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vation of specimens. Lastly, there were exhibits of living larvje. 

 Among the many exhibitors were : — 



Mr. Morton (Lausanne) — a fine collection of Ornithoptera, among 

 others, (K paradisea, O. vktoriae, O. vieridionalis, O. chiinaera S ^>^d 

 ? , etc. 



Colonel Agassiz (Lausanne) — many choice aberrations, amongst 

 others (1) Fapilio machaon with the marginal lunules of the four wings 

 almost absent, and invaded by black ; Silesia. (2) Parnassiiis apollo, 

 from the Bernese Jura, three red ocelli on forewings and four on 

 hindwings, two at anal angle ; all the ocelli being joined across the 

 wings with a dark band of black scales. (H) Limenitis Camilla ab. 

 reducta (Silesia), and ab. pythunissa (Silesia). (4) Pyrnnieis atalanta ab. 

 clymene (temp, exper,). (5) P. cardui ab. eh/mi, from Java; the hind- 

 wings rounded. (6) Afjlais iirticae, ground colour orange-yellow (temp, 

 exper.). (7) Melitaea cin.via, M. athalia, M. du'tynna, Brenthis selene, 

 melanic examples. (8) Brenthh daphne, <y and 2 , with the black 

 points of the two antemarginal rows confluent in the form of halteres. 

 It is vey similar to that figured by Aigner-Abafi [Ann. Miis. Nat. 

 Himf/., 1906, p. 503) = ab. conjuncta, Tutt = ab. nbscura, Aigner (?), 



(9) Epmephele pasiphae, from Algeria, the fulvous replaced by cream, 



(10) Euflonia .vant/w)iielas ab. clidijs and ab. (jriitzneri : Polygnnia 

 c-alhuw, etc. (11) Agriades corydon ab. sewibninnea, from the Bernese 

 Juras. (12) Lycaena avion ab. nnicolnr (?), the black points of the four 

 wings very reduced, the ground colour of a beautiful dark blue ; it is 

 like that figured by Oberthiir (Etudes, xx., pi. iii., fig. 19) ; var. 

 liyurica, from Mentone. (13) Velastrina aryiolua ab. subtns-radiata, 

 the hindwings with the black streaks distinctly more thick than in 

 that figured in Nat. Hist. Brit. Butts., ii., pi. xviii., fig. 10. Among the 

 moths the genera Arctia, Catocala, and Plusia were shown. A speci- 

 men of Enchelia jacobaeae, with the carmine replaced by yellow, was 

 noted. 



Mr. Vaucher exhibited 16 drawers of Asiatic Parnassids, including 

 all the known species. 



Mr. Drexler, specimens representing 22 geographical races of 

 Papilio machaon, from districts extending from England through 

 Europe and Asia to Japan. Also a drawer of curious aberrations 

 of this species, the result of "high" and "low" temperature 

 experiments. 



Mr. Mongenet, the Anthrocerids of Geneva, including varied series 

 of Anthrocera carniolica yvith ab. jnrassica, ah. ragonoti, etc.; Anthrocera 

 faitsta vav. jucunda, including ab. segregata and ab. pygmaeoides. 



Mr. Jullien — (1) 24 micro-photographs of the genital organs of 14 

 Argynnid species. (2) Comparative life-histories of Melitaea deione, 

 M. berisalensis, M. athalia, etc. 



Mr. Pictet — (I) a long series of Lasiocampa (jaercus var. siciila 

 reared in Geneva, grouped in two sections — (1) Normal, the duration 

 of the pupal stage about two months. (2) Darker, the pupal stage 

 lengthened artificially to five months. The experiment tended to 

 show that " an extension of the pupal stage might be sometimes a 

 factor in melanochroism." (II) A box containing abnormal Aglais 

 urticae, Vanessa io, Eugonia polychloros, with a note that " pupae sub- 

 mitted to a temperature of 50° to 60°, gave rise to imagines with the 

 markings strongly modified." (Ill) Series of Vanessa io, with a note 



