterranean specimens ; Apatura ilia var. dytie ; Argynnis adippe 

 \2lX. cleodoxa \ A. daphne; Alelanargia galatea \zx. leucojuelas ; Vanessa 

 egea, bred from pellitory; Satyrus sewele, and many others. Mr. C. O. 

 Waterhouse exhibited the wings of a large species of Attacus, split in 

 halves longitudinally so as to show the upper and lower membranes. 

 Dr. D. Sharp exhibited a photograph he had received from Professor 

 Exner, of Vienna, showing the picture obtained at the back of the eye 

 of Lampyris splendidula. He stated that this picture is continuous and 

 not reversed, and shows the outlines of lights and shades of objects 

 at a distance as well as of those closer to the eye. Mr. H. Goss 

 exhibited a specimen of Zygxna filipejidnlte. var. c/irysanthenii, which 

 he had taken at Rhinefield, in the New Forest, on July 15th last. 

 Dr. P. B. Mason said this variety was known on the Continent 

 of Europe, and was tigured by Hiibner in his Sanunlung, a copy 

 of which work he exhibited. He added that he possessed a similar 

 specimen of this variety taken in Wyre Forest, Worcestershire. Colonel 

 Swinhoe stated that he possessed a similar variety of a species of Syntoinis. 

 The Rev. Dr. Walker exhibited a number of Diptera, Hymenoptera 

 and Coleopte'-a recently collected in Iceland ; also drawings illustrating 

 the various forms of Crynwdes exulis occurring in Iceland which he had 

 shown at the October meeting of the Society ; he also exhibited seven 

 varieties of Alelanippe thuleana, nine of Coreinia inunitata^ and a few of 

 JVoctiia conflua, illustrating the varied forms of these species occurring 

 in Iceland. Dr. Mason said that the only British specimens of N. conflua 

 which he had seen resembling the Iceland form of the species were 

 taken at Wolsingham, Durham. Mons. A. Wailly exhibited and re- 

 marked on a number of Lepidoptera from Japan. The collection 

 comprised about thirty species, eleven of which, it was stated, were not 

 represented in the British Museum collections. Mr. A. C. Horner 

 exhibited a number of rare species of Coleoptera, including Honialota 

 crassicornis, Gyll., H. humeralis, Kr., and Euryporus pidpes, Pk., 

 collected at Church Stretton, Shropshire ; and also specimens of ^///rtra 

 nitida, Sturm., Oxypoda atnieiia, Fair., Honialota testacespes, Heer, 

 Lithoceris apicalis, Kr., and Epunea negleda, Heer, from the neighbour- 

 hood of Tonbridge. Mr. Meyer Darcis exhibited a specimen of 

 Termitobia physogastra, Gangelb., a new genus and species oi Bradielytra 

 obtained in a white ants' nest. Dr. Sharp commented on the interesting 

 nature of the exhibition. Colonel Swinhoe exhibited a collection of 

 moths from Southern India, which comprised about forty species, 

 distributed amongst the following families : — Syniomidic, Liihosiidce, 

 Ardiidce, Lasiocanipidce, Zerenidcc, Fidonidcc, Leucanidw, Heliothidce^ 

 Aioiiiiidce, Poaphilidie, etc. He also read a paper describing these 

 species, entitled " New Species of Moths from Southern India." Tlie 

 Rev. T. A. Marshall communicated a paper entitled " A Monograph 



