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ab. sc'di, Hadoia conthiua, Caradrina tdra.raci, AnclioccHs nifina, 

 Purt/u'sia siniilis, etc. ; also an aberration of Abraxas //rassulariata, with 

 very strong black and orange markings, and a female aberration of 

 Atiiphidasi/s hctidan'a, in which the usual black peppering was absent, 

 the whitish ground colour, with only the traces of the ordinary trans- 

 verse lines, giving the specimen a strange appearance. The type 

 occurs in the Isle of Man. Bombyx quercus and Bombyx callun.e. — 

 Capt. Thompson re-opened the discussion on these insects, and said 

 that he had, since he read his paper in May last, looked up the 

 Zoohii/ist, 1847, for Palmer's description of B. callnnae, but found that, 

 although there was a very complete description of the early stages, 

 there was no mention of the imago. The antennae, however, were 

 somewhat fully dealt with. Mr. J. C. Warburg stated that the data 

 given by Palmer did not prove to be correct when a number of 

 specimens were carefully examined. Mr. Warburg exhibited a very 

 long series of B<»iihi/j- qiicn-m and Bdwbj/.v spartii, from Cannes. He 

 stated that he had separated the larva? by certain markings mentioned 

 by Milliere, Constant and Guenee, as being characteristic, but that 

 certain larvae might be classed with either group, and, as a result, he 

 failed to find any clear distinction between the imagines bred from the 

 larvae thus selected. Mr. W. Hewett, of York, sent a very interesting 

 series of specimens, consisting of— (1) nine female caUnnac, all bred 

 specimens, selected from a great number of females, and including a 

 very striking pale aberration, another without the whitish band on 

 the hind-wings, also a male with the bands sufi'used with olive 

 colour ; (2) eight male calhumc, bred, and two male ijucrcm, one from 

 Beverley, Yorks, and the other from York ; also a half-grown larva 

 of callunae, and two cocoons of calhinai . Mr. Hewett notes : — " I do 

 not possess any cocoons of B. quercus, but those that I have seen have 

 been lighter than those of i>. caUunae. Mr, Nicholson exhibited a 

 series of 1 c? and 6 $ , undoubted quercm, bred from a female, taken, 

 newly emerged, on a gate-post on top of the clifi's, at Overstrand, 

 near Cromer, 26th July, 1894 ; 4 males, attracted by her, were 

 also shown ; also a pair of Yorkshire caUunac, and a specimen 

 taken flying over a heathy bit of land at Ringwood, Hants, 

 probably in August, 1880. The date of this capture was uncer- 

 tain, but Mr. Nicholson remembered that Hipparchia t:i'iiu'h' was on 

 the wing, and in good condition, when the specimen was taken. This 

 specimen united several of the characteristics supposed to distinguish 

 quercns and callunae. Also a series of one <? and six $ , undoubted 

 caUunae, bred from a female, captured at dusk, while ovipositing, 

 flying along a grassy, herbage-covered bank between two fields, at 

 Pwllheli, N, Wales, July 17th, 1895. There was no moorland or 

 heathy ground near, and the land round about was only a foot or 

 two above sea-level. The larvje of both broods were hatched about 

 the same time after the eggs were laid, and were treated in exactly 

 the same way, being kept indoors in a warm room, and fed at first 

 on willow, bramble, and hawthorn, and afterwards on privet and ivy, 

 till full fed. The qiieiriis pupated during January, 1895, and the 

 first imago (a female) appeared on June 4th, 1895. The callunae 

 had all pupated before Christmas, 1895, and the first imago (a 

 female) emerged April 4th, 1896. A good many larvit of botli broods 

 died, and only about a dozen cocoons in each case were produced ; 



