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a dark aberration of Pi/rd/is lieiiigudis, Zell., taken in a 

 village about 12 miles N.E. of Oxford, Aug. 22, 1902, by Mr. 

 Theodore H. Robinson, of Boscombe, Hants. It was stated 

 that in 1870 and 1S80 the species occum-cd at Stoney 

 Stratford, Bucks. 



Mr. Hamilton Druce exhibited a specimen of Lhnenitis 

 popidi, L., caught whilst being chased by a small bird in July 

 1901, near Riga, Russia ; also a specimen of Sesamia nonagrioides, 

 Lefeb., bred from a larva found feeding in the interior of a 

 banana. 



Mr. J. H. Carpexter exhibited a gynandromorphous speci- 

 men of Lycasnct icarus, having the coloration of the male on 

 the left side and that of the female on the right side, captured 

 on Ranmore Common, Surrey, in June last ; also several 

 aberrations of this species from Ranmore Common and the Isle 

 of Wight. He also showed specimens of Vanessa aiitiopa, bred 

 from German larvre, including a remarkable aberration in 

 which the usual bkie spots on the upper wings were entirely 

 absent. 



Mr. H. St. J. Doxi.sTiiORrE exhibited a foreign specimen of 

 Quedius siduraUs, lent him by Mr. Keys of Plymouth, and a 

 British specimen taken by himself at Gravesend in 1891 ; also 

 for comparison a specimen of Qtiedius obliteratus taken at 

 Plymouth. He said that most of the specimens of, so called, 

 Qicedms siduralls in British collections were really Q. 

 obliteratus. 



Mr. C. P. PiciCETT exhibited a remarkable series oi Angerona 

 prunaria, the result of four years' inter-breeding between dark 

 males from RainJean Wood, near Folkestone, and light-coloured 

 females from Epping Forest ; also unicoloi-ous light orange 

 yellow males, light yellow females, dark orange males sprinkled 

 with black, and other unusual aberrations. 



Professor E. B. Poulton, F.R.S., exhibited a series of lantern 

 slides prepared from negatives taken by his assistant Mr, A. H. 

 Hamm, of the Hope Department, and ]\Ir. Alfred Robinson, of 

 the Oxford University Museum. The slides represented a series 

 of the larvai and imagines of British moths photographed under 

 natural conditions. Mr. Hamm's photographs of moths clearly 

 showed the attitude of the insect in relation to the background 



