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Mr. G. T. Porritt exhibited two fine varieties of Abraxas 

 grossularlata, bred by Mr. George Jackson during the past 

 summer from York larvte ; also, on behalf of Mr. T. Baxter, 

 a curious Noctua taken on the sandhills at St. Anue's-on-Sea 

 on August 20th last, and concerning which a difference of 

 opinion existed as to whether it was a melanic form of Ai/miis 

 cursoria or of Caradrina cubicularis. He also exhibited a small 

 dark form of Oiyijia antiqua, which had occurred in some 

 numbers at Longridge, near Preston. 



Mr. A. Eland Shaw exhibited a specimen of Ilecostcthvs 

 grossns, Linn., taken lately at Ir stead, in the Norfolk-broad 

 district. He stated that this was the first recorded capture 

 of this species in Britain since 1884. 



Mr. C. G. Barrett exhibited a specimen of Si/riclhus alveus, 

 caught in Norfolk, about the year 1860, by the Eev. J. H. 

 Marsh ; a beautiful variety of Anjynnis euplirosyne, caught 

 this year near Godalming by Mr. Oswald Latter; and a series 

 of varieties of Ennomos angidaria, bred from a female taken at 

 Nuuhead. 



Mr. P. Crowley exhibited a specimen of Zu'jana fiUpendnhe 

 var. chrijmnthemi, taken last August at Riddlesdown, near 

 Croydon, by Mr. Murton Holmes. 



Lord Walsingham sent for exhibition several specimens of 

 larvae of Sphinx pinastri and Aphomia sociella, preserved by 

 himself, which were intended for presentation to the British 

 Museum. The larvae of 8. pinastri had been sent to him by 

 Lord Rendlesham, who obtained them from ova laid by a 

 female which he had captured in Suffolk last August. 



Papers, dc, read. 



Mr. de Niceville communicated a paper entitled "Notes 

 on a protean Indian butterfly, Kupltea (StictopUea) Jiarrisii, 

 Felder"; and Captain E. Y. Watson exhibited, on behalf of 

 Mr. de Niceville, the specimens referred to in this paper. 

 Colonel Swinhoe, Mr. Hampson, Mr. Poulton, and the Chair- 

 man took part in the discussion which ensued. 



Mr. W. Bateson read a paper entitled " On the Variation 

 in the Colours of Cocoons and Pupaj of Lepidoptera ; further 

 Experiments." In this paper the author gave an account of 



