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for several years in succession, in collecting A. paphia and 
the form of the female known as valezina in the New Forest, 
and that he had obtained a series of forms intermediate 
between the typical form of the female and the variety 
valezina. 
Mr. H. Goss said that about eighteen years ago he had 
seen a specimen of A. paphia, var. valezina, caught in Ash- 
down Forest, Sussex; but that, with the exception of this 
specimen, he had never seen valezina out of the New Forest. 
The typical form of the species was very abundant in Mon- 
mouthshire, but he believed there was no record of the 
capture of valezina in that county. 
Mr. McLachlan suggested that possibly some entomologists 
might regard the species from Kiukiang referred to by Mr. 
Leech as Argynnis paphia, as not identical with the species 
known by that name in Europe. 
Mr. Champion exhibited about 950 species of Coleoptera 
recently collected by Mr. J. J. Walker, R.N., near Gibraltar. 
Mr. McLachlan called attention to the large number of 
species of water-beetles included in Mr. Walker’s collection. 
Mr. Kirby suggested that the attention of the Imperial 
Institute should be called to the interest and importance 
attaching to the exhibition of local collections of insects from 
British Colonies and possessions. 
Mr. Verrall exhibited living specimens of Aspidomorpha 
sancte-crucis, and another species unnamed, from the caves of 
Elephanta. 
Mr. Slater exhibited specimens of a species of weevil 
which had been doing much damage to maize sent to the 
Colonial Exhibition. 
Paper read, 
Mr. William White read a paper entitled ‘‘ Experiments 
upon the Colour-Relation between the pupe of Pieris rape 
and their immediate surroundings,” which comprised a 
detailed account and discussion of a series of observations 
carried on by Mr. George C. Griffiths at Bristol, at his 
instigation. The various experiments were intended to act 
as a further test of the conclusions arrived at by Mr. E. B. 
