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melas, and places the species before us a long way from 

 yoaiUe, its nearest ally, because it used on the ground of size 

 to be placed with ceme and medusa close after the grass 

 Erebias. The large size of var. bejarensls may assist to remove 

 it from this position. The enclasp as compared with Swiss 

 stygne is 2-6 m.m. long as compared with 2'3 m.m., the 

 increased length being chiefly in the shaft, and the marginal 

 spines or styles somewhat less depressed. 



Mr. R, South exhibited four specimens of a large form of 

 Cupido minima i^Lycxna minimus) from Cumberland, sent to 

 the Natural History Museum by Mr. Mousley of Buxton. 

 Except that they are slightly smaller in expanse they approach 

 very closely to var. alsoides, Gerhard, as represented by a series 

 of Swiss examples in the Museum collection, among which are 

 specimens named by Zeller. He said that it might be re- 

 membered that Mr. B. Piffard, of Brockenhurst, Hants, 

 recently presented two examples of the alsoides form of 

 C. viinima to the Museum collection of British lepidoptera. 

 Those specimens, which were stated to have been captured on 

 the coast near Lymington, are rather larger than the Cumber- 

 land specimens now exhibited and agree in size with most of 

 the alsoides in the Museum series. He also exhibited on 

 behalf of Mr. J. H. Fowler, of Eingwood, Hants, a series of 

 Lithosia deplana, Esp., from the New Forest, showing interest- 

 ing variations in both sexes, but more especially in the females. 

 Two of the latter agree with Hubner's ochreola ; three others 

 have the fore wings orange-buff, and the hind wings pale 

 buff slightly tinged with fuscous ; these specimens except for 

 their larger size and broader wings might easily be confii.sed 

 with L. soi'orcida, Hufn. A sixth specimen represents a 

 connecting link between the two extreme forms. It was 

 stated that Mr. Eustace R. Bankes had recently recorded 

 somewhat similar aberrations of Z. dejylana from the Isle of 

 Purbeck, and that Mr. Fowler had not observed either var. 

 ochreola or the orange-buff form prior to 1901. Mr. South 

 also exhibited examples of a local race of Zonosoma [Epliyra) 

 pendularia occurriog in N. Staffordshire, taken by IMr. F. C. 

 Woodforde, of Market Drayton, and stated that tho name 

 siibroseata had been proposed for this form. He also exhibited 



