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Mr. H. Goss exhibited a specimen of Zyijuina jUipenthUu: 

 var. chnjsanthemi, which he had taken at Rhinefield, in the 

 New Forest, on the 15th July last, when in the company 

 of Mr. George Bryant. Dr. P. B. Mason said this variety 

 was known on the Continent of Europe, and was figured by 

 Hiibner in his ' Sammlung,' a copy of which work he ex- 

 hibited. He added that he possessed a similar specimen 

 of this variety taken by Mr. Nowers in Wyre Forest, Wor- 

 cestershire. Colonel Swinhoe stated that he possessed 

 a similar variety of a species of Syntomis. 



The Rev. Dr. Walker exhibited a number of Diptera, 

 Hymenoptera, and Coleoptera recently collected in Iceland ; 

 also some drawings illustrating the various forms of Crymodes 

 exulis occurring in Iceland which he had shown at the 

 October meeting of the society ; he also exhibited seven 

 varieties of Melanippe thulearia, nine of Coremia vmnitata, and 

 a few of Noctua conflua, illustrating the varied forms of these 

 species occurring in Iceland. Dr. Mason said that the only 

 British specimens of N. cunflua which he had seen resembling 

 the Iceland form of the species were taken at Wolsingham, 

 Durham. 



Mons. A. Wailly exhibited and remarked on a number of 

 Lepidoptera from Japan. The collection comprised the fol- 

 owing species : — Orthoyonia sera, Felder ; Remiyia archesia, 

 Butler; Henninia fumosa, Butl. ; Hermhiia arenosa, Bud.; 

 Hypena stygiana, Butl. ; H. minna, Butl. ; Bocann trlstis, 

 Butl. ; Thalassodes amhiijuu, Butl. ; Abraxas elegans, Butl. ; 

 Parepione lapidea, Butl. ; Platydia casta, Butl. ; Egnasia 

 polybapta, Butl. ; Marmorinia ohscurata, Butl. ; Fseudolo- 

 castra inimica, Butl.; Hydrillodes lentalis, Guen.; Calobochyla 

 mollis, Butl. ; Inuoris tenuis, Butl. ; Pagyda quadrilineata, 

 Butl. ; Notarcha pallidalis Warren ; Pyrausta astrifera, Butl. ; 

 Bocchoris inspersalis, Zell. ; Nothophyle pantherata, Butl. ; 

 Crambus pinellus, Linn. ; Mimorista butyrosa, Butl. ; Steno- 

 meles consocialis, Warren ; Bhynchina plusinides, Butl. ; Dia- 

 semia Uterata, Scop. ; and Cresia siwilis, Butl. Besides these 

 there were eleven species undetermined, which, it was stated, 

 were not represented in the British Museum collections. 



Mr. A. C. Horner exhibited a number of rare species of 



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