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November 2, 1892. 



Frederick DuCane Godman, Esq., F.R.S., President, in 

 the chair. 



Donations to the Library were announced and thanks voted 

 to the respective donors. 



A Lantern for the Soeiefij. 



The President announced that a new Oxy-hydrogen lantern 

 had been purchased for the Society, tlie cost of which had 

 been generously defrayed by Mr. H. J. Elwes, Prof. R. 

 Meldola, Mr. R. McLachlan, and Mr. E. B. Poulton. 



Exhibitions, dr. 



Mr. S. Stevens exhibited, for Mr. J. Harrison, of Barnsley, 

 and read notes on, a beautiful series of An-tia luhricipeda var. 

 radiata, which had been bred by Mr. Harrison this year. 

 Mr. Harrison stated in his notes that in the spring of 1891 he 

 oflfered ova of Daaypolia templi for distribution ; at the same 

 time he asked for a few pupae oi Arctia lubriei/ieda in return ; his 

 intention being to try and pair them, on emergence, with some 

 Huddersfield forms of Arctia vtendiva, which he knew would 

 be out about the same time. The mendica having been in- 

 bred two or three seasons, he had a doubt about continuing 

 the strain. The attempt proved a failure, and he lost the 

 mendica. He said that he had two lots of luhricipeda pup^e of 

 about twenty each sent him, one from London, and the other 

 from Lincolnshire, and all that came out were of the ordinary 

 form, except one female specimen of the var. radiata. This he 

 sacrificed to pair with one of the ordinary males, simply as an 

 experiment. The result was about 500 ova, part of which he 

 kept for himself, and the rest he distributed. The batch of eggs 

 which he kept produced about 160 images in 1892, and of 

 these about one-third resembled the female parent (J. luhrici- 

 peda var. radiata), one-third partly resembled the male parent 

 [A. luhricipeda type) and partly resembled the female; and 

 the remainder resembled the male parent, 



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