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Mansbridge, from North Staffs. There are three specimens 
without data of true leporina, one from the Hope and two from 
the Spilsbury Collections. 
A. aceris—A specimen of ab. infuscata, Haw., from the 
Spilsbury Collection, without data. 
A. alni.—Series of 25, 18 of them with data. One from 
the Hope Collection is labelled with a reference to the ‘ Ento- 
mologist Intelligencer’ of 1856, p. 108. Three N. Staffs bred 
specimens show a decided tendency towards melanism. 
A. strigosa.— Series of 22. Two are labelled ‘‘ Cambridge 
Fens, July, 1890, presented by W. Holland.’ Another from the 
Meldola Collection is labelled ‘‘ Cambridge,” but without a date. 
A. auricoma.—Six specimens. One from the Meldola Collec- 
tion is labelled ‘‘ Sussex, 1894.” 
A. rwmicis.—Two specimens of ab. salicis from N. Staffs, and 
one from Yorks from the Sellon Collection. 
A. ligustri.—Series of upwards of 30, mostly with full data. 
Three ab. coronula taken near Oxford, from the Pogson Smith 
Collection, and one without data from the Hope Collection. 
Arsilonche albovenosa.—Nineteen specimens. Six labelled 
“Cambridge.” The rest without any data. 
Bryophila perla.—Series of more than 100 with full data, 
among them a very beautiful yellow specimen taken in the Isle 
of Wight by the late Capt. R. W. Poulton. A series of more than 
20 from the Meldola Collection, from various parts of Scotland, 
are larger and more strongly marked than the average of English 
specimens. 
B. muralis.—A long and very varied series with full data from 
S. Devon, Wiltshire, Isle of Wight and Sussex. 
B. impar.—Six specimens from Cambridge presented by 
Mr. J. Peed. 
TRIFINE. 
Agrotis segetum.—A long series with some fine aberrations. 
A. vestigialis.—In the series are eight specimens taken near 
Oxford, at an inland locality in which it regularly occurs. They 
differ slightly from the type. 
A. cinerea.—A very varied series of about 40, all but one males. 
Two specimens from Wyre Forest have a brownish ground colour. 
A. cursoria, A. nigricans, A. tritict, A. aquilina, A. exclama- 
tionis, A. upsilon, A. ripe.—Long series of each of these species 
exhibiting almost every form of variation. 
A. obelisca.—Series of 40 from Devon, Isle of Wight and 
Purbeck. 
A. precox.—Series of 84, 17 with data, from the Isle of Wight, 
Cheshire and Lancashire. 
A. simulans.—Seventeen specimens. Six from the Meldola 
Collection with data, viz. 4 Aberdeen, 1 E. Lothian, 1 Portland. 
The others without data. 
