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male, taken at sugar at Mucking, October 2nd, 1907. — Mr. A. 

 Harrison, Zygana minos, Cai'narvon, 1905 and 1907. The 1907 speci- 

 mens were smaller and more thinly scaled than those taken in 1905, 

 difference possibly due to the inclement season in 1907. — Mr. G. G. 

 C. Hodgson, Zygana trifolii, Sussex, early July, 1907, including six 

 spotted specimens and three extreme examples of melanism with 

 black hind wings and only a trace of the spots on fore wings. — Mr. 

 L. W. Newman, a dark brown, almost black, specimen of Oporahia 

 dilutata, Bexley, October, 1907. — Mr. A. J. Willsdon, a gynandrous 

 Crocallis elinguaria from Manor Park ; also specimens taken in 1907 

 in this district, being heavily specked with brown, and altogether 

 much darker than a specimen taken in the same district twenty-five 

 years ago. Another example from Torquay showed a very dark 

 central band and strongly marked marginal spots. 



December Srd. — Mr. J. A. Clark exhibited Vanessa antiopa, Waltham- 

 stow, 1872. — Dr. G. G. C. Hodgson, Hes2)eria comma, from Surrey, in- 

 cluding a male with cream ground colour and another male with under 

 side as dark as in normal female. — Mr. L. W. Newman, three cocoons 

 oi Dicranura hicuspis, containing living pupae, found on birch-trunks in 

 Tilgate Forest. — Mr. J. Eiches, on behalf of Mr. Dewey, of Eastbourne, 

 vex'y dark specimens of Epunda lutidenta. and Scopeiosoma satellitia, 

 and a uniformly brick-red example of the latter species. — Mr. L. A. E. 

 Sabine, Oporahia autumnata, from Tilgate Forest, including a pale 

 grey specimen with slightly darker broad central band on fore wings. 

 — Mr. A. J. Willsdon, dark Agrotis piita, from Torquay. The follow- 

 ing gentlemen were elected as Council for 1908 : President, Mr. 

 A. W. Mera ; Vice-Presidents, Dr. T. A. Chapman and Messrs. J. A. 

 Clark, F. J. Hanbury and L. B. Prout ; Treasurer, Mr. P. H. Tautz ; 

 Librarians, Messrs. G. H. Heath and V. E. Shaw ; Curators, Messrs. 

 G. G. C. Hodgson and A. J. Willsdon ; Secretaries, Messrs. S. J. Bell 

 andT. H. L. Grosvenor; Non-official members, Eev. C. R. N. Burrows 

 and Messrs. H. M. Edelsten, E. Harris, J. Riches, and A. Sich. 



December 11th. — Dr. T. A. Chapman exhibited Vanessa urticce 

 from North Lapland larvae ; the specimens were slightly smaller, 

 darker, and brighter than normal British V. urticce, and the brood in- 

 cluded some examples of ah. polaris said to be common in these 

 latitudes. — Mr. E. A. Cockayne, various Lepidoptera from East Aber- 

 deen, 1907, including very dark Xylophasia polyodon and Noctua 

 xantliograplia, a red form of Noctua neglecta, dingy yellow-brown 

 Crocallis elinguaria, and a single Agriopis aprilina with usual bright 

 green ground colour replaced by pale grey-green. — Mr. E. Harris, fine 

 male and female Atigosoma centaurus from Gold Coast. — Dr. G. G. C. 

 Hodgson, V. urticce, from Aberdeen, with a slight trace of a third 

 spot above the two usual central black spots on fore wings ; also a 

 specimen from Surrey with these spots almost obsolete. — Mr. L. W. 

 Newman, for Mr. G. B. Oliver, Zygana minos and Z. filipendulce, 

 from North Argyle, and a six-spotted Zygana with fluffy body, from 

 the same district, suggesting that the two species hybridize there. 

 — Dr. H. C. Phillips, a specimen of V. urtica wath pale yellowish 

 ground colour, from Birchington. — Mr. V. E. Shaw, V. urtica ab. 

 atrebatensis (Bdv.), Bexley, August, 1905 ; also, from same district, 



