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late afternoon. Mr. South, on behalf of Mr. Burkell, exhibited two well executed 

 coloured drawings of varieties of Smerinthus tilice, L. Mr. Adkin enquired if all 

 the species of Pieris were well represented, as he had not seen napi ; Fieris brassicce 

 was, he observed, abundant, rapce not equally so, and napi exceedingly scarce. 

 Mr. Tutt remarked that his son had met with the latter species freely quite recently, 

 and Mr. South stated that he still had a pupa which had been in that stage for 

 three months. 



September 8fh, 1892. — J. Jennee Weir, Esq., F.L.S., Vice-President, in the 

 Chair. 



Mr. Mark Winkley exhibited a beautiful variety of Catocala nupta, L., with the 

 hind-wings pale brown shot with purple. Mr. Froliawk, Satyrus Semele, L., 

 bred from ova. Mr. Fenn, a long series of Cidaria truncata, Hufn., bred from 

 female taken at Chattenden, and showing three distinct forms ; also Colias JSdusa, 

 Fb., with a broad black band in a female specimen, and another with faint yellow 

 dots on the band. Mr. Tugwell, a very nice series of Spilosoma lubricipeda 

 Esp., with their Yorkshire parents, and which he stated had only been in pupa 

 three weeks. Mr. H. Moore brought a box of grasshoppers collected in Spain. 

 Mr. Carpenter, a specimen of Sirex juvencus taken in Belsize Park, N.W. Mr. J. 

 Jenner Weir exhibited specimens of Vanessa cardui, L., which he had reared from 

 larv83 collected in July last at Westgate, the chrysalids immediately after metamor- 

 phosis had been subjected to a temperature of 57° Fahr., and the result was the 

 imagines were much darker than usual, this was brought about by the black occupying 

 an extended area, and the row of fine spots on the under-wings being not only in- 

 creased in size but often confluent ; he also exhibited a specimen of Epinephile 

 Janira, L., taken at Westgate, which had a well defined ocellus on the upper-side 

 of the lower wing. Mr. Frohawk stated that he had never noticed an ocellus in 

 the species on the lower wings before. Mr. Manger, a longicorn taken 50 miles at 

 sea off Borneo, also Vanessa cardui, L., taken at sea 30 miles from Algiers, and a 

 Cicada 25 miles off Point-de-Gralle, Ceylon. 



September 22nd, 1892.— C. G. Baerett, Esq., F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. R. Adkin exhibited Oxyptilus distans, Zell., and O. pilosellcB, Zell., taken 

 near Dover this summer ; also, on behalf of Mrs. Hutchinson, of Leominster, a 

 small collection of Micro-Lepidoptera from Cornwall, including Diasemia literata, 

 Scop., and a remarkably brightly marked small form of JSerbula cespitalis, Schiff., 

 said to be exceedingly local. Mr. South, a variable series of Grapholitha cinerana, 

 Haw., taken on the borders of Middlesex between Northwood and Rickmansworth, 

 also O. nisella, Clerck, and the varieties pavonana, Don., Boeberana, Fab., and rhombi- 

 fasciana, Haw. ; two examples of petrana, Hiib., = cuspidana, Haw., a form which 

 was generally considered to be a variety of nisella, were found with cinerana : as the 

 basal patch of these specimens agreed with that of cinerana, he was inclined to 

 think that petrana was a form of cinerana rather than of nisella. Mr. Fenn, a fine 

 series of Orgyia antiqua, L., with dark forms. Mr. McArthur, the life-history of 

 Sesia scoliiformis, Bork., from Rannoch, also Hepialus humuli, L., from the Shet- 

 lands, the whole of the series having the normal colours of the under-wings replaced 

 by a deep grey. Mr. Frohawk referred to the small white spot on the red band 

 which was generally thought to indicate the female of Vanessa Afalanfa, but he 



