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dark suffused below, and an underside with ladditional spotting : of Pararge 

 aegeria, the British form egerides, and Cornish forms much like the S. European 

 form aegeria; of Pieris hrassicae, a $ with a pale blue tinge throughout. 

 Mr. Adkin, a short series of the hybrid Biston hirtaria $ X Nyssia laiyponaria $ 

 and gave notes on the mixture of the two specific series of characteristics. 

 Mr. Moore, Manduca ntropos from S. Africa. Mr. Curwen, long series of 

 Polyommatus eros and Latiorina orbitulus from Saas-im-Grund and the Orisons 

 respectively. Mr. B. S. Williams, larvae of Odezia atrata on Cytisus, and a very 

 varied sei'ies of Xanthorhoi- fluct^iata with ab. neapolisata from Finchley. 

 Mr. Cowham, cases of the large Psychid, OeTceticus platensis, examples of the 

 Neotropical Colias lesbia, a large and conspicuously marked " skipper" Pyrrlio- 

 pyga sp., and an Arctiid, Ecpantheria sp. Mr. Barrett, a large number of Lepi- 

 doptera, mainly from Sicily, and read notes on the variation ; they inckided 

 Thais polyxena, Pontia daplidice, Anthocharis helia, Euchloc cardamines, with 

 their racial, seasonal, and aberrational forms. Mr. Dennis, photographs of the 

 ant Formica pratensis, a species closely allied to F. rufa. Mr. Stallman, a 

 Taeniocampa gothica ? with right hind-wing reproducing the markings of the 

 fore-wing on the uppei"-side, from Holmwood. Mr. B. Adkin, Lepidoptera from 

 Loch Lomond, dark suffused Brcnthis selene and Biacrisia sannio, a white suffused 

 under-side of Coenonympha pamphilus, etc. Mr. A. Sich read a paper, " Notes 

 on Tortrix viridana," on which a short discussion took place. 



Thursday, May 27th, 1915.— Mr. B. H. Smith, B.A., P.E.S., President, in the 

 Chair. 



Mr. Sich exhibited ova of Tortrix viridana, laid in pairs on the bark of oak, 

 and cases of a Solenohia, presiimably S. lichenella, from Barnes. Mr. Moore, 

 Lepidoptera from near Johannesbiu'g, Transvaal, including Uypolimnas misippus. 

 Precis sesatnus, Colias electo, and var. aurivilliusi (comparable to C. edusa and 

 var. helice of Europe), Papilio demodocus, Pyrameis cardui (the small Aethiopian 

 race), Hippotion celerio and Basiothia media, a small green Sphingid. 

 Mr. B. S. Williams, larvae of Xylophasia scolopacina from Finchley, and a series 

 of Trichopteryx (Lobophora) polycommata^ from Yeovil. Mr. Lachlan Gibb, on 

 behalf of Mr. H. M. Simms, a fine suffused aberration of Pyrameis huntera from 

 near Montreal, an ab. hellus of Bithys quercils from near Barmouth, and an 

 aberration of Pharetra (Acronycta) menyanthidis in which the orbicular stigmata 

 were absent, from near Sheffield. Mr. Priske, an example of the Tenebrionid 

 Coleopteron, Morica planata, from Gibraltar. Mr. Bunnett read a short paper, 

 " The Maple A2)his," illustrated with drawings and lantern slides. 



Thursday, June 10th, 1915. — Mr. A. E. Gibbs, F.L.S., F.E.S., Vice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



Dr. Chapman exhibited a living specimen of Polyommatus escheri bred from 

 ova from Gavarnie, Pyrenees. It was of the fonn rondoui. Mr. Hy. J. Turner, 

 the whole of the colovxred jjlates of the ten vohimes of Herbst's Natursystem 

 Kiifer, 1783-1804, which he had bovight for a few shillings from a street 

 barrow. Mr. B. S. Williams, aberrations of Selenia bilunaria (illunaria), a very 

 strongly marked $ and a smoky ^ , larvae of Anticlea badiata, and abei'rations 



