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  Mr. 
  Barnetfc 
  exhibited 
  a 
  series 
  of 
  Aricia 
  medon 
  {astrarche), 
  taken 
  

   at 
  Chipstead 
  in 
  July 
  last. 
  The 
  underside 
  of 
  the 
  forewings 
  in 
  one 
  

   example 
  was 
  striated. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  B, 
  W. 
  Adkin 
  exhibited 
  a 
  series 
  of 
  Niso7iiades 
  tac/es, 
  including 
  

   a 
  remarkable, 
  light 
  khaki-coloured 
  form 
  and 
  some 
  finely 
  marked 
  

   female 
  examples. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Sperring 
  exhibited 
  a 
  series 
  of 
  eight 
  specimens 
  of 
  Abraxas 
  

   grossidariata 
  bred 
  from 
  wild 
  collected 
  larvfe, 
  July, 
  1918, 
  Aberdeen, 
  

   all 
  being 
  gradations 
  of 
  the 
  dark 
  suffused 
  local 
  race. 
  He 
  also 
  

   exhibited 
  two 
  specimens 
  from 
  South-East 
  London, 
  bred 
  from 
  wild 
  

   collected 
  larvae, 
  and 
  previously 
  exhibited, 
  inserted 
  for 
  comparison 
  

   purposes 
  between 
  the 
  Scotch 
  and 
  southern 
  wild 
  race 
  to 
  illustrate 
  

   that 
  the 
  specimens 
  from 
  the 
  south 
  in 
  some 
  cases 
  are 
  even 
  darker 
  

   than 
  the 
  northern 
  ; 
  and 
  also 
  one 
  specimen 
  of 
  the 
  aberration 
  fulva- 
  

   picata, 
  with 
  a 
  dark 
  banded 
  specimen, 
  both 
  from 
  wild 
  collected 
  

   South-East 
  London 
  larvae. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Sperring 
  exhibited 
  ten 
  specimens 
  of 
  Arctia 
  caia, 
  bred 
  from 
  

   wild 
  collected 
  larvae 
  in 
  South-East 
  London 
  in 
  July, 
  1918 
  :— 
  1, 
  A 
  

   suffused 
  female 
  with 
  orange 
  hindwings 
  ; 
  2, 
  ditto 
  male 
  ; 
  3, 
  female 
  in 
  

   which 
  tbe 
  white 
  predominates 
  over 
  the 
  dark 
  markings 
  ; 
  4, 
  banded 
  

   male, 
  otherwise 
  normal; 
  5, 
  female 
  with 
  asymmetrical 
  markings 
  ; 
  6, 
  

   female 
  with 
  banded 
  forewings; 
  7, 
  8, 
  9, 
  and 
  10, 
  three 
  males 
  and 
  one 
  

   female 
  with 
  orange 
  hindwings. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  F. 
  B. 
  Carr 
  exhibited 
  a 
  series 
  of 
  A;inades 
  coridon 
  taken 
  at 
  

   Eoyston 
  this 
  year, 
  including 
  specimens 
  of 
  ab. 
  roystonensis, 
  ab. 
  semi- 
  

   symirapha, 
  specimens 
  approaching 
  closely 
  to 
  ab. 
  syngraplia, 
  and 
  

   several 
  very 
  nicely 
  marked 
  underside 
  aberrations. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Dennis 
  exhibited 
  some 
  beads 
  of 
  the 
  common 
  rush, 
  Jimciis 
  

   covn>iunis, 
  on 
  which 
  the 
  very 
  young 
  larvte 
  of 
  Coleophora 
  cmpititiella 
  

   were 
  feeding, 
  in 
  their 
  comparatively 
  large, 
  newly 
  made, 
  and 
  con- 
  

   spicuously 
  white 
  cases. 
  

  

  Messr. 
  H. 
  Moore 
  and 
  Hy. 
  J. 
  Turner 
  exhibited 
  a 
  large 
  number 
  of 
  

   species 
  of 
  Japanese 
  Khopalocera. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Hy. 
  J. 
  Turner 
  read 
  a 
  few 
  " 
  Notes 
  on 
  the 
  Butterflies 
  of 
  

   Japan." 
  (See 
  page 
  22.) 
  

  

  Messrs. 
  B. 
  Adkin 
  and 
  A. 
  W. 
  Buckstone 
  called 
  attention 
  to 
  the 
  

   second 
  flowering 
  of 
  the 
  broom 
  this 
  year 
  in 
  July 
  and 
  August. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Frohawk 
  called 
  attention 
  to 
  the 
  scarcity 
  of 
  butterflies 
  in 
  

   Essex 
  this 
  autumn, 
  and 
  also 
  said 
  that 
  many 
  varieties 
  had 
  been 
  re- 
  

   ported 
  from 
  the 
  New 
  Forest 
  this 
  season, 
  especially 
  remarkable 
  

   aberrations 
  and 
  gynandromorphs 
  of 
  Dryas 
  paplda 
  and 
  Lituenitis 
  

   sibilla. 
  

  

  