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luxuriant pasturages in which they occur (in August, there is, I 

 believe, nothing to equal these in Europe at the same altitude), 

 the peculiar position of this high lying Lautaret basin 

 (described Ent.Eec.viii., p. 253), and its high summer tempera- 

 ture (for the altitude), all combine to produce an environment, 

 characteristic of an elevation of 2,000 — 4,000 feet, rather than 

 of 7,000 — 8,000 feet, and, as a result, we find the attempt to 

 produce the form usually found at a higher, and that usually 

 produced at a lower, altitude, crowned with a certain amount of 

 success. Mr. Tutt said that, of course, he knew that melamjms 

 and pharte do not normally represent such distinctly low alti- 

 tude and high altitude forms as iphis and satyrion respectively. 

 Two remarks of Frey ("Butterflies of Switzerland") deserved 

 notice. The first is that the female of melavijnis " is only rarely 

 taken." Is this because the females in the districts known to 

 him would have been referred to pharte. The second is to the 

 effect tha,t pharte is "widely distributed in damp spots within 

 the tree line (4,000—6,000 feet)," a description which would 

 apply to every place (except the Lautaret locality) in 

 which he (Mr. Tutt) had taken melampus. 



Mr. Elwes observed that though all the continental butter- 

 flies had been so long studied by European entomologists, he 

 did not think the form exhibited by Mr. Tutt had been hitherto 

 noticed. He considered that Mr. Tutt had made out his case, 

 and he agreed in the conclusions at which he had arrived. 

 Mr. McLachlan, Mr. Jacoby, and Professor Meldola con- 

 tinued the discussion, 



Mr. E. Ernest Green exhibited a typical specimen of 

 Ephyra omicronaria, together with what he believed to be a 

 remarkable melanic variety of the same species, taken by Dr. 

 Dudley Wright at Pegwell Bay, near Kamsgate, in September 

 last. Some of the Fellows present, after an examination of 

 the specimen, expressed an opinion that it was a variety of 

 an Acidalia, and not of Ephyra oviicronaria. 



Mr. Goss stated that Mr. Harry Fisher, the botanist to the 

 Jackson-Harmsworth expedition, had returned to England. 

 He hoped that he would have been present at the meeting to 

 exhibit a few minute Diptera and other insects which he had 

 collected in Franz Josef Land. Mr. McLachlan made some 



