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in America." Some discussion took place. — Mr. G. T. Porritt exhibited 

 a gynandromorph of Lasiocampa quercus and an olive- banded male 

 of the same species, together with a lemon-yellow male of Cosmo- 

 triche Rotatoria, the former from near Huddersfield — Mr. Piatt 

 Barrett, British LyccBnidce taken this season. 



November 23rcZ.— Mr. Hy. J. Turner, F.E.S., President, in the 

 chair. — Mr. L. W. Newman, a series of very darkly-marked bred 

 specimens of Agriojns aprilina, from Teesdale. — Mr. Frohawk, a fine 

 bred series of Chrysoplianus rutilus from ova laid by a female from 

 Holland and compared them with the Austrian race and British 

 C. dispar. — Mr. Turner, a long series of many forms of Peronea cris- 

 tana and examples of various continental races of Parnassius mne- 

 mosyne. — Mr. Brooks reported that he had taken an imago of 

 Acronycta viegacephala on June 8th and again on August 8th on the 

 same trunk. It was supposed that the latter was a belated emer- 

 gence. Mr. Blair, the living larvae of the Dipteron Microdon viuta- 

 bilis, an inhabitant of ants' nests, found among sphagnum from the 

 New Forest. Mr. Frohawk reported that he had noticed wasps col- 

 lecting ears of corn in quantity from one portion of a field. This 

 was quite a new habit. 



December l-itli. — The President in the chair. — The annual exhibi- 

 tion of varieties. — Mr. W. J. Kaj^e, on behalf of Mr. J. J. Joicey, 

 (1) a gynandromorph of Papilio lycophron, from Peru ; (2) the first 

 known female of the Brassolid Polygrapha cyanea, closely resembling 

 an Opsiphanes sp., from Ecuador ; (3) a yellow aberration of Zygaena 

 trifolii, from Watergate ; (4) a yellow form of Zygcena filipendulce, 

 from Tenby, an al)eiTation confluent on left wing only, an aberration 

 intermediate between yellow and red, and a fine ab. chrysanthemi. 

 Mr. Kaye, also for Mr. .Joicey, twelve new forms of Heliconius mel- 

 piomene, from French Guiana, representing a wholly new phase of 

 variation in the species, and read notes on the relationship of the 

 forms. Mr. Kaye's own exhibit was a cabinet drawer of the Itho- 

 miine genus Leucothyris, composed of transparent insects with black 

 markings, and read notes on the significance of the varied markings 

 exhibited. Dr. Cockayne, an aberration of Polygonia c-album, in 

 which the two large costal spots are united and the hind wings are 

 almost entirely black. Dr. Chapman, males and females of two pairs 

 of LyctBnid species, of which one of each pair has only quite recently 

 been differentiated, viz., Callophrys avis from G. ricbi in the Riviera, 

 and L. pyrenaica from L. orbitulus v. oberthilri in the Pyrenees. 

 He also showed the double-brooded S. European Agriades, which 

 Dr. Verity differentiates from the single-brooded A. coridon with the 

 name aragonensis. Mr. W. Leeds, a long series of Lyctenid and other 

 aberrations largely from Herts. Polyommaius icarus, ab. carulea, 

 streaks replacing dots on underside, brilliant blue females ; Agriades 

 coridon, orange-ringed spots on hind margin ^J, black suffusion 

 extended 3", pale buff ? , white wedges between nervures ? , black 

 marking elongated underside ? , ab. melanotoxa + ^b. arcua ? , &c. ; 

 Bithys quercus $ dtirk blue patches instead of purple ; Epinephele 

 jurtina ^ with bleached central patches on all wings ; Gcenonyvipha 

 pamphilus $ straw coloured, ^ dark fulvous colour ; Epinephele 

 tithonus ab. mincki yellow, with extra spots, several with one, two, or 



