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now in llie pos!«ession oi' St. Bartholonjew's Hospital. Mr. W. 

 H.'J'liornthw aite exliibiltnl specin)ens of HelioUti.s .scitlosa and 

 Nuc/tui Jlitiitiiiatra : Lnperiim Di/i/terili and Marfjarudes 

 itnioiKitis tioui Devonshire, in 1S77. All the above, e.xcept 

 L. Dunierili, were, it is stated, taken at light. 



Mr. Prest, on behalf of" the Yorkshire Naturalists' iSociety, 

 brought up a very complete collection, including one Pieris 

 Daplidice ; four Vanessa Anlio/xi, froui Yorkshire; si.\ 

 Li/ccciia Acis, taken at Cardiff' in 1^77; two Deilepltila 

 EiipJiorhicc ; one D. liiica/a : a series of D. (kilii; three 

 Chcerocainpa celerio, two of which were taken in Yorkshire, 

 and the other in Berwickshire; a. Lnsiucai/tpa ilici/olia, from 

 near Ripon; local forms of Hepialus velleda ; some streaky 

 varieties of Arctia lubricipeda ; an hermaphrodite Epione 

 cespertaiia ; single specimens of F.upilJiecia e.vlensaria 

 (\ orkshire, 1873) and Eubolia i/ue/tiata (Yorkshire, lb7*2) ; 

 some remarkable melanic varieties of Eupithecia albi- 

 puiiclala; specimens of Plaiyptenjx sicula, Dicranura 

 bicHspis, Acronycta abii, Xylina cotif'onnis, and many other 

 rarities. Also a web, spun by the larvte of Epheslia elutella, 

 nearly eight feet long and four feet wide, found on the walls of 

 a chicory warehouse in York, and described in a former 

 number of the ' Entomologist.' It may be added that when 

 twisted into a rope-like form this web had supported a weight 

 of fifty-six pounds. 



Mr. E. G. Meek exhibited two drawers of insects from the 

 south-west coast of Ireland, containing amovjgst others a 

 series of Procris stalices, of which it was remarkable that 

 l)olh sexes were the same size ; also a selection of Lcpi- 

 doplera from Scotland, including a long series of yoclita 

 subrina, N. neylecta^ Pacltiiobia by per bo tea, Hadeiia ylauca, 

 Tceiiiocat/ipa yuihici/ui, and Ana f la iiielanopa ; and a drawer 

 containing Cranibus nliyiiiosellus and ISckcenobiiis giyautellus, 

 and other insects from the Norfolk fens. 



Amongst the other numerous Macio- Lepidoplera were the 

 exhibits of Mr. J. Bryant, containing a remarkable variety of 

 Lasiocainpa qucrci/ulia : of Mr. \V. Harper, containing 

 Aryynnis Lathoiiia, taken at Darenih Wood in 18(J8, and 

 specimens of Deilepbila Galii, Cyinalophura ocularis, Ayrolis 

 Asbworlhii, and Plasia orichalcea ; and of Mr. F. Bariletl, 

 with a i)ale variety of I./paris dispar, Cyniaiophora dilula 

 and variety, Leuctniia albipmtcla, Tripiticna stibseqna ; and 

 till' sf)ecinien of Eaperia Julvdyo taken in Highgale Wood 

 in 1870. 



