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paler than tlie ordinary pale form, and were suffused with pink. Di- 

 cranura fiircula was bred from one of two larvae found on the same 

 aspens, by Mr. Salvage ; this was the first time Mr. Salvage had seen 

 this species at Eannoch, altliougli he had worked the locality for 15 or 

 20 years. Cymatopliorn or was bred from larvae found on aspen ; they 

 spend the day between two leaves spun together, coming out to feed at 

 night ; the imagines are much smaller than those received from Win- 

 chester, and their fore wings are suffused with a pink or pale mauve 

 tint. One female Stilbia anomala, was taken on the wing in the 

 afternoon ; it seemed to have a tendency to fly round in a circle, and 

 its movements Avere exceedingly rapid. Pupte of Taeniocampa (jothica, 

 yielded in tlie following spring, an interesting series of imagines, which 

 vary considerably^ both in colovir and in the usually dark central mark ; 

 in some of tlie specimens the mark is practically unicolorous with the 

 rest of the wing. Are these the true var. gothicina ? * Sugar was an 

 entire failure. Of GEOMKTRiE : Larentia didymata swarmed in every 

 locality visited, the specimens being smaller and darker than the ordi- 

 nary southern type. Larentia caesiaia was also common, both at 

 Eannoch and in the Shetlands ; it Avas very diflficult to discover, owing 

 to its perfect resemblance to the rocks and stones on which it rested ; 

 the Shetland specimens are much more strongly marked, and have a 

 much darker median band than those from Rannoch. Larentia riifi- 

 rinctata, of which a fair numlier were taken, also rests on the rocks at 

 considerable elevations on the mountain sides, and is so exactly like a 

 yellow lichen which grows freely on the rocks, that the practised eye 

 is necessary to detect it. The variation of Melanthia ridiiginata in 

 Scotland is considerable ; a form occurs not infrequently in which 

 the fore wings, and to a less extent the hind Avings, are suffused Avith 

 black. Cidaria populata Av^as fairly common on the mountain sides 

 flying over the heather ; in some of the specimens the Aving-markings 

 were almost obliterated by a dark suffusion. Cidaria immanata Avas 

 perhaps the most A-ariable insect met Avith, in fact, no two specimens 

 Avere exactly alike ; the median area A^aried in colour from jet black to 

 pure Avhite ; in the Shetland Isles a form is taken wliich is entirely 

 different from any of those met Avith at Eannoch. 



Jan. IGth, 1894. — Exhil)its : — Mr. Hill; a specimen of Catocala 

 sponsa, haA'ing a suffusion of black scales near the apical angle of the 

 left hind Aving. Mr. Battley ; Cheiinatohia hrnmata, of both sexes, the 

 Avings of the males shoAving considerable variation in the distinctness 

 of the transA'erse lines. Mr. Clark ; Mixodia palustrana from Perth ; 

 also a specimen of Selenia hmaria, bred on Christmas Day. Mr. 

 Nicholson ; two larvfe of Pararge aegeria, about half-an-inch long, from 

 a brood which is now hybernating indoors, on grass groAving in a 

 floAver-pot. Mr. Bacot ; living pupa? of Taeniocampa luuada. Mr. 

 Eiches ; Agrotis segetnm, Mellinia circellaris and Anchocelin ]>istacina, irom. 

 Salisbury ; the circellaris Avere rather dark. Mr. Soutliey ; a fine series 

 of Nonagria arundinitt (typhae) from Norfolk. Mr. Lane ; Leucophasia 

 sinapis from Eeading, and Abraxax grossnlariata. Mr. E. II. Taylor, 

 of 52, Mimosa Street, Fiilham, was elected a member of the Society. 



* For account of var. gothicina see Britisli Nor.tuce and their Varieties, vol. ii. 

 pp. 148-151.— Ed. 



