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Argynnis adippe from Thi'ee Bridges, with the markings of the hind-wings run into 

 streaks and considerably suffused with black ; a form of Melaimnjia galathea, having 

 the black marking almost wholly confined to the marginal and submarginal areas of 

 all four wings, and a specimen of Xylina confonnis taken in 19U4 in East Kent. 

 Mr. Tonge, photo-micrographs of the ova of all the British species of the genera 

 Enno7uus, Uporabia, Cheiinatohia, Aniaopteryx, and Hybernia. Mr. K. Adkin, a 

 series of Anthrocera {Zygxna) fillpenduUe, to illustrate the gradual change in the 

 colour, from the typical rich crimson through shades of terra-cotta and pinkish- 

 yellow, to a pale clear yellow ; also an example in which the four basal spots were 

 united into an irregular elongated patch. He also showed a Pararye megasra, in 

 which the apical ocellated spot was absent from the right fore-wing, there being 

 only a minute black dot. It was also without the ocellus on the under-side. Mr- 

 Hy. J. Turner, a collection of butterflies from South America, chiefly belonging to 

 ^e Lthomiinx. Mr. A. Harrison and Mr. E. Main (1) series of Aplecta nebuLosa, 

 bred from larvae taken in Delamere Forest ; (2), sGvias oi Hypsipetes sordidata irom 

 Windermere, Delamere, and Seal, bred, and Barmouth captured, only the first series 

 showed any considerable variation ; (3), a black variety of Agrotis exclamationis 

 from Lancashire ; (4) a melanic sei'ies of Cymatoiphora duplaris from Simonswood 

 Moss, where only dark forms seems to occur now j {b) a, Melaaippe fluctuata vfith 

 only the costal portion of the central band remaining, and wiih brownish ground 

 colour ; and (6) a specimen of Acronycta leporina from Delamere Forest, with 

 black thorax and abdomen, and with fore-wings much suffused with black. Mr. 

 Stanley Edwards, a collection showing the various groups of the Reliconinse. Mr. 

 West of Greenwich, his collection of British Hemiptera, some 431 species, many of 

 which were particularly interesting, as having been taken in the near neighbourhood 

 of London. Mr. F. B. Carr, a bred specimen of Laaiocampa quercus, in which the 

 scales were extremely ill developed. Mr. Harrison, on behalf of Mr. E. Harris of 

 Chingford, bred series and generations of Hemerophila abruptaria from ova laid in 

 May, 19U4, from the pairing of a dark female with a light male, and from ova 

 obtained by pairings of this first generation. Dr. Chapman, bred specimens of 

 Arctia villica, var. konewkai, from Sicily. Mr. Hare, a very dark variety of Boarmia. 

 repandata from Basingstoke. Mr. Gr. B. Browne (i), a dark form of Ellopia Jasci- 

 aria ; (2), bred specimens of Uabera pusaria v. rotundaria ; (3), an extremely dark 

 form of Acronycta ligustri from Lee; (4J, dark forms of Trachea piniper da; and 

 (5), a varied sex-ies of Lithoatege griseata. Mr. Chittenden, dark forms of Triphaena 

 comes, bred from Forres larvae and a yellow form of TiUacea aurago from Ashford, 

 Kent. Mr. Rayward, several Anth^'ocera filipendulie with the sixth spot almost 

 suppressed, and a most brilliant form of Polyommatus bellargus from Reigate. 

 Mr. Dobson, the species of dragon-flies which he had taken last summer on the 

 Norfolk Broads, viz., Libellula fuLva, L. quadrimaculata, (Jrtlietrum cancellatum, 

 Mschna isosceles, Brachytron pratense and Cordulia senea. Mr. Joy, a specimen of 

 Cupido minima, in which the submarginal spots on the under-side of the hind- 

 wings were elongated into partial rays. Mr. South, varieties of (1) Amphidasys 

 betularia, with unusually well-defined transverse lines ; (2) CUora glabraria, a much 

 suffused form; (3), Boarmia cinctaria, with the two medial lines approaching 

 below the middle ; (4), Teplirosia punctularia, of a pale ochreous colour; and (5), 

 Ematurga atomaria, aberrations from Oxshott. He also showed a series of Aglais 



