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summer forms of tlie Japanese hippocrafes. — Mrs. Hemming, Argyn- 

 nids bred and captured in 1909-10, including melanic Dnjas paphia 

 and several under sides of the same species varying from brown to 

 green.^Captain Cardew, an extremely dark specimen of the ab. 

 fitsca of Cwnobia rufa from Norfolk, AntJirocera vicice, ab. confitsa, 

 extremely light and dark forms of Fidonia carbonaria from Rannoch, 

 a unicolorous male of Epione advenaria, and a light straw Ematurga 

 atomaria. — Mr. Scorer, a Euchelia jacohaoi with the costal streak 

 and apical spot united, and a pale salmon coloured example, 

 specimens of Eucliloe cardamines with very large discal spots, and a 

 Grammesia trilinea with a strongly elbowed outer discal line. — Mr. 

 Percy Bright, a large number of the finest aberrations of numerous 

 species of British Lepidoptera, including forty-one very striking 

 examples of Abraxas grossitlariata, from almost unicolorous white to 

 nearly entirely yellow, and a bred small specimen without scales ; a 

 TriphcBna fimbria with wliite replacing the yellow ; an extreme 

 melanic Eubolia bipunctaria; a gynandromorph of Fidonia atomaria; 

 a,n adonis -like Polyommatus icarus; several Pohjgonia c -album with 

 straw yellow ground ; a Pieris napi with blackish outer margins ; an 

 extremely blue female of Agriades thetis with unusually large orange 

 spots ; a Pseudoterpna pruinata with black bands across the wings, 

 &c. — Mr. R. South, on behalf of Mr. Yates, of St. Anne's-on-Sea, a 

 series of Luperina gueneei taken this year, and a series of very varied 

 forms of L. testacea with which he compared and contrasted them in 

 detail ; a short series of bred Phibalapteryx lapidata from Glasgow 

 ova; and three specimens of Oria {Synia) musculosa taken by Mr. 

 H. Haynes, near Salisbury, in 1909. — Tlie Rev. F. D. Morice, a 

 collection of about three hundred of the most conspicuous and 

 handsome European and Mediterranean species among the sawflies, 

 chrysids, ants, fossorial wasps, and true wasps, and gave a very 

 interesting short account of the habits in the various groups. — Mr. 

 H. W. Andrew^s, a unicolorous grey form lacking the yellow markings 

 of the dipteron Prosena sybarita, from N. Kent. — Mr. Edwards, 

 numerous W. African species, chiefly the genus CymotJioe, which 

 show very strongly marked sexual dimorphism. — Mr. West (Green- 

 wich), his collection of British Homoptera. — Mr. Masters, a Vanessa 

 atalanta taken in Jersey, witli blotched and confused markings 

 comparable only to those produced in recent temperature experiments 

 with the species. — Mr. Blenkarn exhibited a specimen of the genus 

 Epliyra, with marking suggestive of both E. porata and E. piinc- 

 taria. — Rev. J. E. Tarbat, specimens of a very light form of 

 Nemeopliila plantaginis from S. Hants, and a very dark form from 

 Witherslack. — Mr. W. G. Sheldon, a fine series of all the European 

 species of Neptis, Apaiura, and Livicnilis taken l)y him in Hungary, 

 Switzerland and France. — Mr. H. Page sent two beautiful series of 

 Polyommatus escheri and Goinonympha dorus, from Abries and Digne 

 respectively, in July, 1910. — Mr. L. W. Newman, long and varied 

 series of closely inbred Ennomos alniaria; showing the washed-out 

 appearance produced ; a fine set of the melanic form of the species ; 

 hybrid Smerinthus ocellatns, male x Aviorpha popuU, female ; both 

 males and a female ; a long series of hand-painted figures of the 

 finest aberrations bred by him ; on behalf of Mr. Marshall, Lyccsna 



