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mens of Plusia moneta and their cocoons, which were found at 
Frinsted, Kent, on the 8rd September last. It was stated that Mr. 
Mathew had found seven cocoons on the under side of the leaves of 
monkshood, but that the imagos had already emerged from five of 
them. Mr. Rye exhibited a specimen of Zygena jfilipendula var. chry- 
santhemi, and two varieties of Arctia villica, taken at Lancing, 
Sussex; also dwarf specimens of Huchloé cardamines from Wimbledon ; 
a variety of Thecla rubi from Bournemouth; and varieties of Coccinella 
ocellata and C. oblongo-guttata from Oxshott. Mr. A. H. Jones ex- 
hibited specimens of Argynnis pales var. isis, and var. arsilache, the 
females of which showed a tendency to melanism, recently taken at 
Campfer, in the Upper Engadine; also melanic forms of FErebia 
melampus, and a specimen of Hrebia nerine, taken at Bormio, at the 
foot of the Stelvio Pass. Mr. Elwes exhibited specimens of typical 
Erebia melas, taken by himself at Campiglio, in the Western Tyrol, on 
the 25th July last, at an elevation of 7000 feet ; also specimens of the 
same species from Hungary, Greece, and the Eastern and Ceutral 
Pyrenees. He stated that the supposed absence of this species from 
the Alps, which had seemed to be such a curious fact in geographical 
distribution, had been first disproved by Mrs. Nicholl, who discovered 
it at Campigho two years ago. He also exhibited fresh specimens of 
Erebia nerine, taken at Riva, on the lake of Garda, at an elevation of 
about 500 feet; also specimens of the same species, taken at the same 
time, at an elevation of about 5000 feet, in cool forest glades; and 
remarked that the great difference of elevation and climate did not 
appear to have produced any appreciable variation in this species. 
Mr. Elwes also showed a pair of Dasydia tenebraria var. wockearia, 
Ster., from Campiglo, which apppeared to him to be sufficiently con- 
stant and distinct from the typical form to be treated as a species. Mr. 
G. ‘I’. Porritt exhibited two fine varieties of Abraxas grossulariata, bred 
by Mr. George Jackson during the past summer from York larve ; 
also, on behalf of Mr. 'T’. Baxter, a curious Noctua taken on the sand- 
hills at St. Anne’s-on-Sea on August 20th last, concerning which a 
difference of opinion existed as to whether it was a melanic form of 
Agrotis cursoria or of Caradrina cubicularis ; also a small dark form of 
Orgyia antiqua, which had occurred in some numbers at Longridge 
near Preston. Mr. A. Eland Shaw exhibited a specimen of Meco- 
stethus grossus, Linn., taken lately at Irstead, in the Norfolk-broad 
district. He stated that this was the first recorded capture of this 
species in Britain since 1884. Mr. C. G. Barrett exhibited a speci- 
men of Syrichthus alveus, caught in Norfolk, about the year 1860, by the 
Rev. J. H. Marsh; a beautiful variety of Argynnis euphrosyne, caught 
this year near Godalming, by Mr. O. Latter ; and a series of varieties 
of Hnnomos angularia, bred from a female taken at Nunhead. Mr. P. 
Crowley exhibited a specimen of Zyyena jilipendule var. chrysanthemi, 
taken last August at Riddlesdown, near Croydon, by Mr. Murton 
Holmes. Lord Walsingham sent for exhibition several specimens of 
larvee of Sphinx pinastri and Aphomia sociella, preserved by himself, 
which were intended for presentation to the British Museum. The 
larve of S. pinastri had been sent to him by Lord Rendlesham, who 
obtained them from ova laid by a female which he had captured in 
Suffolk last August. Mr. de Nicéville communicated a paper entitled 
