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Mr. F. B. Jennings exhibited British specimens of two species 

 of Hemiptera — Heteroptera : (1) two females of JJrymug 'pilv[jes^ 

 Fieb., a rare species of the family Lygjeidse, which were found 

 among dead leaves on a hillside near Croydon in September 

 1901 ; (2) the black aberration of Miris lif/cigatus, L., recorded 

 by him in the Entomologists' Monthly Magazine for 1902, 

 p. 224. The species of Miris and the allied genus of Capsidte, 

 Meyalocern^a, are ordinarily giass-gi^een, or pale-yellowish. 



Mr, H. J. Elwes, F.E..8., exhibited two cases of arctic 

 butterflies. The first contained specimens from a collection 

 formed by Mr. David Hanbury on the arctic coast of Xorth 

 America, in the region where the Parry expedition was lost. 

 Of the butterflies observed — fifteen species in all — a large 

 number for such barren and inhospitable ground, two had not 

 been taken since they were first described by Curtis sixty 

 years ago. Among them was C'olias boothii. This species, in 

 comparison with C'olias hecla, Lef., is undoubtedly distinct 

 in both sexes, but it is most remarkable that the male 

 in coloration and markings appears to approximate more 

 closely to the characters usual in the females of other members 

 of the genus. The collection contained nothing new, but 

 included the rare and curious Argynnis imi/roha. Butler, 

 hitherto taken only in Xovaya Zembla (cf. Markham's ** Polar 

 Reconnaissance," p. 351), which Mr. Elwes believed to be 

 nothing more than a high arctic form of A. frigga, Thnb. ; a 

 remarkable aberration of A. charidea, Schn., in which the 

 black netting marks were resolved into smeared black lines ; 

 A. pedes, for the first time from this region, precisely .similar 

 to the form taken on the east of the Lena river in Siberia ; 

 and Coenonympha tipjhon closely resembling the form from 

 Kamtschatka. 



The second case contained specimens from a collection made 

 by a Russian, between Jakutske and Yerkhojansk in north- 

 eastern Siberia at about the same latitude, 67°, as the 

 preceding exhibit. They included many species which occur in 

 the western paltearctic region, such as Ajjey/'ia cratiegi, Tripjiiysa 

 phryne, CcencraympJia iphis, Argynnis selene, A. ino, Melitaea 

 phtehe, etc., and. most remarkable of all, Xejsftis Ivcilla. ALso 

 Parnassius delius, which Mr. Elwes said was the first 



