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from N. Kent, and Pachnohia alpina from Eannoch, Euchelia jacobace 

 with red markings united, a numl^er of Spilosovia fuUginosa bred 

 in August from Aberdeen ova, laid in June, of the red southern form, 

 and a varied series of Amorplia poindi, including a unicolorous speci- 

 men and one with a greenish band. — Mr. Step, for Mr. Bishop, a 

 cluster of Drosera mtermedia from Cut-mill, which had captured a 

 dragonfly Agrionimella. — Dr. Hodgson, a gynandromorphous Brenthis 

 euphrosyne from Ashdown Forest. — Mr. Sich, shells of the ova of 

 Coleophora niveicostella on thyme, cases of C. potentillce, (?) and of 

 G. parvipennella, and mines of the larvae of Cevizostoma scitella, 

 in hawthorn. — Dr. Chapman showed a series of slides illustrating 

 various, chiefly structural, points in relation to the " blues," especially 

 P. argus, A. corydon, and A. thetts (hellargus) : their larvae at various 

 stages, characteristic hairs, honey glands, &c. ; pupal structure, such 

 as the curious pocket in P. argus and A. thetis between segments 

 four and five of the abdomen, to receive the ends of the legs and 

 antennae ; the male appendages, to illustrate their characteristic 

 forms in the Plebeiids ; a series of specimens of the teeth at the end 

 of the clasp of P. argus and also of a number of allied species, showing 

 the great variation of these parts in P. argus and quite impossible to 

 confound with the other species, where variation might be equally 

 great, but specimens were not available for this. The specimens 

 were all pressed quite flat so as to be perfectly comparable. 



September 227ifZ.— Mr. W. J. Kaye, F.E.S., President, in the 

 chair. — Dr. Chapman exhibited a bred series of a second brood of 

 Agriades corydon from ova laid by spring imagines taken in the 

 Riviera. — Mr. West (Ashtead), a bred series of Malacosoma neustria, 

 containing a good proportion of very light and very dark forms in 

 both sexes. — Mr. Andrews, short series of the Diptera, Pegomyia 

 setaria and Isopogon brevirostris from Chattenden and Shoreham, 

 Kent, respectively. — -Mr. Newman, a Celastrina argiolus female with 

 very wide black margin and spotted fringe, a Pachnohia hyperborea 

 in which a radial segment of the hind wing has the rich markings of 

 the fore wing, an orange Arctia caja with fore wings having only a 

 few small blotches of dark marking, several forms of AngeroJia 

 prunaria uniform and rich marbled, an Adojicea lineola with xanthic 

 discal patches on all wings, and an Abraxas grossulariata extremely 

 pale, with only a few scattered traces of black and yellow markings. — 

 Mr. Kaye, for Mr. Percy Richards, a curious and unique specimen of 

 the genus Zanclognatha with a combination of the markings of both 

 Z. grisealis and Z. tarsipennalis, but considered as being the former 

 species. — Mr. Step, the galls of Gynips kollari (?) from Bookham 

 and compared them with G. tinctoria (?) brought from the Riviera 

 by Dr. Chapman. — Mr. Turner, a box of Geometers which he had 

 received from West Australia and was going to hand to Mr. Prout 

 for identification. — Hy. J. Turner, Hon. Bep. Secretary. 



