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Cheiniatohia hrmnala that looked as if they had been out for some time; 

 also of two males of Hyhcrnia leucophaaria, one perfect, the other wofuUy 

 crippled. A larva of Cleora lichenaria was sunning itself on a tuft of its 

 food, which it could well do without making itself unduly conspicuous. 

 Since then we have had a fair specimen of an arctic winter; and if insects 

 have been on the move the collector has not. Jan. 20th is an early date 

 for H. leucophaaria, but in mild seasons it is usually out by the end of the 

 month. Larvae of C. lichenaria seem to be on the move all the winter. — 

 Charlks Viggers; 36, Hardinge Road, Ashford, Kent, Feb. 18th, 1895. 



I took a male Hyhernia leucopha;aria off Dene Park fence, near Ship- 

 bourne, on January 17th, although only five days previously there was 

 skating. — D. P. Turner. 



[The above notes are interesting, as they record the appearance of lepi- 

 dopterous life during a few days' break in the great frost of 1895. — Ed.] 



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Entomological Society of London. — Feb. 20th, 1895. — Professor 

 Raphael Meldola, F.R.S., President, in the chair. Mr. W. M. Christy 

 exhibited specimens of Lycccna agestis, caught in Sussex last summer, 

 which had a white edging round the black discoidal spot. He said 

 the specimens might, perhaps, be identical with the northern form of 

 the species known as the variety salmacis. Mr. H. Goss exhibited a 

 small collection of Lepidoptera from the South of France, made by 

 Mr. Frank Bromilow. Amongst the species exhibited were the 

 following : — Ileterof/ynis peiuila, Hb., Zygoma stccchadis, Bkh., Apaviea 

 testacea, Hb., A. duinerilii, Dup., Luperina matura, Hufn., Granniieda 

 triijrammica, Hufn., Caradrina ejciijua, Hb., Calophasia platyplera, Esp., 

 Eiicrostis ulyiiipiaria, H.-S., Xemoria pulmejitaria, Gn., Acidalia subseri- 

 ceata, Hw. (var. mancuniata, Knaggs), A. Jilicata, Hb., A. riibiginata, 

 Huiu.jA. marginepunctata, Goze, A. vnitaria,ti.h., Buaimia consortaria, F., 

 Kmaturga atomaria, L., Aspilates ochrearia, Eossi, Cidaria jiuviata, Hb., 

 C. riguata, Hb., C. basochesiata , Dup., C. rivata, Hb., C. bilineata, L,, 

 C. vitalbata, Hb., Eupithecia oblongata, Thnb., E. 2}Uinilata, Hb. (var. 

 tempestivata, Z.), Botys chcrmesinalis, Gn. (var. ostrinalis, Hb.), B. cespi- 

 talis, Schiff., and Adela australis, H.-S. Professor Meldola invited dis- 

 cussion upon the address delivered by Mr. Elwes, as retiring President, 

 on the Geographical Distribution of Butterflies, at the last Annual 

 Meeting. He remarked that he had not himself had time to consider 

 the paper in an adequate manner, but he thought that the discussion 

 might lead to a useful expression of opinion if the speakers would deal 

 Avith the question as to how far the scheme of distribution advocated 

 by Mr. Elwes was borne out by a comparison with other orders of 

 insects. He was of opinion that m considering schemes of geograpliical 

 distribution, the results arrived at were likely to be of greater value 

 the wider the basis on which they rested, and he therefore suggested 

 that the question might also be taken into consideration as to how fur 

 it was justifiable to draw conclusions from the consideration of one 

 division or one order only. He did not offer these observations in a 

 spirit of adverse criticism, but simply with the object of setting the 

 discussion going. Dr. Sharp remarked that geographical distribution 



