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than twenty years. Mr. Elisha stated that Mr. Gregson 

 found the majority of the specimens he bred every season 

 "threw back" to the original type, or differed therefrom 

 so slightly as to be scarcely noticeable varieties ; so that, 

 although he was almost sure to get a few remarkable 

 forms every season, he never yet had a batch of eggs that 

 produced varieties alone, no matter how strongly marked or 

 different from the type the parents were. Mr. Elisha said 

 that about six or seven years ago he took at Dover some 

 very dark-banded forms of Cidaria sufumata. One of the 

 darkest specimens laid a batch of eggs, from which he 

 expected to breed varieties, but not a single specimen of the 

 dark form was produced, all the specimens reverting to the 

 common or type form. 



Mr. Stainton remarked that the female of Zelleria hepariella 

 had until lately been considered a distinct species, and was 

 known as Zelleria insignipennella, but directly Mr. Elisha 

 began breeding the insect its identity with Z. hepariella was 

 established. 



Mr. Tutt exhibited specimens of Crambus alpinellus, C. con- 

 taminellus, Lita semidecandrella, L. marmorea (dark forms), 

 and L. blandulella (a new species), Doryphora palustrella, and 

 Depressaria Yeatiana, all collected at Deal during last July 

 and August. 



Mr. Stainton observed that Crambus alpinellus was so named 

 from the earliest captures of the species having been made on 

 the lower parts of the Alps, but that it had since been found 

 on the low sandy ground of North Germany, and its capture 

 at Deal quite agreed with what was now known of the distri- 

 bution of the species in Germany. It was first recorded as a 

 British species by Dr. Knaggs in 1871, from two specimens 

 taken at Southsea by Mr. Moncreaff. Mr. Stainton further 

 observed that he had named Mr. Tutt's new species " blandu- 

 lella" from its similarity to a small maculea, of which one of 

 the best known synonyms was blandella. He also remarked 

 that Deal was a new locality for Doryphora palustrella, which 

 had hitherto only been recorded from Wicken Een and the 

 Norfolk Eens in England, and from the neighbourhood of 

 Stettin on the Continent. 



