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of biological science, but the class Insecta was more espe- 
cially favoured. These last were so numerous that it would 
be utterly impossible to mention them all in detail, but among 
those we particularly noticed were Mr. McLachlan’s cases of 
European caddis-flies (Trichoptera), the Ascalaphidz, ant-lions 
(Myrmeleonide) and Nemopteridz, and some larval cases from 
Zanzibar resembling shells of the molluscan genus Cyclostoma, 
formed by one of the Psychide. 
Mr. J. Jenner Weir, four cases of Exotic Lepidoptera, including 
species of the genus Satyride, comprising the continental and 
insular topomorphic species. Danaian butterflies of the genera 
Tirimula and Anosia, and specimens of A. plexippus (Danais 
archippus), from widely different parts of the world; also exhibits 
of the genera Morpho and Caligo. 
The President, Mr. R. South, twelve cases illustrating 
comparative series of Melitea athalia from various English 
localities, together with specimens of M. athalhia, M. dictynna, 
M. parthenie and M. aurelia from Switzerland; series of 
Melitea aurinia (artemis) from various English, Irish and Scotch 
localities; series of Melitea cynthia, M. aurinia (artemis) and 
var. merope, M. cinxia, M. pheebe, M. didyma and var. alpina, M. 
dictynna, M. aurelia, M. parthenie and var. varia from Switzer- 
land; series of Lycena egon, L. astrarche (agestis) var. sal- 
macis and var. artaxerxes, L. bellargus (adonis), all British ; 
Lycena icarus (alexis) from various English, Irish and Scotch 
localities, including several specimens of the var. icarinus and 
forms intermediate between this var. and the type; Lycena 
corydon from Isle of Wight this year; several of the females 
are much suffused with blue and the under sides show interesting 
variations ; twenty species of Lycena from Switzerland ; Ceno- 
nympha typhon (davus) from various Scotch and North English 
localities; some very handsome forms among an exceedingly 
long and variable series of Boarmia repandata, bred this year 
from larve collected in North Devon; Hypsipetes sordidata 
(= elutata) from various British localities, and a series of 
Larentia cesiata from Seotland and the north of England, together 
with three preserved larve of the species from Shetland; a bred 
series of Sesia chrysidiformis ; an interesting and variable series 
of Zygena filipendule ; a series, including banded forms, of 
Gnophos obscuruta (these three species from Folkestone in 1885); 
