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GhcerocamjM elpenor, Nudaria mundana, Thyatira hatis, XylopJiasia 

 sublustris, Mamestra furva, Ai^lecta nebiilosa (pale form), Maviestra 

 dissimilis, M. contigita, Boarmia repandata (dark, light, and inter- 

 mediate forms), Gucullia umbratica, &c. — Mr. C. F. Johnson, series 

 of Asteroscopus nubeculosa from three-year-old pupae ; Dianthoecia 

 capsopliila bred from a bag of campion-pods from Howth ; Lopho- 

 piteryx camelina from ova laid on June 10th — these emerged in mid- 

 August and had taken only ten weeks from ovum to imago. — Mr. G. 

 Storey, the following from the breck-sand district of Suffolk : — 

 Dianthmcia irregularis, Emmelesia trabealis (suljjh^iralis), Acidalia 

 ritbiginata, Lithostege griseata. From Wicken Fen : Leucania stra- 

 minea, L. impudens, Coenobia rufa, Arsilonche albovenosa, Bombycia 

 viminalis, Banhia argentula, &c., and a dark variety of Strenia 

 clathrata. From Cambridge : Agrotis pitta, Mesotype virgata, and 

 Bryophila glandifera var. imjjar. From the New Forest: Boarmia 

 roboraria, Eurymene dolobraria, Diacrisia sanio, and Hemaris fiici- 

 formis. He also showed a female variety of Argynnis selene from 

 Brockenhurst ; a blue female variety of Lycana corydon from Cam- 

 bridge ; a yellow male variety of Cosmotriche potatoria from Wicken 

 Fen ; a male variety of Saturnia pavonia from Delamere ; and a fine 

 Melanippe fluctuata var. costovata from Brooklands, Cheshire. — Mr. 

 H. Massey, a drawer of Xanthia aurago from Reading and Worcester. 

 — Mr. Wm. Mansbridge, a fine series of Silenia bilunaria types and 

 var. brunnearia from Delamere, and a series of Aplecta nebidosa bred 

 from robsoni parents from Delamere ; these showed intermediate 

 forms. — Mr. J. H. Watson, living larvae, feeding on rose, of Hylesia 

 muscula, a well-armed Saturnid larva from Brazil, and also a pair of 

 imagines. Newly described forms of the Saturnidae, viz. :• — Philo- 

 samia lunula sub. STp. fusca, and Actias selene sub. sp. callandra, both 

 from the Andaman Islands. Caligula japonica and C. simla and a 

 hybrid between them, to which the name of Caligula hybrid salmoni 

 has been given, after Mr. Albert Salmon, who obtained the cross. A 

 remarkable gynandromorphous specimen of Antheraa mylitta, hatched 

 from a cocoon from Bengal. In this portions of the body and 

 sections of the wings are golden yellow like a var. silvalica, the rest 

 of the insect being of the chestnut-red male colour. Portions of each 

 antenna have both male and female pectinations ; the genitalia are 

 chiefly male, but not typical. — Mr. J. C. Cope, examples of Canadian 

 Coleoptera of the following genera : — From Toronto : Pterostichus, 

 Harpalus, Amara, Hydroils, Cybister, Coccinella. From Winnipeg : 

 Anchovienus, Bembidium, Hister. — Mr. A. W. Boyd, series of Cceno- 

 nympha typhon from Delamere, Erebia epipkron from Great Gable, 

 Boarmia repandata and Agrotis ashtvorthii from North Wales, Carsia 

 paludata from South Lancashire. 



November 1st. — Mr. W. Buckley, the President, in the chair. — 

 Mr. R. Tait, Jr., gave a paper on " An Entomological Trip to 

 Braemar," illustrating his remarks with series of the insects captured. 

 These included very long series of Gnophos obfuscata and Plusia 

 inter rogationis and fine series of Canonympha' typhon, Zygana 

 exulans, Goremia munitata (including a partial second brood), Tham- 

 monoma brunneata, Lygris populata (very varied), and Parasemia 

 plantaginis types and var. Jiospita, bred as a second brood. — Mr. W. 



