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from the Essex Marshes. He also exhibited the singular pupeo 

 of A. Bennettii. 



Mr. Howard Vaughan exhibited a series of several hundred 

 bred specimens of Peronea hnstlana, showing the innumerable 

 varieties of the species. He also exhibited, on behalf of 

 Mr. Sydney Webb, of Dover, an interesting series of Cidarin 

 sujf'umata, with especial regard to the progeny of particular 

 females, the parent and the produce of the eggs kid by her being 

 carefully separated. 



Pajjers read, dr. 

 Mr. Howard Vaughan read the following notes on the subject 

 of tlie specimens of Cidaria Hujf'iniutta exhibited, communicated 

 by Mr. Sydney Webb, of Dover: — 



" Notes OH Cidaria suffumata, with an account of an attempt to 

 rear some of the more peculiar forms ivhich the Dover 

 specimena assume. 



" The larvae from which the accompanying specimens were 

 bred were severally kept apart, although under similiar conditions 

 of aspect and atmosphere. One person attended to them, the 

 cages were duly labelled, and every care taken that no error of 

 observation should in any way arise. 



"Description of the Parents, dr. 



" No. 1. — A not uncommon form of the insect as taken at 

 Dover. The ground colour is a little lighter than ordinary, which 

 causes the stripe beyond the central band to show conspicuously, 

 the more so in consequence of its intersecting transverse lines not 

 being very distinct. The band in the middle of the wing is of a 

 slightly darker shade than usual. The moth laid 38 eggs in all, 

 and died the fourth night after capture. 



" Nos. '2 and 3. — Ordinary typical suffumata : they laid 

 respectively 37 and 45 eggs, and died the third and fifth days 

 after capture. The young larvae of these were not kept separate, 

 and the results were for convenience simply booked as No. 2. 



"No. 4. — A very beautiful specimen of an unusually rare form, 

 with a pale ground colour but dark central band, the tips of the 

 wings with i'ew markings, and colour of tlie hind wing in a strong 



