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stramiueo-albiclis nee fulvis ornatae." It will be observed from this 

 that Birchall gives the coloration of the males as "nigrae," of the 

 females as " fuscae." It will be also noticed that, of the three Cromlyn 

 specimens exhibited, the male is much the blacker and the females 

 the more fulvous. As to the criticism of Mr. Kane (Ent., xxvi., 

 p. 141), that Birchall makes the hind-wings " ornamented neither 

 with pale straw-coloured nor fulvous patches," it appears to me that 

 Mr. Birchall says : " the posterior wings as in the type, but 

 ornamented with straw-white, not fulvous patches," Mr. Kane having 

 added a " nee " to the original to get his reading. In the Ejit. Mo. 

 Ma//., X., p. 154, Mr. Birchall refers to a coloured plate obtainable 

 from him privately, in Avhich var. hibernica is figured with the 

 English, and what he considers the Scotch form. I have never seen 

 this plate, but Mr. Kane, referring to it, writes : — " The plate shows 

 clearly that ' fulvis ' should be ' stramineis ' in the Latin description 

 of the male. That of the female does not agree with the plate in the 

 latter, having the straw-coloured patches." This, I take it, makes the 

 figure agree with the description. The Cromlyn male is very dark, 

 and would do for Birchall's hihcrniva, but hardly satisfies Birchall's 

 statement that "there are many other whitish-yellow spots in the 

 centre of the wing ; " it strikes me, indeed, as being an exceptionally 

 dark aberration, even of the race Birchall described, with which, how- 

 ever, it agrees in the " very inconspicuous " extreme marginal spots of 

 the hind-wing. In the females, the fulvous colour is much better 

 developed than in the var. Ncotica. From an examination of these 

 specimens, and careful consideration of Mr. Kane's remarks, we 

 must assume that xav. praeclara, Kane, is in Ireland (as the type, which 

 is of a less brilliant colour, is, in England) the commonest form ; 

 and that the ab. hibernica is a form more nearly approaching var. 

 scotica, differing from the latter mainly in the great development of 

 the reddish fulvous areas. The Cromlyn male must, I think, be 

 looked upon as an aberrant specimen of the same race. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History Society, 

 January 9th, 1896. — Mr. Carpenter exhibited a long series of Coliaa 

 eilma, bred from ova deposited by a female captured in August, 1895. 

 The last emerged during the third week in November. Mr. Mansbridge, 

 a series of Hi/hemia )na>yi)iaria, consisting of the typical London 

 forms and a long series of melanic and variegated forms from York. 

 A long discussion took place on the occurrence of these melanic 

 forms. Mr. Mera, a series of Aijnupis aprilina, from Elgin and 

 Sussex. The northern specimens possessed very complete dark bands. 

 Mr. Edwards, Papilio cencn, Stoll., and the three forms of its female, 

 viz., rcnea, Stoll., kipjuicoon, Fb., and tnipJioniiis, Westw., with 

 intermediate forms ; the three species of Banaidae mimicked by the 

 above, riz., Amanrix echcria, A. ilnminicanu>< and Daiiais c/iri/sipjiios ; 

 the closely allied species 7'. Dicriuncs, male, from Madagascar, and 

 7*. mcrope, male and female from W. Africa, with Aniauris ntarim, 

 which the latter mimicked ; and also Diadeina viisippufi and 7). 

 anthedun, which mimic 7>. rhnjsipims and A. d(i))ii)iica}i2is respec- 

 tively. 



Entomological Society of London. — The Sixty-third Annual 

 Meeting was held on January 15th, 1896, when Professor Meldola 

 delivered an Address, in which attention was called to the interesting 



