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London. — Mr. F. B. Carr, a bred specimen of Laaiocampa quercm, in 

 which the scales were extremely ill-developed. — Mr, Harrison, on 

 behalf of Mr. E. Harris, of Chingford, bred series and generations of 

 Hemerophila abruptaria, from ova laid in May, 1904, from the pairing 

 of a dark female with a light male and from ova obtained by pairings 

 of this first generation. — Dr. Chapman, bred specimens of Arctia 

 villica, var. konewkai from Sicily, in which the spots of the fore wings 

 run together to form fascia, together with larvae of the same, which 

 had black heads instead of the red of the type. — Mr. Hare, a very dark 

 variety of Boarmia repandata from Basingstoke. — Mr. G. B. Browne, 

 (1) a dark form of Ellopia fasciaria; (2) bred specimens of Cahera 

 pusaria v. rotundaria ; (3) an extremely dark form of Acronycta ligitstri 

 from Lee ; (4) dark forms of Trachea pmiperda, and (o) a varied series 

 of Lithostefje (jriseata. — Mr. Chittenden, dark forms of Triplmna comes, 

 bred from Forres larvae, and a yellow form of Tiliacea aurago from 

 Ashford, Kent. — Mr. Rayward, several Anthocera ftlipendida: with the 

 sixth spot almost suppressed, and a most brilliant form of PolyommaUis 

 bellargus from Reigate. — Mr. Dobson, the species of dragonflies which he 

 had taken last summer on the Norfolk Broads, viz. LibeUula fulva, L. 

 quadrimacidata, Orthetrum cancellatum, .-Eschna isosceles, Brachytron 

 pratense, and Cordulia anen. — Mr. Joy, a specimen of Cupido minima, 

 in which the submarginal spots on the under side of the hind wings 

 were elongated into partial rays. — Mr. South, varieties of (1) Amphi- 

 dasys betularia, with unusually well defined transverse lines ; (2) 

 Cleora glahraria, a much suffused form ; (3) Boarmia cinctaria, with 

 the two medial lines approaching below the middle; (4) Tephrosia 

 punctularia, of a pale ochreous colour ; and (5) Ematurya atomaria 

 aberrations from Oxshott. He also showed a series of unusually 

 small examples of Vanessa {Aylais) urticcc, reared from larvae fed on 

 hop. — Mr. Barnett, some large Buprestid Coleoptera, with examples of 

 the extremely large ova of the same. — Mr. Bacot, very extensive series 

 and generations of Triplmna comes, originating from parents bred from 

 larvae collected in Aberdeenshire, and bred by Messrs. Bacot, Prout, 

 Gardiner, Newman, Raynor, Harrison, and Hamlyn. The results 

 were : 1st generation, 3- melauic x 2 red = 21 melanic, 32 red ; 

 2nd generation, ^ X ? both melanic = 212 melanic, 71 red ; <? x 2 

 both red = 285 red ; 3rd generation, (? x ? both melanic = 68 

 melanic, 5 red ; 3' melanic x 2 red = 17 melanic ; 5^ X 2 both red 

 = 26 red, — Hy. J. Turner, Hon. Rep. Sec. 



City of London Entomological Society. — November 7th, 1905. — 

 Mr. E. A. Bowles, of Mydellton House, Waltham Cross, was elected a 

 member of the Society. — Mr. A. Bacot exhibited an extensive series of 

 Triphmia comes, representing three generations, the subject of an 

 experiment in heredity. The original parents were selected from 

 imagines bred from larvae from Cluuy, Aberdeen : in the first genera- 

 tion a cross between a bright red female and a melanic male produced 

 sixty per cent, red and forty per cent, melanic specimens. In the 

 second generation a pairing between two red imagines produced one 

 hundred per cent, red imagines, while pairs of melanic forms produced 

 seventy per cent, to eighty per cent, melanic, the remaining imagines 

 being red ; in the third generation broods from melanic and non- 



