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LI. dilucidana, and L. smeathmanniana, from Great Britain, 
L. eryngiana from Germany, and ZL. sanguinana from 
Hungary. 
Mr. Porritt showed examples of Arctia lubricipeda, reared 
this season, and probably the darkest ever bred in this 
country, some of them being almost black. They had been 
obtained by continued selection of the parents from successive 
broods during the past five years. With them were exhibited 
a pair representing the darkest examples of five years ago, the 
contrast being very marked. 
Mr. R. Apxkin exhibited, on behalf of Mr. Wm. Reid 
of Pitcaple, series of Teniocampa gothica bred through four or 
five generations from selected parents. The ova were obtained 
in the first instance from wild females taken in the Rannoch 
district, none of the male parents being known, and only 
about two in a hundred of the first broods reared followed the 
particular form of their respective female parents. These 
were again bred from with the result that the greater portion 
of the most recent broods were true to their particular forms. 
The series exhibited included, among others, forms in which 
the “ gothic’? mark was strongly produced, in black-brown in 
one and bright chestnut in another; while in others it was 
absent. The ground-colour of the wings of the various series 
also showed great divergence. This exhibit also comprised 
some remarkable forms of Abraxas grossulariata from Pitcaple, 
in which the central area of the wings was devoid of markings 
with the exception of the discoidal spots, which were un- 
usually large and round; the form was said to be peculiar to 
the neighbourhood of Pitcaple: also a series of Melanthia 
bicolorata, var. plumbata, and of strongly-marked forms of 
Pachnobia hyperborea, both from Rannoch. 
Colonel YeRsury exhibited the following species of Diptera 
from Scotland: Laphria jlava—only recorded once previously 
from Great Britain, Syrphus annulipes—found in plenty 
but usually a rare insect, S. topiarius, Hristalis rupium, Xylota 
abiens, X. confinis—one previous British capture, Spilomyia 
fallax—one previous British capture, Physocephala nigra, 
Cephenomyia rufibarbis, and Pogonota hireus—very common, 
usually rare; also a series of Volucella bombylans to show the 
