44 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
a silver coloured Satyrid; brilliant South American Nymphalide of 
the genus Callithea.—Mr. C. B. Williams, ab. olivacea of Lasiocampa 
quercts, with its dark coloured cocoon, and a very dark coloured larva 
of the same form; under the microscope, species of Thrips, including 
Kakothrips pisivora and British species of Protwra.—Mr. A. E. Gibbs, 
A. coridon from Herts, ab. semisyngrapha, blue spots inside hind-wing 
margin ¢s, white fringe ?, rayed 2s, many undersides spotting 
aberrations, coffee-coloured underside, white ringed discoidals, asym- 
metrical forms, § with orange on the submargin, hind-wings, ete.— 
Mr. Bacot, living yellow-fever mosquito, Stegomyia fasciata, in all 
stages.—Mr. Edwards, the parts group of Papilio, P. ganesa, 
P. arjuna, P. brama, P. arcturus, P. peranthus, P. montanus, 
P. bianor, and P. paris var. karna and var. vernalis—Mr. R. Adkin, 
eight representative series of families of Boarmia gemmaria reared 
through successive years from captured females of the black form: 
(1) Black x black, result, all black, 39 per cent. ¢, 61 per cent. 2; 
(2) black 3 x type 2, result, 44 per cent. typical, 56 per cent. black ; 
(3) black x black, result, 22 per cent. typical, 78 per cent. black ; 
(4) black x black, result, 50 per cent. typical, 50 per cent. black ; 
(5) black x black, result, 29 per cent. typical, 71 per cent. black ; 
(6) type ¢ x black 2, result, 63 per cent. typical, 38 per cent, 
black ; (7) black x black, result, all black ; (8) black x black, result. 
29 per cent. typical, 71 per cent. black—Mr. F. W. Frohawk, 
Lycena arion, long series Cornish, spotless to heavily spotted gs, 
?s with spots like ¢s to large club-shape and spotted ?s, dwarf 
examples, dull coloured forms; Gonepteryx rhamni, a specimen 
similarly coloured to G. cleopatra.—Mr. C. P. Pickett, A. coridon 
from Herts, 1915, sixty-six asymmetrical gynandromorphic @s, 
ab. roystonensis, fourteen 2s with asymmetrical splashes of ¢ colour, 
ab. inequalis, light golden-brown 2s, 2s with golden-brown patches, 
black, white rayed, ab. semisyngrapha, ab. obsoleta, ab. minor, blackish- 
grey undersides, whitish to sky-blue 3s, ab. suffusa, and ab. pallida 
$s, near ab. fowleri ; A. grossulariata, dark Aberdeen forms and 
ab. varleyata ; Angerona prunaria, results of eighteen years’ inter- 
breeding, and latterly exposed to colour environment; under orange 
produced deeper orange, under green became lighter, and orange 
absent, under red produced deep reddish-orange g's and deep chocolate 
banded ¢s, ab. pickettarza, a half-banded form.—Hy. J. TURNER. 
Tur DerpysHIRE ENtTomonoGicaL Sociery.—November 20th, 
1915.—Annual Exhibition Meeting held by the invitation of the 
Treasurer at Derwent House, Daffield Road, Derby. In the absence 
of Mr. John Hill, President, through illness, the chair was taken by 
Mr. H. C. Hayward. Mr. J. Douglas exhibited a box of moths 
obtained by him during the past season principally at Witherslack, 
including short series of the undermentioned species, in each case 
showing a considerable range of variation. Lycena (Plebevus) egon 
with var. masseyi, Canonympha davus (typhon) var. rothlerbia, 
including a female with male coloration, Hyria muricata, Acidalia 
fumata, Perconia (Aspilates) strigillaria, Bupalus piniaria, and 
Diacrisia sanio. Also specimens of Zygena hippocrepidis, Zygena 
purpuralis, from North Ireland, Plusza moneta, Derbyshire, and a 
