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the other, and more variable inter se than either of the other batches, 

 which were remarkably constant in their characters. He was indebted 

 to Mr. Bacot for the opportunity of examining these batches side by 

 side under the microscope ; that gentleman had succeeded in breeding 

 the species at the same time, and had forwarded him the ova on the 

 same day as they were laid. He did not know whether each batch was 

 the product of a siugle female, or not. Mr. Tutt then referred to the 

 alleged occurrence of T. biundidinia in Morayshire, and said that the 

 opinion of several members was that Mr. Adkin's specimen was only 

 T. crepuscuJaria. Mr. Home's specimen from the same district was 

 now exhibited, and he (Mr. Tutt) said that it was identical with the 

 Perthshire specimen, and of the same type as the Central European 

 forms of T. crepuscnlan'ti. Mr. Montgomery, larvae of Mania inaura 

 which he had obtained from Mr. Young, of Rotherham. Mr. Adkin, 

 specimens of Abraxas f/rossulariata, in one of which the yellow band 

 extended across two-thirds of the hind wing, and in the other the 

 yellow colour was reduced in intensity to a very pale buff. He also 

 showed an example of Arctia caia with the fore wings much suffused 

 with brown, and with the blue-black blotches of the hind wings much 

 run together. A long discussion took place on the protection of insects 

 in danger of extermination, and finally the following resolution was 

 adopted : — " That the thanks of the South London Entomological and 

 Natural History Society be given to the Committee of the Entomo- 

 logical Society of London for the protection of species of insects in 

 danger of extermination ; that the Society strongly approves of the 

 work ; and that the members present pledge themselves to use their 

 personal efforts to further the objects of the Committee." 



March ^oth. — The President in the chair. B. H. Waters, Esq., 

 48, Fiusbury Pavement, E.C., was elected a member. Mr. McArthur 

 exhibited specimens of Mehoiippe hastata from various localities, and 

 said that he had never taken the species in Shetland, nor had he seen 

 the food-plant there. Rev. E. Tarbat, a gynandromorphous specimen 

 of Melananjia ijalatea, taken at Swanage ; the markings of the under 

 side followed those of the upper. Mr. Mansbridge exhibited a bred 

 series of Anchocelis riijina from Huddersfield, which were less uniformly 

 tinted than the southern examples of this species usually are. Mr. 

 Tutt, specimens of Phigalia pcdaria (pilosaria), taken near Bradford by 

 Mr. Butterfield [vide Rep. Ent. Soc. Lond., March 17th, ante, p. 147] . 

 Mr. Mansbridge said the black was of a different kind to that of the 

 melanic specimens he had seen from the West Riding. Mr. Tutt 

 reported that Mr. Clarke had taken Tcphrosia crejniscularia this spring 

 from the wood which Mrs. Bazett had asserted did not produce it, 

 and so confirmed the statement made by Mr. Henderson last October. 

 Rev. E. Tarbat also reported the species from woods near Reading. 

 Mr. Turner, living larvfe of Cleora lichcnaria, taken in Ashdown Forest, 

 and remarked on their wonderful resemblance to the lichen upon which 

 they fed. He also made a few remarks on the district in anticipation 

 of the proposed visit of the Society at Whitsuntide. Mr. Adkin, series 

 of Abraxas (jrossidariata, bred from Perthshire larvfe, including a notice- 

 able var. with fore wings having a broad white central band with a 

 large circular black discoidal spot, and hind wings also having a large 

 discoidal spot. A paper entitled '< Representative Species," by Prof. 



