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ready to Le transferred to the stigma of the next flower 

 visited by the insect. 



Mr. J. W. TuTT exhibited a series of 184 specimens of 

 Epunda lutulenta taken this season at Mucking in Essex, 

 by the Rev. C. E.. N. Burroavs. He said these Essex specimens 

 showed practically all the recorded aberrations of the species, 

 even those which so far have been taken only in Scotland 

 and Ireland, except that the blackest forms are not quite so 

 glossy black nor the grey forms so slaty. The grey forms 

 were few in number — only 7 per cent, out of three seasons' 

 collection, and the exceedingly dark forms — ab. hc/tehtnyensis, 

 Frey., — only 2 per cent. Twenty-five per cent, of the females 

 had pale hind-wings, and lather more than 28 per cent, of the 

 males had the dark row of spots upon the nervures of the 

 hind-wing which is given by Freyer as a distinctive niai'k of 

 ab. htnebtirgensis. The flight of hhtulenta appeared to be very 

 brief. In 1899, and again this season, the species was met 

 with only during a period of seventeen days from its first 

 appearance. The first fall of rain seems to destroy the 

 insects, and however abundant they may be before the rain, 

 only one or two are to be found afterwards. 



On behalf of Mr. Watkins of Painswick, Mr. Tutt exhibited 

 a Noctuid bred in Gloucestershire from a larva which was 

 taken from a banana supposed to have come from the West 

 Indies. 



Mr. W. J. Kaye exhibited a female specimen of HydTocmn.'pa 

 stayiudis, var., with examples of the typical form for com- 

 parison ; the variety differed in having the basal line nearly 

 obsolete, the sub-median double line much strengthened 

 internally and reduced externally, and the cross band con- 

 necting the sub-median and post-median bands almost entirely 

 obliterated. 



Mr. F. Merrifif.ld exhibited a variety of Argynnis dia 

 taken with a few examples of the ordinary form at Ilanz in 

 the Vorder Rhein valley eaily in September last, when what 

 was, he believed, a third brood of this species was abundant ; 

 the variety was much blackened on the basal half of all the 

 wings. 



Canon Fowler exhibited a specimen of Orochares amjustatus, 



