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Mr. F. Merrifield exhibited liybrids belonging to the genus Saturnia, obtained 

 by Dr. Standfuss, of Ziirich, viz. : a male and female hybrid from a male of Saturnia 

 pavonia and a female of Saturnia pyri, to which he had given the name of Saturnia 

 emilicB ; also hybrids from what Dr. Standfuss described as " a male of Callimorpha 

 dominula, var. persona" (received from Tuscany), and a typical female of Calli- 

 morpha dominula, to which he had given the name of Somanovi. Mr. Merrifield 

 remarked that the so-called var. persona differed entirely from the type of 

 Callimorpha dominula. Mr. J. W. Tutt exhibited and read notes on specimens of 

 a very small form of Euchloe, taken in Shropshire by the Rev. F. B. Newnham,who 

 was of opinion that it was distinct from E. cardamines. He pointed out that it was 

 much smaller than the latter species, and that the discoidal spot was placed as in 

 IE. turritis and E. Gruneri. Mr. Tutt also exhibited and read notes on specimens 

 of Noctua Dahlii, from Cheshire, Essex, Yorkshire, Aberdeenshire, and other 

 counties. Herr Jacoby read a letter received from Mr. Buxton Forman, one of the 

 Assistant Secretaries of the Post Office, to the effect that the Postal Union had 

 decided to make a rule not to admit Natural History specimens by sample post, 

 which was intended for the transmission of howl fide trade patterns or samples of 

 merchandize, and consequently that the forwarding of such specimens at the sample 

 rate would in future be irregular. Lord Walsingham stated that he had had a long 

 correspondence with the Post Office authorities on the subject, and that the late 

 Mr. Raikes, when Postmaster-Genei-al, promised him in 1891 that such specimens 

 should, so far as the British Post Office was concerned, be transmitted at the sample 

 rates ; and a letter to the same effect, from the late Sir Arthur Blackwood, when 

 Secretary to the Post Office, was published in the Proceedings of the Society for 

 1891. Mr. C. G. Barrett exhibited for Mr. A. J. Hodges a specimen of Hydrilla 

 palustris, from Wicken Fen ; also specimens of Caradrina ambigua, from the Isle 

 of Wight. Of the latter one specimen has the hind margin of the right fore-wing 

 indented, and the wing broadened as though from an injury to the pupa, and the 

 margins of the large orbicular and reniform stigmata had become so joined that the 

 dividing lines had disappeared, and the stigmata were fused into one irregularly 

 formed blotch. Mr. McLachlan exhibited, on behalf of Mr. G. F. Wilson, F.R.S., 

 of Wey bridge, a " grease band," which had been tied round trees to prevent the 

 females of C heimatobia brumata from ascending the trunks for the purposes of 

 oviposition ; the band was thickly covered with the bodies of the females, together 

 with a few males. Sui'geon-Captain Manders exhibited a pair of Chelura bifasciata, 

 from the Shan States, and called attention to the " assembling " habits of the male. 

 Mr. B. A. Bower exhibited a beautiful variety of Zygcena lonicercs, Esp., taken at 

 Chattenden Wood, North Kent, in June last ; also a specimen of Incurvaria tenui- 

 cornis, Stn., taken at Chislehurst, in May, 1893. Mr. H. Goss exhibited, for Mr. 

 r. W. Urich, of Trinidad, a series of males, females, and workers of Sericomyrmex 

 opacus, Mayr, a species of fungus-growing and fungus-eating ant. Colonel Swinhoe 

 read a paper, entitled, " A List of the Lepidoptera of the Khasia Hills, Part iii." 

 Mr. C. J. Gahan read a paper, entitled, " On the Longicorn Coleoptera of the West 

 India Islands." Mr. F. W. Urich communicated a paper, entitled, " Notes on the 

 Fungus-Growing and Eating Habit of Sericomyrmex opacus, Mayr." Prof. E. B. 

 Poulton read a paper, by Mr. E. B. Titchener, entitled, " An apparent case of Sexual 

 Preference in a male Insect." The Rev. H. S. Gorham communicated a paper, 

 entitled, " Notes on Herr A. Kuwert's Revision der Cleriden-gattung Omadius, 

 Lap." — H. Goss and W. W. Fowler, Hon. Secretaries. 



