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owing to the struggles. This could easily be observed if the insects 

 were placed together in a small box. He also exhibited an ASYMJiiiTRicAL 

 FORM OF CoREsiiA DESiGNATA froui Eanuiore, having the band of the 

 right primary narrower than usual, and filled in completely with the 

 dark colour. The inner margin of the band was more straight than in 

 normal specimens. Mr. Mansbridge : an abkrkation of Syrichthus 

 MALV/E, having a notch at the apex of all the wings in which the cilia 

 were present, but shorter than usual. A discussion ensued, some 

 members considering it to be caused by an injury to the pupa, and 

 others thought that the cilia were shorter than usual, and that the 

 proximity of the white patch somewhat accentuated the appearance of 

 the notch. Mr. Edwards, a specimen of the rare Papilio danm-pa from 

 the Khasia Hills, and a short series of Lcptocircus curius. He then 

 read a few notes on the veky aberrant gknus of the Papiuonin^ — 

 Leptocikcus. After envnnerating the species, and stating the 

 characters by which it differed from the other genera of the family, 

 he described its distribution, and quoted the opinions of various 

 collectors that the species were mimics of a species of Neuroptera, both 



in their appearance and habits. On June 25th, Mr. West, of 



Streatham, exhibited a bred series of Hypsipetes ruberata, containing 

 uniform and banded specimens, and a specimen of Trochilium crabroni- 

 forme, bred from an osier stem, cut at Streatham, in expectation of 

 obtaining Seaia formicaeforwis. Mr. R. Adkin : a bred series of 

 EupiTHEciA venosata FROM HoY, with serles from Shetland, Forres, 

 and I. of Man, for comparison, and noted that the Orkney ones were 

 of a browner shade, Avhile the I. of Man specimens were like S. 

 of England netted forms ; also full-fed lakv^ of Calocampa 

 VETUSTA, reared on dock, from Invernesshire ova. Mr. Barrett : A 

 series of the rare Osmylus chrysops from Haslemere. Mr, South : 

 types of the aberrations of Spilosoma menthastri, obtained from a 

 brood of the insect from Aberdeen. Several were smoky, one had 

 dark fringes, in another the edges of all the black markings had run 

 in appearance. Mr. McArthur : the five most remarkable forms of 

 Abraxas grossulariata, bred this year from some 3,000 larvae. In one 

 the black, external to the yellow band, was almost entirely suffused, 

 another was slightly smoky, and the spots had the appearance of 

 having run ; a third had the fore-wings almost entirely black, with the 

 outer half of the hind-wings wholly black ; another had the hind-wings 

 with a narrow black border, from the middle of which a wide streak 

 ran into the centre of the wing. The smoky form was remarked as 

 being very rare. Mr. Dennis : a series of Ccenonympha typhon from 

 N. Lancashire, taken early in June. The specimens had very pure 

 white markings underneath, referable to var. rothliebii {= pJiiloxemix, 

 Esp., ride, ante, vol. vii., p. 107, for proper use of this varietal name. -Ed.). 

 Also he exhibited several very brilliant Ci/aniris aniiolm from 

 Horsley, of a shade approaching that of Pob/owmatiis bellarf/ii^. 

 Members reported that Limenitis sibylla was flying in the New Forest 

 early in June. 



City of London Entomological and Natural History Society. — 

 June IGth, 1896.— Exhibits :— Mr. Tutt : Ova of Trochilium ora- 

 broniforme, sent by Dr. Chapman. He distributed some of the eggs, 

 which were laid on the underside of willow-leaves, near the mid-rib ; 

 he suggested that the larva probably mines the leaf or young shoots 



