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recorded having observed an extraordinary number of lepidoptera 

 round the electric lamps in Amherst Park in July, sixty species 

 being counted round one lamp. — October 11th, 1911. — Abraxas 

 GRossuLARiATA, ABs. — Rev. C. R. N. Burrows exhibited a number 

 of aberrant examples, mostly bred from larvffi collected at Mac- 

 clesfield and Wallasey ; these included a specimen of ab. laeti- 

 color (Raynor) with basal area of superiors suffused with black, also 

 ab. fulvapicata (Raynor) and others with increase of black marking. 

 Zyg.enid^. — Mr. E. A. Cockayne, a number of five and six spotted 

 specimens of somewhat doubtful identity, from a colony found in a 

 field in Berkshire which produced both forms in June, 1911. Peronea 

 VARiEGANA. — Mr. J. E. Gardner, a very variable series mostly collected 

 in a garden at Clapton. Oedeiiatophorus lithodactylus. — Mr. G. H. 

 Heath, a series from S. Wales showing colour variation parallel to 

 that occurring in Eiumelina iiionodacti/la. Amoepha populi. — -Mr. 

 L. W. Newman, along series bred from selected Bexley parents ranging 

 from pink flushed forms to pale cream coloured, and including two 

 hermaphrodites, of which ten were bred from one thousand pupae. 

 Angerona prunaria — EFFECT OF ENVIRONMENT. — Mr. C. P. Pickett, some 

 half do2;en series, mostly from the same brood, reared ab ovu under 

 different coloured muslins ; the series as shown displayed marked 

 differences in coloration which the exhibitor attributed to the varying 

 environment. Coenonympha pamphilus ab. — Mr. J. Riches, a dingy 

 brown specimen with pale patch in marginal area of inferiors, Lewes, 

 August 1911. Colias edusa, vars. — Mr. A. J. Willsdon, specimens 

 from Plymouth and Torquay, 1900, including 2 without usual yellow 

 patches on black margin of superiors, and the lemon coloured form of 

 var. lielice. Mr. Willsdon recalled having captured a freshly emerged 

 C. hi/ale early in June of the following year. Colias hyale. — Mr. L. 

 W. ISlewman reported that $ s taken in September and kept for ova 

 showed no inclination to lay and seemed disposed to hybernate. 

 Pyrameis cardui and Agrius convolvuli. Short larval period. — 

 Mr. Newman recorded that by feeding up larvfe in a hothouse he had 

 secured the completion of this stage in three weeks for the former and 

 twenty six days for the latter. 



Entomological Society of London.— Ortofter Ath, 1911.- — Mr. C. B. 

 Williams, 20, Slatey Road, Birkenhead, was elected a Fellow of the 

 Society. Votes of condolence were passed with the relatives of the late 

 Mr. Verrall and of the late Mr. Albert Harrison who were Fellows, 

 and of Mr. Scudder, who was an Honorary Fellow, all the Fellows 

 standing. Ants from Rannoch. — Mr. Donisthorpe exhibited specimens 

 (^ s and ^ s) of Formica pratensis, De. G. [eongerens, Nyl.), taken at 

 Rannoch in June, also ^ s of F. samiidnea captured in the same 

 region, a new locality for it ; and 5 s and ^ s of a new race of 

 Formica riifa, also from Rannoch. Black Melanargia galathea. — 

 Mr. Bethune-Baker exhibited a specimen of Melanan/ia f/alathea var. 

 lui/ens, taken at Digne in July last. It is an entirely dark brown 

 (almost black) form, with no white markings, though the ordinary 

 markings are just traceable in a slightly lighter shade. A remarkable 

 Oxytelus. — Mr. Norman H. Joy exhibited a remarkable specimen of 

 0.ri/teli(s taken at Tresco, Scilly Isles, April 1908. In many respects 

 it is quite intermediate in character between 0. sciilptus and 

 0. laqueatus, Marsh., and is probably a species new to science, but may 



