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mens of this rare species were taken off Pinua by Mr. Sich, near 

 Hailsham, on June 15th of this year. Two of these were exhibited. 

 Plebeius ARGUS (.^gon) var. hypochiona : Specimens exhibited by 

 Mr. A. H. Jones from the Kent downs, taken this year. They are 

 larger and brighter than the heath form, with a narrower border on 

 upperside of forewings, and a paler and brighter ground-colour to the 

 underside. HAMjiERscHivimTiA ferruginea at Nethy Bridge : Col. 

 Yerbury exhibited 3 <? s and 3 5 s taken this year at rest on aspen logs ; 

 the first authentic British examples. Microdon latifroxs at Nethy 

 Bridge : Also one specimen of this speeies taken June 19th, 1900 

 (wrongly identified and recorded as M. (Jt'ni(s) , and another taken this year. 

 Only four British examples are known. Chajlesyophus sc.evoides and 

 Cymorrhina fallax in Scotland : Specimens of the former taken June 

 loth, 1905, in Abernethy Forest, also examples of the latter taken in 

 numbers at Nethy Bridge, the same month, were exhibited by Col. 

 Yerbury. (October 18th, 1905. — Erebia lefebvrei and its allies. — 

 Mr. Rowland -Brown exhibited 7*7. Icfebwei (once supposed to be the 

 Pyrenean form of E. iiwlas) and var. pi/renaea, captured on Mt. Canigou 

 in the E. Pyrenees, also var. intermedia from Gavarnie. For comparison 

 he showed E. ulacialis var. nicJioUi from Campiglio, at one tinae 

 confused with E. lefebvrei, and also referred to E. melas. Dr. 

 Chapman handed round a diagram of the genital clasps of <? E. 

 lefebrrei and /.'. melan, and pointed out that those of E. lefebvrei 

 approached those of E. pronoe and E. neoridas, whilst those of E. 

 melas were practically identical with those of E. nerine. Erebia 

 gorgone and E. gorge. — Mr. Rowland-Brown also showed E. (ion/one 

 and E. nor'jc from the Lac de Gaube, Cauterets and Gavarnie. He 

 pointed out that whereas E. (jonie appeared to be confined to the stony 

 detritus just below the snow line, where it fleAV with E. lefebrrei, E. 

 j/ori/one was found on the green pastures at an altitude of only about 

 6000ft., at which elevation it occurred in some numbers on July 23rd, 

 1905, in the Val d'Estaube. Dr. Chapman drew attention to the 

 remarkable superficial resemblance of the underside of ? E. i/ori/one to 

 that of E. rfnante, a species not hitherto recorded from the Pyrenees. 



POLYOMMATUS ORBITULUS, P. VAR. OBERTHUERI, AND P. PYRENAICA. Mr. 



Rowland-Brown exhibited specimens of P. nrbitiilns from the central 

 Alps and Pyrenees, and its var. nberthiieri from the central Pyrenees, and 

 observed that P. ovhitulm from the Col de Paymorens closely resembled 

 the central Alpine form, whilst those from Gavarnie and the Lac de Gaube 

 were the darker and more robust var. oberthueri. In exhibiting P. jn/re- 

 naica and P. (irbitiilns (from the Pyrenees) and P. pheretes (from the 

 Tyrol) he remarked that there was shown a greater superficial affinity 

 between pi/re)iaica unA pherete.s than het^veen pt/renaira and orbitiiltis. At 

 Gavarnie J s of the two-last named were flying together the last week 

 of July, ? s apparently not emerged. Apion l.evigatum in Lowestoft 

 DISTRICT. — Eight specimens of this rare Apion were exhibited by Mr. 

 Bedwell, taken August 31st, under plants of Eehinm vuhjare. One c? 

 measured only limm. Mr. Walker said that one example was taken 

 at Oxford this year. Heliconius numata. — Mr. Kaye exhibited a long 

 variable series of this species from the Pataro river (British Guiana), 

 the series clearly proving that man}- forms described as subspecies by 

 Riffarth, Weymer, etc., were here merely aberrations. Lepidoptera 

 AT Majorca.— Mr. A. H. Jones exhibited lepidoptera taken in Majorca 



