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Still from larviE fed exclusively ou beech, which he said 

 appeared to be the usual food of the species in Devonshire, 

 instead of hazel or oak. Mr. Barrett also exhibited, for 

 Mr. Sydney Webb, a number of varieties of Arge (jahdhea, 

 Lasiommata mecjcBra, Hipparchia tithimus, and Ccenonympha 

 pamphUus, from the neighbourhood of Dover. 



The Kev. J. Seymour St. John exhibited a variety of the 

 female of Ihjhcniia progeminnria, taken at Clapton in March 

 last, in which the partially developed wings were equally 

 divided in point of colour, the base being extremely dark and 

 the outer portion of the wing very pale. 



The Rev. Canon Fowler made some remarks on the subject 

 of protective resemblance ; he said his attention had been 

 recently called to the fact that certain species of KaUima 

 apparently lose their protective habit in some localities, and 

 sit with their wings open, and tliat Dr. A. R. Wallace had 

 informed him that he had heard of a species of KaUima sitting 

 upside down on stalks, and thus, in another way, abandoning 

 its protective habits. It therefore seemed that when a species 

 is so well protected that it becomes very abundant, it may 

 with impunity, in some localities, lose a portion of the pro- 

 tection by change of habits. Mr. W. L. Distant said that a 

 species of butterfly in South Africa, which when its wings 

 were vertically closed resembled the reddish soil on which it 

 settled, in the Transvaal rested with open wings on quartzite 

 rock, which the upper surface of the wings protectively 

 resembled. Mr. Barrett, Mr. McLachlan, Mr. Jacoby, Mr. 

 Champion, Mr. H. Goss, Canon Fowler, and Mr. Frohawk 

 continued the discussion. 



Mr. Goss informed the meeting that, in pursuance of a 

 resolution of the Council passed in March last, he and 

 Mr. Elwes had represented the Society at the recent Govern- 

 ment enquiry, as to the safety and suitability of the proposed 

 Rifle Range in the New Forest, held at Lyndhurst by the 

 Hon. T. W. H. Pelham, ou the 20th, 21st, 22nd and 23rd 

 inst., and that they had given evidence at such enquiry, and 

 addressed a large meeting of Counsel, Solicitors, War Ufiice 

 officials, Verderers, and Commoners. 



