SOCIFTIES. Siar 
R. Adkin, &.—Mr. Newman exhibited long varied series of Dzan- 
thecia barrettit, bred from Co. Cork and from §. Devon; bred series 
of Boarmia repandata from the Wye Valley and from N. Cornwall ; 
and a series of the more hybrid popwli x ocellatus.—Mr. Longe, the 
same hybrid and a Rumicia phleas from Deal, with the red sub- 
marginal band on the hind wing quite wanting.—Hy. J. TURNER, 
Hon. Rep. Sec. 
Lonpon Naturan History Socirsty.—April 21st, 1914.—Mr. 
Bernard Cooper, a fine asymmetrical specimen of Nwmeria pulveraria, 
bred in March, 1914, from New Forest ova, in which the band was 
obsolete on the right fore wing. 
May 19th.—Mr. A. W. Mera, on behalf of Mr. B.S. Williams, a 
melanic specimen of Lycia hirtaria, bred at Finchley from wild 
pupz.—Mr. A. J. Willsden, the reciprocal hybrids of Lycza hirtaria 
and Nyssza zonaria. 
June 2nd.—Mr. J. Riches, Colias edusa, ab. helice, bred from 
Kastbourne ova. 
September 1st.—Mr. H. B. Williams, a short series of Huchloé 
cardamines, bred in May, 1914, including a male with extra spot 
below the discoidal spot, under side. A long series of Polyommatus 
icarus, taken in June at Boxhilland Banstead Downs, showing strong 
tendency to obsolescence in the spotting of the under side. Also two 
gynandromorphous specimens of Amorpha populz, bred on August 2nd 
from June ova.—Mr. W. E. King, specimens of Zizera minima, and 
abs. obsoleta and extrema, from Horsley.—Mr. Williams read a short 
paper on the season’s collecting. 
October 6th.—Mr. G. H. Heath, a fine series of Boarmia repandata 
from Lynton, including ab. conversaria—Mr. C. H. Williams, 
Polyommatus tcarus, from Ireland, also an obsolete male and ab. 
antico-striata, Tutt.—Mr. W. E. King, a series of P. icarus taken at 
Horsley this year, including abs. striata, obsoleta, antico-obsoleta, 
subobsoleta, postico-apicalis, costajyuncta, melanotoxa, &e.—Mr. L. W. 
Newman, a gynandromorphous P. zcarus, having right fore wing 
female, remainder male, except one red female lunule on each hind 
wing, another chiefly female but having small male patches. Also a 
gynandromorphous Agriades thetis, chiefly female but with a splash 
of male colour along the costa of the right fore wing; Agriades 
coridon ab. minutissumus, and a series of Gastropacha ilictfolia, bred 
from a female taken at Cannock Chase in 1913 by Mr. G. B. Oliver. 
—Mr. H. B. Williams, a long series of Agriades coridon taken in 
August, 1914, in North Herts, including long series of abs. semz- 
syngrapha, Tutt, nequalis, Tutt, parisvensis, Gerh., and fine series of 
obsoleta and striata under sides, male and female, also a female of the 
colour of C. pamphilus, a female with bluish suffusion over the 
greater part of the under side of the right hind wing. Also a series 
of P. icarus from the same place, including fine blue females, and abs. 
melanotoxa, Marrott, brarcuata, Tutt, basijywncta, Tutt, costajuncta, 
Tutt, and forms combining melanotoxa, costajuncta and basiuncta ; 
also ab. antico-striata, Tutt, four extreme ab. swbobsoleta, Tutt, two 
