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Darwins, rather than by trying to explain facts which, in the 

 absence of such knowledge, seemed to him inexplicable. 



March 5, 1890. 



Henky J. Elwes, Esq., F.L.S., F.Z.S., Vice-President, in 

 in the chair. 



Donations to the Library were announced, and thanks voted 

 to the respective Donors. 



Election of Fellows, 



Mr. G. H. Kenrick, of Whetstone, Somerset Road, Edg- 

 baston, Birmingham ; and the Rt. Hon. Lord Reudlesham, 

 of Reudlesham Hall, Woodbridge, Suffolk, were elected 

 Fellows. 



Kxhihitions, d-c. 



Mr. C. G. Barrett exhibited a number of specimens of 

 Dianthecia carpophaga, Bork., bred by Mr. W. F. H. Bland- 

 ford from larvae collected near Tenby, Pembrokeshire, on 

 flowers of Silene maritima. He remarked that the series 

 included a number of forms intermediate between D. carpo- 

 phaga and D. capsophila, and established the fact that the 

 latter is only a local variety of the former. 



Mr. W. H. B. Fletcher, Mr. Blandford, Mr. M'Lachlan, 

 and the chairman took part in a discussion as to the identity 

 of the supposed species. 



Mr. Barrett further exhibited a specimen of Dianthecia 

 luteago var. Barrcttii, Db., also bred by Mr. Blandford from 

 a larva found at Tenby, and he remarked that Barrettii 

 had not previously been taken in England ; also a long series 

 of forms intermediate between Catoptria scopoliana, Hw., and 

 its small variety ^x/rt'^Zanrt Wilk., collected by Mr. E. Baukes, 

 Mr. Fletcher, Mr. Vine, and others, in Sussex, the Isle of 

 Wight, and Pembrokeshire ; also a specimen of Botys mutu- 

 alis, Zell., — a species widely distributed in Asia and Africa, — 

 taken by Mr. C. S. Gregson near Bolton, Lancashire. 



