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sand wasps and spiders, entitled " Further Notes on Indian Ants." 

 Mr. G. C. Champion read a paper entitled " A List of the Heteromerous 

 Coleoptera collected by Mr. J. J. Walker, R.N., in the neighbourhood 

 of Gibraltar, with descriptions of four new species." At the conclusion 

 of the meeting a discussion ensued, in which Mr. Kirby, Capt. Ehves, 

 Mr. M'Lachlan, Mr. Jenner Weir, Dr. Sharp, and Mr. Crowley took 

 part. — H. Goss, Hon. Sec. 



City of London Entomological and Natural History Society. — 

 March i()th, 1891. — Mr. HoUis exhibited a series of Odonestis potaforia, 

 bred from larvae taken at St. Leonards, some of the $ specimens being 

 intermediate in colour between the typically dark males and pale 

 females ; also a long series of vars. of Teras cojitamifiana. Mr. Battley, 

 specimens of Hybernia leiicophcearia^ Phigalia pilosaria, JVyssia 

 hispidaria, etc., taken in Richmond Park ; also four specimens of 

 Sinerinthiis tilicz, bred this spring in a greenhouse. He pointed out 

 that the specimens were very light in colour and almost entirely without 

 the pink tinge generally seen in this species. Mr. Clark exhibited the 

 specimens of .S. ////c? figured in the March number of the Entomologisfs 

 Record^ Mr. Battley reading the notes in the Record (vol. i., pp. 327, 

 328) referring to these specimens. Mr. Tutt drew attention to the fact, 

 that not only did the specimens show an almost perfect gradation from 

 the unspotted form, to one with a complete band, but that the great 

 interest of these specimens was in their asymmetrical character. He 

 also referred to Dr. Buckell's notes in a previous number of the E7itojii. 

 Record (yo\. i. p. 183), calling attention to asymmetry in the markings 

 of Zeuzera cesculi {pyri7ia), and suggested that the asymmetrical cha- 

 racter of the markings of lepidoptera was worthy of further study and 

 investigation. Mr. Clark also exhibited a box of Forres and Shetland 

 lepidoptera, containing a large number of most interesting species. 

 Mr. Tutt made some lengthy remarks on this exhibit, in which he drew 

 attention to a perfectly melanic variety of Lare?itia ccesiata, Hepialus 

 hamuli var. hethlandica., melanic varieties of Noctiia glareosa^ Pachnobia 

 hyperborea {alpina) and Noctua /estiva var. thiilei. Mr. Tutt also said 

 that his attention had lately been drawn to the genus Pachnobia, and 

 stated that hyberborea, although included in Guenee's genus Pach?iobia, 

 had been removed to Agrotis by Dr. Staudinger, and he thought its 

 affinities were rather with Agrotis than Tainiocampa. He also remarked 

 that the Shetland form oi festiva was often referred to as var. conjiua 

 instead of var. thulei. Mr. Clark, on behalf of the members of the 

 " Record Exchange Club," exhibited some very dark (almost melanic) 

 specimens of Liparis monacha, belonging to Mr. Reid of Fitcaple and 

 a dwarf form of Anchocelis litura belonging to Capt. Robertson, when 

 Mr. Tutt made some remarks on the var. eremita, and the appearance 

 of banded forms in the New Forest in certain years. Mr. Hodges 

 exhibited a long series of fine pale forms of Luperiiia testacea from the 

 Isle of Wight. Mr. Tutt exhibited a var. of this species taken by Mr. 

 Baxter at St. Anne's-on-Sea— the same specimen by means of which 

 Mr. South {Entotn. xxii., pp. 271, 272) had attempted to sink the 

 nickerlii of Freyer as a var. of testacea. Mr. Tutt, referring to Mr. 

 South's article, said that that gentleman had linked the specimen with 

 var. giieiieei {Entom. xxii., p. 271), but that the specimen before the 

 members, as might be seen, was wanting altogether in the black mark- 



