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Mr. G. T. PoRRiTT showed a series of Abraxas grossulariata, 

 var. varleyata, bred this year from a pairing of the variety 

 obtained from wild larvae the pi-evious season at Huddersfield. 

 All the brood were of the variety, none showing the least 

 tendency to revert to the ordinary form, 



Mr. C. P. Pickett brought for exhibition a remarkable 

 gynandromorphic specimen of Anger ona primaria bred by 

 him, of which the right-hand fore-wing was 5 > ^^^ the 

 hind-wing ^ , while the left fore-wing was 3 , the hind-wing 

 showing a mixed tendency to ^ and $ . He also showed a 

 (J specimen of Fidonia atomaria, caught at Folkestone, with 

 six wings. The two extra wings, which were placed with the 

 left hind-wing, though rudimentary, displayed perfect fringes. 



Professor Charles Stewart, F.K.S., exhibited a remarkable 

 unnamed exotic larva found in a collection of specimens 

 received at the College of Surgeons. It displayed a series of 

 iridescent spots about the spiracles, this iridescence being in 

 his experience unique in the lai-val stage of Lepidoptera. 



Mr. W. J, Lucas exhibited, on behalf of Mr. F. W. Campion 

 and Mr, H. Campion, specimens of Sympetrum flaveolum, and 

 read the following note by those gentlemen : — 



" A male specimen of this species was taken and another 

 seen among some rush-beds a little to the north of Epping on 

 8th August. On 12 th August, when the sky was so overcast 

 that not a single S. striolatum, or hardly anything else, was 

 on the wing, we met with a good number of S. flaveolum rest- 

 ing upon the rushes in an old gravel-pit, then nearly dry, 

 near Chingford. ISTot a solitary example, however, was seen 

 in a neighbouring pit, still fairly well filled with water but 

 almost bare of rushes, until 2nd September, when a male was 

 taken. On 12th August we noticed that at our approach the 

 insects started up with a sudden and peculiarly disconcerting 

 bound, and, although their flight was neither very rapid nor 

 prolonged, we found it diflicult to follow them, not only by 

 reason of the general agreement of their coloration with that 

 of the rush-flowers, but also on account of their habit, when- 

 ever the pursuit became at all hot, of taking refuge in the tops 

 of tall trees. However, we succeeded in taking four males 

 and, what was still more important, a female. The female 



