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were Anosla <ireJN'}>2)ns and De/'opeia piilchella. Mr. Dennis; a specimen 

 of Vanessa lo, with a small additional ocellus on eacli hind wing, and a 

 smaller dark blotch below the central blotch on the fore wings. Mr. 

 Jenner Weir : Encheira socialis, Westwd., perhaps the most archaic 

 form of the Pierinae extant. Mr. Frohawk ; a l)red series of Argynnrs 

 eaphrosi/ne, which were nearly eleven months in the larval stage. Mr. 

 Manger; a land crab (Ocypoda cursor) iroin Lagos, which was so nimble, 

 that it conld only be obtained by sliooting it. Mr. Carrington ; the 

 eggs of a snail {Bulimns oblongus) from Trinidad ; these were so exceed- 

 ingly calcareous, that they might easily be mistaken for the eggs of a 

 bird. Mr. Adkin pointed out, and ilh;strated l)y examples of the several 

 species, the characters by Avhicli the closely allied sj^ecies miglit easily 

 be distinguished: — CramJuis t'ricelhis, C. dniuefellns, C. pratclJns, C. 

 iiii/ellus, C. pinellus, C fnrcatelli(s and C. marijariteUns. Mr. W. A. Pearce 

 exhibited the folloAving insects taken by himself in Alleghany, U.S.A., 

 in ly'J2-o : — Fi/raineis atalanta, P. hnnfera, Vanessa anfiopa, Poli/ijoiiia 

 /nfcrrotjafionis, P. romnia (both broods) ; also bred series of Tclca poli/- 

 }>lieinns and Samia cecropia. A discussion ensued Avith regard to the 

 gregariousness of the larvae of V. antiopa, the imagines being seldom 

 met with in company. — At the meeting on Feb. 22nd, j\[r. Jenner Weir 

 exliibited a new butterfly, belonging to the sub-family Enj)laeinae, which 

 h(^ liad described under the name of Cadttga erowlei/t. Mr. Carrington ; 

 a shell of Helix pomatia, cut to show the spiral and the smooth in- 

 ternal surface, Avhicli latter, he stated, was siliceous. Mr. Auld (for Mr. 

 Tngwell, in order to correct an error in the report of the meeting htdd 

 on .Ian. 11th) ; a series of the York City form of Sjrilosoina Inbricipeda. 

 fin- which Mr. Tugwell suggests the name var. ehoraci, also series of var. 

 znfinia, and of the selected brood originating fi'om Yorkshire, for whicli 

 he suggests the name var. fasciata. Mr. Fearce : Feniseca tarquinins ; 

 spring and summer l)roods of Li/caena psendargiohis ; L. roini/ntas and 

 Thecla edmardsii, all h-on\ Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Mr. South ; a specimen 

 of Argyunis aglaia, from Hamjishirc, which was a modification of x-av. 

 rharlotta, the silvery spots being converted into long streaks ; also f(n" 

 Mr. Rose, of Barnsloj', a bred series of Phygali'a j>edaria, of whicli some 

 were uniformly l)lack, without a trace of markings; for Mr. Fowler, of 

 Hingwood, a specimen of Euchelia jacobaeae, in which the costal stripe 

 Avas carried round the hind margin to meet the spot ; for Mr. Allis, of 

 York, a photograph of three s})ecinrens of S. Inbricipeda, in the Allis 

 collection at York, two of which were undoubtedly the zatima form, 

 although not extreme examjiles. 



At the meeting of the P>ii{jiingham Entomological Society on 

 January 15th, 1894, Mr. G. T. J>ethune-Baker exhibited Agrotis obsciira 

 i^r<ivida) from Wicken; three specimens of Tapinosiola C(yiicolor 

 taken near Wicken by AHiei't Houghton ; also a collection of 

 lepidoptera from the neighbourhood of Alexandria; these showed a 

 mingling of ^Mediterranean with Indo-Persian forms but there were no 

 true Ethiopian forms amongst them ; the collection contained twenty- 

 two species new to science and is probably the largest hitherto received 

 from Egypt. Mr. Bradley exhibited specimens of Andrena fnlva and 

 .1. cineraria, which had been dug up at Sutton Deeeml)er 2Sth, 1893, a 

 date at which they should liave been in the pu})al stage ; Mr. E. Saunders 

 had informed him that Mr. F. Enock had on one occasion dug up an 

 Andrena with a parasitic Nontada in December, but that he knew of no 



